From: Demian K. <dem...@vi...> - 2011-03-22 18:19:25
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Given the widespread adoption of Drupal, it's not surprising that people keep asking whether there is a VuFind plug-in available for the CMS. This was a topic of some discussion at last year's VuFind 2.0 summit. I still remain unconvinced that there's a sensible way to do this, at least beyond something simplistic like a search box generator, but since the subject keeps coming up, I thought I would poll the list... Are there any Drupal developers out there, or even anyone using Drupal and VuFind in conjunction? I would be interested in talking to someone familiar with the Drupal platform to see if there's anything we can do to make VuFind more Drupal-friendly without actually having to rebuild the whole thing. - Demian |
From: Mark N. <mn...@tu...> - 2011-03-23 10:32:43
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I've been building some APIs for VuFind that encapsulate some of the search functionality and patron functionality to make them easier to reuse within other applications. Depending on how libraries wanted to integrate Drupal and VuFind we could use some of this functionality to build Drupal blocks that contain information from VuFind. We could also display information from Drupal within VuFind. I do Drupal development in addition to my work with VuFind and I've written a couple of books on Drupal. If anyone is interested in helping to define a scope for integration of Drupal and VuFind or in sponsoring development of the integration, I would be happy to work on a project to bring the two together. - Mark On 3/22/2011 12:19 PM, Demian Katz wrote: > > Given the widespread adoption of Drupal, it's not surprising that > people keep asking whether there is a VuFind plug-in available for the > CMS. This was a topic of some discussion at last year's VuFind 2.0 > summit. I still remain unconvinced that there's a sensible way to do > this, at least beyond something simplistic like a search box > generator, but since the subject keeps coming up, I thought I would > poll the list... Are there any Drupal developers out there, or even > anyone using Drupal and VuFind in conjunction? I would be interested > in talking to someone familiar with the Drupal platform to see if > there's anything we can do to make VuFind more Drupal-friendly without > actually having to rebuild the whole thing. > > - Demian > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Enable your software for Intel(R) Active Management Technology to meet the > growing manageability and security demands of your customers. Businesses > are taking advantage of Intel(R) vPro (TM) technology - will your software > be a part of the solution? Download the Intel(R) Manageability Checker > today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmar > > > _______________________________________________ > Vufind-tech mailing list > Vuf...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vufind-tech |
From: Mark N. <mdn...@gm...> - 2011-03-22 23:10:52
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I've been building some APIs for VuFind that encapsulate some of the search functionality and patron functionality to make them easier to reuse within other applications. Depending on how libraries wanted to integrate Drupal and VuFind we could use some of this functionality to build Drupal blocks that contain information from VuFind. We could also display information from Drupal within VuFind. I do Drupal development in addition to my work with VuFind and I've written a couple of books on Drupal. If anyone is interested in helping to define a scope for integration of Drupal and VuFind or in sponsoring development of the integration, I would be happy to work on a project to bring the two together. - Mark On 3/22/2011 12:19 PM, Demian Katz wrote: > > Given the widespread adoption of Drupal, it's not surprising that > people keep asking whether there is a VuFind plug-in available for the > CMS. This was a topic of some discussion at last year's VuFind 2.0 > summit. I still remain unconvinced that there's a sensible way to do > this, at least beyond something simplistic like a search box > generator, but since the subject keeps coming up, I thought I would > poll the list... Are there any Drupal developers out there, or even > anyone using Drupal and VuFind in conjunction? I would be interested > in talking to someone familiar with the Drupal platform to see if > there's anything we can do to make VuFind more Drupal-friendly without > actually having to rebuild the whole thing. > > - Demian > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Enable your software for Intel(R) Active Management Technology to meet the > growing manageability and security demands of your customers. Businesses > are taking advantage of Intel(R) vPro (TM) technology - will your software > be a part of the solution? Download the Intel(R) Manageability Checker > today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmar > > > _______________________________________________ > Vufind-tech mailing list > Vuf...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vufind-tech |
