From: Till K. <kin...@gm...> - 2010-01-29 12:56:45
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After some shabby public prototypes we now have a "live" version of our VuFind based "Suchkiste" at http://finden.nationallizenzen.de/ . Suchkiste is a discovery interface for digital contents licensed under the DFG Nationallizenzen[*] program. Currently we have some 21 million metadata records and about 400.000 full texts in our index, which covers only a part of the contents bought so far. The index will grow as we get more data... Suchkiste is currently based on VuFind 1.0RC2. We developed a new user interface as a theme. Basic concept of the UI is a "infinite table" view of the data (was recommended by consulting HCI experts). We are looking into ways to expand that concept (eg. by giving users an option to make "snapshots" of the table in certain states, so they can define there search result individually and work on it). Let's see... This thing isn't finished yet, we just started :-) We did some changes under the VuFind hood, too: We kicked out YUI and use some jQuery stuff. We need to control access to parts of the index so we implemented a "rights management solution" (hmm, big words :-) based on Shibboleth. The Shibboleth authentication part is already part of mainline VuFind (though needs an update, will soon be made). We will need to look into the rights management stuff to decide if there is something to generalize and push back to mainline VuFind. At the moment that is highly specific to our needs. Till [*] DFG Nationallizenzen is a funding program by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) that aims at licensing digital content (mainly publication backfile archives) from commercial publishers and provide free access for any German researcher. The development of Suchkiste is also sponsored by DFG to enhance accessibility of Nationallizenzen content. -- http://twitter.com/tillk |
From: Till K. <kin...@gm...> - 2010-01-29 13:10:50
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Oh, I forgot to add: Thanks to all that contributed to VuFind so far! And of course to those hacking solrmarc and Solr! A toast on you... This great software made it very easy to build Suchkiste. Till -- http://twitter.com/tillk |
From: Till K. <kin...@gm...> - 2010-01-29 14:10:12
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Demian Katz schrieb: > Congratulations on the launch, and thanks once again for all of your contributions back to the public codebase! It's good to see that code of shared usefulness can come even from such a heavily-customized project. In the end it's not that much customized (technically). Of course we built an (almost) complete new template set. But that's quite small by now, because we only use part of the VuFind functionality yet (eg. no personalization features like lists, saved searches, tags etc.). We want to integrate more of that in our user interface in the next months... In the VuFind core we needed to change mainly SearchObject.php and Solr.php to handle some custom searches and add the "rights management stuff" (an additional PHP class that is called at some places and some changes in Solr.php to add search parameters on every query). And we did a few changes to handle additional AJAX requests. It was my goal to stay as close to mainline VuFind as possible... Nevertheless I already fear the pains when the day comes to merge our branch with the changes in the current code base :-) Till -- http://twitter.com/tillk |
From: Eoghan Ó C. <eog...@gm...> - 2010-01-29 16:16:27
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Congratulations! The performance over 21 million records is really impressive! Enjoy the celebrations, Eoghan On 29 January 2010 14:10, Till Kinstler <kin...@gm...> wrote: > Demian Katz schrieb: > > Congratulations on the launch, and thanks once again for all of your > contributions back to the public codebase! It's good to see that code of > shared usefulness can come even from such a heavily-customized project. > > In the end it's not that much customized (technically). Of course we > built an (almost) complete new template set. But that's quite small by > now, because we only use part of the VuFind functionality yet (eg. no > personalization features like lists, saved searches, tags etc.). We want > to integrate more of that in our user interface in the next months... > In the VuFind core we needed to change mainly SearchObject.php and > Solr.php to handle some custom searches and add the "rights management > stuff" (an additional PHP class that is called at some places and some > changes in Solr.php to add search parameters on every query). And we did > a few changes to handle additional AJAX requests. It was my goal to stay > as close to mainline VuFind as possible... Nevertheless I already fear > the pains when the day comes to merge our branch with the changes in the > current code base :-) > > Till > > -- > http://twitter.com/tillk > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation > Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the > business > Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts > Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com > _______________________________________________ > VuFind-General mailing list > VuF...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vufind-general > |
From: Demian K. <dem...@vi...> - 2010-01-29 14:47:13
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Congratulations on the launch, and thanks once again for all of your contributions back to the public codebase! It's good to see that code of shared usefulness can come even from such a heavily-customized project. - Demian > -----Original Message----- > From: Till Kinstler [mailto:kin...@gm...] > Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 8:11 AM > To: vuf...@li... > Subject: Re: [VuFind-General] Suchkiste is live > > Oh, I forgot to add: > > Thanks to all that contributed to VuFind so far! And of course to those > hacking solrmarc and Solr! A toast on you... > This great software made it very easy to build Suchkiste. > > Till > > -- > http://twitter.com/tillk > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------- > The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation > Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the > business > Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term > contracts > Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call > away. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com > _______________________________________________ > VuFind-General mailing list > VuF...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vufind-general |