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

[Galen Charlton]

Hi Pascal,

On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 12:19 PM, Mike Rylander <mrylander at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 12:27 PM, Pascal Vincent Calarco <pcalarco at nd.edu> wrote:
>  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.

To go out on a limb as well, since Koha was mentioned, I'll add that
there is a sponsored development project underway to allow Koha to be
used as an OPAC for another ILS.  This would work by periodically
loading updated bib and item information from the source ILS.  It will
also integrate with some services provided by the source ILS to handle
patron empowerment features.  Of course, this is a work in progress,
and not available right now.

>  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).

I concur with this suggestion.

Regards,

Galen
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