From: Demian K. <dem...@vi...> - 2011-03-23 12:47:02
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It's great news that we've got someone in the community with detailed knowledge of both VuFind and Drupal. I'll definitely share your name the next time there's a serious inquiry about VuFind/Drupal integration. In the meantime, if you want to share any of your API code, I would definitely be happy to take a look and see if it can be added to the trunk so others can benefit. thanks, Demian From: Mark Noble [mailto:mdn...@gm...] Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2011 7:11 PM To: Demian Katz Cc: vuf...@li... Subject: Re: [VuFind-Tech] Drupal and VuFind I've been building some APIs for VuFind that encapsulate some of the search functionality and patron functionality to make them easier to reuse within other applications. Depending on how libraries wanted to integrate Drupal and VuFind we could use some of this functionality to build Drupal blocks that contain information from VuFind. We could also display information from Drupal within VuFind. I do Drupal development in addition to my work with VuFind and I've written a couple of books on Drupal. If anyone is interested in helping to define a scope for integration of Drupal and VuFind or in sponsoring development of the integration, I would be happy to work on a project to bring the two together. - Mark On 3/22/2011 12:19 PM, Demian Katz wrote: Given the widespread adoption of Drupal, it's not surprising that people keep asking whether there is a VuFind plug-in available for the CMS. This was a topic of some discussion at last year's VuFind 2.0 summit. I still remain unconvinced that there's a sensible way to do this, at least beyond something simplistic like a search box generator, but since the subject keeps coming up, I thought I would poll the list... Are there any Drupal developers out there, or even anyone using Drupal and VuFind in conjunction? I would be interested in talking to someone familiar with the Drupal platform to see if there's anything we can do to make VuFind more Drupal-friendly without actually having to rebuild the whole thing. - Demian ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enable your software for Intel(R) Active Management Technology to meet the growing manageability and security demands of your customers. Businesses are taking advantage of Intel(R) vPro (TM) technology - will your software be a part of the solution? Download the Intel(R) Manageability Checker today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmar _______________________________________________ Vufind-tech mailing list Vuf...@li...<mailto:Vuf...@li...> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vufind-tech |
From: John C. H. <ho...@pa...> - 2011-03-28 13:32:17
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Mark, The library website templates that HSLC and Evanced are developing for the PA Office of Commonwealth Libraries are also based on Drupal. Hopefully, you'll see a jump in PA libraries using Drupal after they are released this Spring. Since we're putting together a VuFind/Evergreen system for nearly 40 libraries in PA as well, there should be good bit of overlap between the Drupal and VuFind communities here. J > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Demian Katz <mailto:dem...@vi...> > March 23, 2011 8:46 AM > > > It's great news that we've got someone in the community with detailed > knowledge of both VuFind and Drupal. I'll definitely share your name > the next time there's a serious inquiry about VuFind/Drupal > integration. In the meantime, if you want to share any of your API > code, I would definitely be happy to take a look and see if it can be > added to the trunk so others can benefit. > > thanks, > > Demian > > *From:*Mark Noble [mailto:mdn...@gm...] > *Sent:* Tuesday, March 22, 2011 7:11 PM > *To:* Demian Katz > *Cc:* vuf...@li... > *Subject:* Re: [VuFind-Tech] Drupal and VuFind > > I've been building some APIs for VuFind that encapsulate some of the > search functionality and patron functionality to make them easier to > reuse within other applications. Depending on how libraries wanted to > integrate Drupal and VuFind we could use some of this functionality to > build Drupal blocks that contain information from VuFind. We could > also display information from Drupal within VuFind. > > I do Drupal development in addition to my work with VuFind and I've > written a couple of books on Drupal. If anyone is interested in > helping to define a scope for integration of Drupal and VuFind or in > sponsoring development of the integration, I would be happy to work on > a project to bring the two together. > > - Mark > > > On 3/22/2011 12:19 PM, Demian Katz wrote: > > Given the widespread adoption of Drupal, it's not surprising that > people keep asking whether there is a VuFind plug-in available for the > CMS. This was a topic of some discussion at last year's VuFind 2.0 > summit. I still remain unconvinced that there's a sensible way to do > this, at least beyond something simplistic like a search box > generator, but since the subject keeps coming up, I thought I would > poll the list... Are there any Drupal developers out there, or even > anyone using Drupal and VuFind in conjunction? I would be interested > in talking to someone familiar with the Drupal platform to see if > there's anything we can do to make VuFind more Drupal-friendly without > actually having to rebuild the whole thing. > > - Demian > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Enable your software for Intel(R) Active Management Technology to meet the > growing manageability and security demands of your customers. Businesses > are taking advantage of Intel(R) vPro (TM) technology - will your > software > be a part of the solution? Download the Intel(R) Manageability Checker > today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmar > _______________________________________________ > Vufind-tech mailing list > Vuf...@li... > <mailto:Vuf...@li...> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vufind-tech > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Enable your software for Intel(R) Active Management Technology to meet the > growing manageability and security demands of your customers. Businesses > are taking advantage of Intel(R) vPro (TM) technology - will your > software > be a part of the solution? Download the Intel(R) Manageability Checker > today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmar > _______________________________________________ > Vufind-tech mailing list > Vuf...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vufind-tech > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Demian Katz <mailto:dem...@vi...> > March 22, 2011 2:19 PM > > > Given the widespread adoption of Drupal, it's not surprising that > people keep asking whether there is a VuFind plug-in available for the > CMS. This was a topic of some discussion at last year's VuFind 2.0 > summit. I still remain unconvinced that there's a sensible way to do > this, at least beyond something simplistic like a search box > generator, but since the subject keeps coming up, I thought I would > poll the list... Are there any Drupal developers out there, or even > anyone using Drupal and VuFind in conjunction? I would be interested > in talking to someone familiar with the Drupal platform to see if > there's anything we can do to make VuFind more Drupal-friendly without > actually having to rebuild the whole thing. > > - Demian > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Enable your software for Intel(R) Active Management Technology to meet the > growing manageability and security demands of your customers. Businesses > are taking advantage of Intel(R) vPro (TM) technology - will your > software > be a part of the solution? Download the Intel(R) Manageability Checker > today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmar > _______________________________________________ > Vufind-tech mailing list > Vuf...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vufind-tech |
From: Tim M. <tmm8@Lehigh.EDU> - 2011-06-16 14:23:23
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I wanted to resurrect this topic given this week's release of MKDru by IndexData. MKDru is apparently a discovery/metasearch plugin for Drupal, and IndexData has created separate versions for Drupal 6 and Drupal 7. It uses IndexData's Pazpar2 to search across standards-compliant information sources, as well as data index using SOLR/Lucene. So it seems logical that maybe this is VuFind's hook into Drupal. Here is the press release: http://www.librarytechnology.org/ltg-displaytext.pl?RC=15782 Thoughts or reactions? Tim -- Tim McGeary Team Leader, Library Technology Lehigh University 610-758-4998 tim...@le... tim...@gm... GTalk/Yahoo/Skype: timmcgeary On 3/28/11 9:32 AM, John C. Houser wrote: > Mark, > The library website templates that HSLC and Evanced are developing for > the PA Office of Commonwealth Libraries are also based on Drupal. > Hopefully, you'll see a jump in PA libraries using Drupal after they are > released this Spring. Since we're putting together a VuFind/Evergreen > system for nearly 40 libraries in PA as well, there should be good bit > of overlap between the Drupal and VuFind communities here. > > J > >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> Demian Katz <mailto:dem...@vi...> >> March 23, 2011 8:46 AM >> >> >> It’s great news that we’ve got someone in the community with detailed >> knowledge of both VuFind and Drupal. I’ll definitely share your name >> the next time there’s a serious inquiry about VuFind/Drupal >> integration. In the meantime, if you want to share any of your API >> code, I would definitely be happy to take a look and see if it can be >> added to the trunk so others can benefit. >> >> thanks, >> >> Demian >> >> *From:*Mark Noble [mailto:mdn...