Re: [VuFind-General] Vufind and koha

[Duimovich, G. <George.Duimovich@NRCan-RNCan.gc.ca>]

FWIW, our interest in putting vuFind (or other) on top of Evergreen is that Lucene+SOLR-based PACs offer us the opportunity to explore single search interfaces to our various local databases (photographs, digital repositories, etc.), but also including the possibility for integrating subscription-based and other external sources (e.g. http://www.mail-archive.com/cod...@li.../msg05145.html. 

So we have a number of non-MARC bibliographic and other databases that we'd eventually like to see searchable together through a single search, and so the ability to offer up sources as separate facets is appealing, etc., as is the possibility of serving up these separate databases with a single search toolbox working in the background. As a result of a merger of 3 library networks, we have multiple development environments to maintain for a variety of databases indexing services, and is pretty challenging to provide a single search for them all.

George Duimovich
NRCan Library / Bibliothèque de RNCan


-----Original Message-----
From: Jon Gorman [mailto:jon...@gm...] 
Sent: June 16, 2009 13:23
To: Far...@am...
Cc: vuf...@li...
Subject: Re: [VuFind-General] Vufind and koha

On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 3:11 AM, <Far...@am...> wrote:
>
> I'd really like to try out vufind for our currently uncatalogued small 
> library. As we don't have a budget for an LMS we will have to go for 
> something like koha or evergreen - is there any chance we'll be able 
> to use one of these with vufind any time soon?


I have to admit that I'm curious why you want to put VuFind on top of Koha or Evergreen?  Is there some feature that the VuFind interface offers that you don't think is easily obtainable with the catalog interface that comes with Koha or Evergreen?  I haven't extensively used either of the latter, so I'm not entirely familiar with what they offer.  Or is it just a desire to keep the look and feel independent from the underlying system in case you have to switch again?  (Or to get a jump ahead on interface development before you choose your ILS and maybe use that in determining the ILS you want?)

Jon Gorman

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