[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen access via Google?

[Walz, Jennifer]

All -

 Just FYI.   If you are already an OCLC customer, you do not need to pay anything additional for Worldcat local.   And thereby, you do not need to pay anything for the basic discovery service that is coming.   You DO have to pay for hosted data and additional services to be added.  

  We have been on worldcat local for quite a while.  http://kinlawlibrary.worldcat.org/    I am not looking forward to the discovery product, but that is a discussion for another listserv....

Jennifer
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From: Open-ils-general [mailto:open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Kathy Lussier
Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2015 10:44 AM
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Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen access via Google?

Welcome to the list Marc!

>
> I don't know whether an Evergreen site has yet done this, but FWIW, 
> another approach is to sign up for OCLC's WorldCat Local (to be 
> rebranded WorldCat Discovery) service.  Among the (apparently
> less-known) features included is web-scale discovery.  OCLC makes its 
> records discoverable via Google and other search services. These in 
> turn -- via WCL -- are linked in real-time to availability information 
> in subscribers' ILSes.

That might be true, but I'm perplexed as to why a library would pay for this discoverability through WorldCat Local when they already get it out of the box with Evergreen?

Of course, there might be other reasons for signing up for WorldCat Local, but I think the work Dan has done has put Evergreen, Koha, and VuFind ahead of the pack in this area.

Kathy

On 04/09/2015 09:15 AM, Marc Truitt wrote:
> On 2015-04-09 1005, Ben Shum wrote:
>>> That all said, I suppose one potential "danger" of having bots 
>>> freely scan over your site is that if they get too busy with 
>>> indexing your site's contents, they can overwhelm and cause 
>>> interruptions in your ability to use Evergreen.  This happened to us 
>>> at least once before, where some indexer in China scanned our whole 
>>> catalog and tried to index every page causing us to run out of 
>>> system resources trying to serve up all the content it was requesting.
>
> Disclaimer:  I'm a lurker who is very interested in and hopeful for 
> Evergreen's success.  Our site currently uses a proprietary ILS.
>
> I don't know whether an Evergreen site has yet done this, but FWIW, 
> another approach is to sign up for OCLC's WorldCat Local (to be 
> rebranded WorldCat Discovery) service.  Among the (apparently
> less-known) features included is web-scale discovery.  OCLC makes its 
> records discoverable via Google and other search services. These in 
> turn -- via WCL -- are linked in real-time to availability information 
> in subscribers' ILSes.
>
> cheers,
>
> - mt
>

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