@gm...] >> *Sent:* Tuesday, March 22, 2011 7:11 PM >> *To:* Demian Katz >> *Cc:* vuf...@li... >> *Subject:* Re: [VuFind-Tech] Drupal and VuFind >> >> I've been building some APIs for VuFind that encapsulate some of the >> search functionality and patron functionality to make them easier to >> reuse within other applications. Depending on how libraries wanted to >> integrate Drupal and VuFind we could use some of this functionality to >> build Drupal blocks that contain information from VuFind. We could >> also display information from Drupal within VuFind. >> >> I do Drupal development in addition to my work with VuFind and I've >> written a couple of books on Drupal. If anyone is interested in >> helping to define a scope for integration of Drupal and VuFind or in >> sponsoring development of the integration, I would be happy to work on >> a project to bring the two together. >> >> - Mark >> >> >> On 3/22/2011 12:19 PM, Demian Katz wrote: >> >> Given the widespread adoption of Drupal, it’s not surprising that >> people keep asking whether there is a VuFind plug-in available for the >> CMS. This was a topic of some discussion at last year’s VuFind 2.0 >> summit. I still remain unconvinced that there’s a sensible way to do >> this, at least beyond something simplistic like a search box >> generator, but since the subject keeps coming up, I thought I would >> poll the list… Are there any Drupal developers out there, or even >> anyone using Drupal and VuFind in conjunction? I would be interested >> in talking to someone familiar with the Drupal platform to see if >> there’s anything we can do to make VuFind more Drupal-friendly without >> actually having to rebuild the whole thing. >> >> - Demian >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Enable your software for Intel(R) Active Management Technology to meet the >> growing manageability and security demands of your customers. Businesses >> are taking advantage of Intel(R) vPro (TM) technology - will your >> software >> be a part of the solution? Download the Intel(R) Manageability Checker >> today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmar >> _______________________________________________ >> Vufind-tech mailing list >> Vuf...@li... >> <mailto:Vuf...@li...> >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vufind-tech >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Enable your software for Intel(R) Active Management Technology to meet the >> growing manageability and security demands of your customers. Businesses >> are taking advantage of Intel(R) vPro (TM) technology - will your >> software >> be a part of the solution? Download the Intel(R) Manageability Checker >> today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmar >> _______________________________________________ >> Vufind-tech mailing list >> Vuf...@li... >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vufind-tech >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> Demian Katz <mailto:dem...@vi...> >> March 22, 2011 2:19 PM >> >> >> Given the widespread adoption of Drupal, it’s not surprising that >> people keep asking whether there is a VuFind plug-in available for the >> CMS. This was a topic of some discussion at last year’s VuFind 2.0 >> summit. I still remain unconvinced that there’s a sensible way to do >> this, at least beyond something simplistic like a search box >> generator, but since the subject keeps coming up, I thought I would >> poll the list… Are there any Drupal developers out there, or even >> anyone using Drupal and VuFind in conjunction? I would be interested >> in talking to someone familiar with the Drupal platform to see if >> there’s anything we can do to make VuFind more Drupal-friendly without >> actually having to rebuild the whole thing. >> >> - Demian >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Enable your software for Intel(R) Active Management Technology to meet the >> growing manageability and security demands of your customers. Businesses >> are taking advantage of Intel(R) vPro (TM) technology - will your >> software >> be a part of the solution? Download the Intel(R) Manageability Checker >> today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmar >> _______________________________________________ >> Vufind-tech mailing list >> Vuf...@li... >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vufind-tech > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Enable your software for Intel(R) Active Management Technology to meet the > growing manageability and security demands of your customers. Businesses > are taking advantage of Intel(R) vPro (TM) technology - will your software > be a part of the solution? Download the Intel(R) Manageability Checker > today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmar > > > > _______________________________________________ > Vufind-tech mailing list > Vuf...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vufind-tech |
