[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Can Evergreen be used as a stand-alone Resource Discovery environment?

[Don Hamilton]

Hi Pascal.
 
I had a quick look at this a few months back, shortly before our 3-library consortium decided on Primo. The biggest drawback I found was the problem of loading lots of records in one big hit. I think I've seen discussion of late on the -DEV list that shows some improvements in this area, but I was stuck loading batches of (at most) 40,000 records at a time, and didn't see a way to easily, regularly, automate the loading of our 4,000,000 bib records.
 
don
 
ps... as I finished typing this, I saw Mike's response...  ++mike 

 

>>> Pascal Vincent Calarco <pcalarco at nd.edu> 04-Mar-2008 12:27 PM >>>

Hi folks --

Hopefully this hasn't been asked a lot before on the list; I scanned the 
threads in the archive and didn't see anything obvious, so here goes.

We have a small, four-library consortium that is looking for a separate 
resource discovery environment to supplement our existing Aleph 18.01 
ILS.  We aren't looking for a replacement ILS at this point.  Other 
solutions we are evaluating include VUFind, Primo, Endeca, Encore, 
Koha.  What is not obvious from looking at the Evergreen information 
that is available is whether it is easy to strip off the indexing engine 
and the web interface, and feed Evergreen a variety of MARC, DC, and 
other data.

Has anyone tried this, how hard is it, and any other information you 
might suggest is most welcome. 

Many thanks in advance!

  - pascal

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