Re: [VuFind-General] Colorado State University VuFind instance goes public

[Eoghan Ó C. <eog...@gm...>]

Hi Dennis,Cogratulations. I had a look at your beta site a week or two ago
and was impressed with the new features. Great to see Vufind working as a
broader discovery layer over digital repository and website etc.

All the best,
Eoghan

2009/9/15 Greg Pendlebury <Gre...@us...>

>  Hi Dennis,
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> I really like the features you’ve implemented. Should provide a few mores
> ideas for our librarians no doubt J
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> Out of curiosity is your ILMS (Millennium presumably?) backed into Oracle
> or III’s proprietary database?
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> *Greg Pendlebury*
> Electronic Services Officer (Systems Team)
> Division of Academic Information Services
> University of Southern Queensland
> Phone: +61 7 4631 1501
> Fax: +61 7 4631 1841
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> *From:* Ogg,Dennis [mailto:Den...@co...]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, 15 September 2009 2:54 AM
> *To:* vuf...@li...
> *Subject:* [VuFind-General] Colorado State University VuFind instance goes
> public
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> At Colorado State University, we have recently gone live with our VuFind
> instance.  Several features that we have implemented may be of interest.
> First, in addition to our catalog, we indexed one of our digital
> repositories and the Library's web pages.  We now have two types of
> facets:   those that are applicable to all silos, and those that are
> silo-specific.  For example, title and author relate to all silos, whereas
> call number subjects and digital collections are specific to a particular
> silo.  We’ve implemented full-text indexes for our web pages using Nutch.
> We also created full-text indexes for digital repository documents using
> ExLibris’s APIs for DigiTool.  Catalog availability data is being extracted
> from our Innovative ILS using Z39.50.
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>                 http://discovery.library.colostate.edu/
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> There have been a few issues that have caused us to deviate somewhat from
> the main trunk of VuFind.  The first of these was working with the
> Innovative catalog.   Automating data extraction and indexing, interpreting
> local catalog record customization, and retrieving availability information
> were big challenges. Substantial effort was also spent on adding the digital
> repository and web pages to our indexes.  Our library staff also provided
> various requests and restrictions.
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> Since we were very busy trying to get this implementation ready by the
> start of fall semester, we haven't been as active on the VuFind list as we
> would have liked.  However, we have been monitoring the list and have tried
> to help those people where we could offline, especially those with
> Innovative systems.  We will be working on a document in the near future
> that will attempt to list the issues we have encountered, describe what we
> did to solve them for our implementation, and hopefully present ideas for
> more generic solutions.
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> Dennis C. Ogg, Interim Coordinator
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> Research and Development Services
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> Colorado State University Libraries
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> Fort Collins, C0  80523-1019
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> 970.491.4071
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> Dennis.Ogg@ColoState.EDU
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