From: Demian K. <dem...@vi...> - 2011-06-16 14:15:56
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I don't see a huge advantage to hooking directly into VuFind's Solr index -- an awful lot of the power of VuFind comes not from the index itself but from how queries are built and processed by VuFind's logic. However, if it's possible to hook VuFind into Pazpar2 in a more sophisticated way, that seems like it might be a logical step forward. In fact, it would really make sense to do this both ways -- if Pazpar2 is able to search VuFind's standard Solr-based module, and VuFind is able to search Pazpar2 (as suggested by http://vufind.org/jira/browse/VUFIND-122), it would be possible to use Pazpar2 to federate standard VuFind results with other sources. I don't think that this is something I'm going to have time to work on myself, but if anyone is interested in tackling it, I'd be happy to support their efforts as best I can. - Demian > -----Original Message----- > From: Tim McGeary [mailto:tmm8@Lehigh.EDU] > Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2011 10:06 AM > To: ho...@hs...; vuf...@li... > Cc: John C. Houser; Demian Katz; Mark Noble > Subject: Re: [VuFind-Tech] Drupal and VuFind > > I wanted to resurrect this topic given this week's release of MKDru by > IndexData. MKDru is apparently a discovery/metasearch plugin for > Drupal, and IndexData has created separate versions for Drupal 6 and > Drupal 7. > > It uses IndexData's Pazpar2 to search across standards-compliant > information sources, as well as data index using SOLR/Lucene. So it > seems logical that maybe this is VuFind's hook into Drupal. > > Here is the press release: > http://www.librarytechnology.org/ltg-displaytext.pl?RC=15782 > > Thoughts or reactions? > > Tim > > -- > Tim McGeary > Team Leader, Library Technology > Lehigh University > 610-758-4998 > tim...@le... > > tim...@gm... > GTalk/Yahoo/Skype: timmcgeary > > On 3/28/11 9:32 AM, John C. Houser wrote: > > Mark, > > The library website templates that HSLC and Evanced are developing > for > > the PA Office of Commonwealth Libraries are also based on Drupal. > > Hopefully, you'll see a jump in PA libraries using Drupal after they > are > > released this Spring. Since we're putting together a VuFind/Evergreen > > system for nearly 40 libraries in PA as well, there should be good > bit > > of overlap between the Drupal and VuFind communities here. > > > > J > > > >> -------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- > >> > >> Demian Katz <mailto:dem...@vi...> > >> March 23, 2011 8:46 AM > >> > >> > >> It's great news that we've got someone in the community with > detailed > >> knowledge of both VuFind and Drupal. I'll definitely share your name > >> the next time there's a serious inquiry about VuFind/Drupal > >> integration. In the meantime, if you want to share any of your API > >> code, I would definitely be happy to take a look and see if it can > be > >> added to the trunk so others can benefit. > >> > >> thanks, > >> > >> Demian > >> > >> *From:*Mark Noble [mailto:mdn...@gm...] > >> *Sent:* Tuesday, March 22, 2011 7:11 PM > >> *To:* Demian Katz > >> *Cc:* vuf...@li... > >> *Subject:* Re: [VuFind-Tech] Drupal and VuFind > >> > >> I've been building some APIs for VuFind that encapsulate some of the > >> search functionality and patron functionality to make them easier to > >> reuse within other applications. Depending on how libraries wanted > to > >> integrate Drupal and VuFind we could use some of this functionality > to > >> build Drupal blocks that contain information from VuFind. We could > >> also display information from Drupal within VuFind. > >> > >> I do Drupal development in addition to my work with VuFind and I've > >> written a couple of books on Drupal. If anyone is interested in > >> helping to define a scope for integration of Drupal and VuFind or in > >> sponsoring development of the integration, I would be happy to work > on > >> a project to bring the two together. > >> > >> - Mark > >> > >> > >> On 3/22/2011 12:19 PM, Demian Katz wrote: > >> > >> Given the widespread adoption of Drupal, it's not surprising that > >> people keep asking whether there is a VuFind plug-in available for > the > >> CMS. This was a topic of some discussion at last year's VuFind 2.0 > >> summit. I still remain unconvinced that there's a sensible way to do > >> this, at least beyond something simplistic like a search box > >> generator, but since the subject keeps coming up, I thought I would > >> poll the list... Are there any Drupal developers out there, or even > >> anyone using Drupal and VuFind in conjunction? I would be interested > >> in talking to someone familiar with the Drupal platform to see if > >> there's anything we can do to make VuFind more Drupal-friendly > without > >> actually having to rebuild the whole thing. > >> > >> - Demian > >> > >> -------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------- > >> Enable your software for Intel(R) Active Management Technology to > meet the > >> growing manageability and security demands of your customers. > Businesses > >> are taking advantage of Intel(R) vPro (TM) technology - will your > >> software > >> be a part of the solution? Download the Intel(R) Manageability > Checker > >> today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmar > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Vufind-tech mailing list > >> Vuf...