1. VuFind Digital Libraries à la Carte International Ticer School 2009 Tilburg University 31 July, 2009 Benoit PAUWELS Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) Brussels

2. Overview of functionality Technical overview VuFind @ ULB Agenda

3. VuFind is a library resource portal –designed and developed by Villanova University’s Falvey Memorial Library –open source; web based –project leader: Andrew Nagy In the first place conceived as a new OPAC experience –Export/Import MARC records from ILS into VuFind –ILS specific drivers for holding information and availability VuFind can be used as a portal solution for all library resources –library catalog, article databases, digital library, institutional repository & bibliography, and other library collections and resources http://www.vufind.org VuFind

4. Customizable interface: localization and branding –Uses Yahoo User Interface CSS, PHP Smarty templates, XML/XSL, AJAX, Javascript ILS specific ‘drivers’ for holding information and availability status –Voyager, Aleph, III, SirsiDynix, Koha, Evergreen Faceted search experience “More like this” (algorithmically generated suggestions) Save resource to organized lists Browse Internationalization Functionality

5. Persistent URLs (bookmarkable searches) RSS feed per search query OAI syndication CiteThis, EmailThis, TextThis Export record to Endnote, Refworks Social features: tagging, comments Enrichment: –book covers: Amazon, Syndetic, Google Books –book item reviews: Amazon, Syndetic –author biography: Wikipedia Functionality

6. Customizable interface: localization and branding Uses Yahoo User Interface CSS, PHP Smarty templates, XML/XSL, AJAX, Javascript

7. ILS specific ‘drivers’ for holding information and availability status Voyager, Aleph, III, SirsiDynix, Koha, Evergreen

8. Faceted search experience

9. “More like this” (algorithmically generated suggestions)

10. Save resource to organized lists

11. Browse

12. Internationalization

13. Social bookmarks

14. Zotero compatible (COINS)

15. Persistent URLs (bookmarkable searches)

17. RSS feed per search query

18. CiteThis, EmailThis, TextThis

19. Export record to Endnote, Refworks

20. Social features: tagging, comments

21. Enrichment: - book covers: Amazon, Syndetic, Google Books - book item reviews: Amazon, Syndetic

22. Linux, Solaris, Windows Uses Apache SOLR, an open source search engine based on Lucene Apache HTTP Server 2.2 or later PHP 5.1.0 or later, Smarty templates XSL, Javascript, CSS, YUI MySQL 4.1 or later Java J2SE JDK 1.5 or later GNU Aspell Library (optional spell checker) Technical overview

25. Export MARC records from ILS Use VuFind import facilty –Store each record in a separate file –Index in Lucene through SOLR web service Delivered SOLR schema.xml for MARC records Searching –VuFind communicates with Lucene through SOLR web service –Returns unique identifier for records –Data of records fetched from filesystem (XSL) Technical overview

26. Keep VuFind functionality Don’t keep: –MARC based –Filesystem –Import utility; rather OAI harvest VuFind @ ULB

27. Metadata Harvester Indexer VuFind OAI-PMH MySQL Metadata JDBC Lucene Lucene doc SamburuSamburu SOLR

28. Metadata Harvester Indexer VuFind OAI-PMH MySQL Metadata JDBC Lucene Lucene doc SamburuSamburu SOLR Metadata exchange format Compound Object DIDL / MODS (*) DIDL/MODS XML record stored as-is in MySQL field didl2solr.xsl transform DIDL/MODS XML record into Lucene document, according to specific schema.xml SOLR config file contains complete DIDL/MODS record solr2brief.xsl solr2full.xsl transform field into HTML (*) http://homepages.ulb.ac.be/~bpauwels/NEEO/WP5/http://homepages.ulb.ac.be/~bpauwels/NEEO/WP5/ WP5 Technical guidelines.pdf/

29. DI-fusion –Institutional library resources: IR, etheses repo, digithèque, [ catalog, iconothèque ] BICTel –Regional e-theses repository Unicat –Belgian national virtual catalog VuFind @ ULB