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

[Pascal Vincent Calarco]

Thanks much, Mike!

  Best,

  - pascal

Mike Rylander wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 12:27 PM, Pascal Vincent Calarco <pcalarco at nd.edu> wrote:
>   
>> 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.
>>     
>
> It's not really feasible to use Evergreen as a pure discovery layer.
> The search infrastructure isn't built to be a standalone system, and
> batch import/update of records and holdings is not something we've
> optimized for, since the goal is an entire ILS.  I'll go out on a limb
> here and say that the same is true of Koha, as it's designed to be a
> full ILS.
>
>   
>>  Has anyone tried this, how hard is it, and any other information you
>>  might suggest is most welcome.
>>
>>     
>
> My suggestion would be to look closely at VUFind, Blacklight and even
> FacBackOPAC ( http://code.google.com/p/fac-back-opac/ -- built by our
> very own Dan Scott).
>
> Hope that helps!
>
> --miker
>
>   
>>  Many thanks in advance!
>>
>>   - pascal
>>