@li... > >> <mailto:Vuf...@li...> > >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vufind-tech > >> -------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------- > >> Enable your software for Intel(R) Active Management Technology to > meet the > >> growing manageability and security demands of your customers. > Businesses > >> are taking advantage of Intel(R) vPro (TM) technology - will your > >> software > >> be a part of the solution? Download the Intel(R) Manageability > Checker > >> today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmar > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Vufind-tech mailing list > >> Vuf...@li... > >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vufind-tech > >> -------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- > >> > >> Demian Katz <mailto:dem...@vi...> > >> March 22, 2011 2:19 PM > >> > >> > >> Given the widespread adoption of Drupal, it's not surprising that > >> people keep asking whether there is a VuFind plug-in available for > the > >> CMS. This was a topic of some discussion at last year's VuFind 2.0 > >> summit. I still remain unconvinced that there's a sensible way to do > >> this, at least beyond something simplistic like a search box > >> generator, but since the subject keeps coming up, I thought I would > >> poll the list... Are there any Drupal developers out there, or even > >> anyone using Drupal and VuFind in conjunction? I would be interested > >> in talking to someone familiar with the Drupal platform to see if > >> there's anything we can do to make VuFind more Drupal-friendly > without > >> actually having to rebuild the whole thing. > >> > >> - Demian > >> > >> -------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------- > >> Enable your software for Intel(R) Active Management Technology to > meet the > >> growing manageability and security demands of your customers. > Businesses > >> are taking advantage of Intel(R) vPro (TM) technology - will your > >> software > >> be a part of the solution? Download the Intel(R) Manageability > Checker > >> today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmar > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Vufind-tech mailing list > >> Vuf...@li... > >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vufind-tech > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > --------- > > Enable your software for Intel(R) Active Management Technology to > meet the > > growing manageability and security demands of your customers. > Businesses > > are taking advantage of Intel(R) vPro (TM) technology - will your > software > > be a part of the solution? Download the Intel(R) Manageability > Checker > > today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmar > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Vufind-tech mailing list > > Vuf...@li... > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vufind-tech |
From: Filipe MS B. (UA) <fs...@ua...> - 2011-06-16 16:10:56
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Hello all! I do like the "However, programmers can also use the lower-level API of the module to build completely customized functionality" part! If one could consume its results (in a similar matter as with MetaLib X-Server or Summon API), we would have a more complete offer than VuFind's present enabled sources, Bibliographic Catalog(s) (+ other MARC sources) and OAI-PMH enabled repositories. I do believe that most of Institutions implementing an Open Source Discovery solution like VuFind, do it mostly to avoid the extra burden that such a commercial solution would represent in the annual budget. I am aware that not being able to aggregate most of the resources those solutions do have locally indexed and offered at the same level as the local OPAC records, one can not reclaim a VuFind implementation (or any other solution) to be an head-to-head substitute of such solutions. Despite of that, they tend to be redundant solutions. Having that said, I think we can strive to get it as close as a local aggregator of resources (only way to make them discoverable) as it gets. As a matter of fact, when showing a local VuFind implementation with our OPAC records fully loaded (and getting real time administrative data from our ILS (Ex Libris Aleph, via X-Server)), from our OJS and DSpace implementations, besides records from a central repository of Portuguese and Brazilian repositories and MARC records from EBSCO subscribed periodicals, to a colleague of mine from the Library, her reaction was that it couldn't be