[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Bibliomation and MassLNC Sponsoring Search Enhancements Development in Evergreen

[Suzannah]

Bibliomation <http://biblio.org/> and MassLNC 
<http://masslnc.cwmars.org/> are sponsoring development of search 
enhancements in Evergreen Open Source ILS <http://evergreen-ils.org/>. 
Equinox Software <http://www.esilibrary.com/esi/> will be spearheading 
the development project.  Ultimately, the goal of this development 
project is to make the following browse functions available in the 
catalog: alphabetical author, title and subject browse.  In order to 
make this functionality possible, the following enhancements will need 
to be made:  improvements to QueryParser and MARC-standard 
inter-authority linking.  Improvements will be made to the QueryParser 
framework and the Evergreen QueryParser driver to allow new search 
syntax.  Next, Equinox developers will implement MARC-standard 
inter-authority linking, similar to the development of 
bibliographic-authority linking, in order to support the see-from and 
see-also components.  Finally, with this infrastructure in place, 
Equinox developers will be able to develop an integrated bibliographic 
and in-use authority browse interface.  The browse axes will be 
configurable.  This new development will build upon the browse 
capability already in place.  Additional authority-related information 
will be extracted and stored in order to automatically provide 
authority-enhanced term matching. Browse sorting and display will be 
based on separate values, so that initial articles may or may not be 
displayed, per the configurations of the global setting per class 
(title, author, subject).

It is anticipated that the coding for this project will be completed by 
the end of March 2013 and submitted to launchpad 
<https://launchpad.net/evergreen> for Evergreen Community review and 
approval.  Once the code has been reviewed and approved, it will be 
eligible for inclusion in the next major release of Evergreen.  Thank 
you to Bibliomation and MassLNC for sponsoring this development.


-- 
Suzannah Lipscomb
Project Manager
Equinox Software, Inc.
877. OPEN. ILS (877. 673. 6457)
Direct:  770-709-5590

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