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#access2009pei – Bess Sadler and Jon Jiras – Next Gen OPACs – part 2
2 Oct 09
Jon Jiras, Rochester Institute of Tech
eXtensible Catalog
XC is a modular set of OS tools, can use any part that’s useful. Facilitates the resource discovery piece, but also has core metadata management piece. V1 scheduled for January 2010 release.
faceted, frbrized user interface; customizable, a web app framework for library data. metadata tools. connectivity tools: OAI and NCIP
interface will be a Drupal module. Can include traditional, digital, and web resources. Can use interface as a platform for library website.
Metadata toolkit can aggregate data from many sources, normalize MARC and DC data for indexing using XC schema (RDA); there will be a web interface for staff to tweak, run reports, configure, etc.
Connectivity: XC OAI toolkit, can maintain a synchronised copy of repository metadata. XC NCIP toolkit allows ILS circulation features in XC and access authentication through ILS or LDAP.
Posted by pzed on October 2, 2009 at 2.45pm
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