called an integrator as many of the vital sources were missing. So back to NGC / OPAC 2.0 with local resources indexed (project description), if not in mistake the ground foundation of VuFind, even though I reackon those "extra" resources could be considered as part of "Other Library Collections and Resources, as stated at http://vufind.org/. I have the pleasure of having some exchanges of ideas with Demian time-to-time (really stimulating ones and I do really appreciate Demian's time and consideration, mostly because I am new around here, although been checking time to time VuFind's progress, since 2009). Demian advanced possible framework to integrate these "on the fly" "harvested" records (via z39.50, Pazpar2) is something I would really like to give it a try. Unfortunately me too, I am with my calendar overbooked until half of next academic year (multi-task mode, started writing this message an hour ago or so). Not intending to steal this thread or lunch confusion on it, just would like to point that in my modest opinion Drupal integration would hold several advantages, mainly at the community level (organic groups) as it would if it could activate and consume services from such solutions such as Elgg ( http://www.elgg.org/). Ok, enough brainstorming! All the best from Portugal, Filipe B. PS: a proper introduction of myself follows some time soon. On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Demian Katz <dem...@vi...>wrote: > I don't see a huge advantage to hooking directly into VuFind's Solr index > -- an awful lot of the power of VuFind comes not from the index itself but > from how queries are built and processed by VuFind's logic. However, if > it's possible to hook VuFind into Pazpar2 in a more sophisticated way, that > seems like it might be a logical step forward. In fact, it would really > make sense to do this both ways -- if Pazpar2 is able to search VuFind's > standard Solr-based module, and VuFind is able to search Pazpar2 (as > suggested by http://vufind.org/jira/browse/VUFIND-122), it would be > possible to use Pazpar2 to federate standard VuFind results with other > sources. I don't think that this is something I'm going to have time to > work on myself, but if anyone is interested in tackling it, I'd be happy to > support their efforts as best I can. > > - Demian > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Tim McGeary [mailto:tmm8@Lehigh.EDU] > > Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2011 10:06 AM > > To: ho...@hs...; vuf...@li... > > Cc: John C. Houser; Demian Katz; Mark Noble > > Subject: Re: [VuFind-Tech] Drupal and VuFind > > > > I wanted to resurrect this topic given this week's release of MKDru by > > IndexData. MKDru is apparently a discovery/metasearch plugin for > > Drupal, and IndexData has created separate versions for Drupal 6 and > > Drupal 7. > > > > It uses IndexData's Pazpar2 to search across standards-compliant > > information sources, as well as data index using SOLR/Lucene. So it > > seems logical that maybe this is VuFind's hook into Drupal. > > > > Here is the press release: > > http://www.librarytechnology.org/ltg-displaytext.pl?RC=15782 > > > > Thoughts or reactions? > > > > Tim > > > > -- > > Tim McGeary > > Team Leader, Library Technology > > Lehigh University > > 610-758-4998 > > tim...@le... > > > > tim...@gm... > > GTalk/Yahoo/Skype: timmcgeary > > > > On 3/28/11 9:32 AM, John C. Houser wrote: > > > Mark, > > > The library website templates that HSLC and Evanced are developing > > for > > > the PA Office of Commonwealth Libraries are also based on Drupal. > > > Hopefully, you'll see a jump in PA libraries using Drupal after they > > are > > > released this Spring. Since we're putting together a VuFind/Evergreen > > > system for nearly 40 libraries in PA as well, there should be good > > bit > > > of overlap between the Drupal and VuFind communities here. > > > > > > J > > > > > >> -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ---- > > >> > > >> Demian Katz <mailto:dem...@vi...> > > >> March 23, 2011 8:46 AM > > >> > > >> > > >> It's great news that we've got someone in the community with > > detailed > > >> knowledge of both VuFind and Drupal. I'll definitely share your name > > >> the next time there's a serious inquiry about VuFind/Drupal > > >> integration. In the meantime, if you want to share any of your API > > >> code, I would definitely be happy to take a look and see if it can > > be > > >> added to the trunk so others can benefit. > > >> > > >> thanks, > > >> > > >> Demian > > >> > > >> *From:*Mark Noble [mailto:mdn...@gm...] > > >> *Sent:* Tuesday, March 22, 2011 7:11 PM > > >> *To:* Demian Katz > > >> *Cc:* vuf...@li... > > >> *Subject:* Re: [VuFind-Tech] Drupal and VuFind > > >> > > >> I've been building some APIs for VuFind that encapsulate some of the > > >> search functionality and patron functionality to make them easier to > > >> reuse within other applications. Depending on how libraries wanted > > to > > >> integrate Drupal and VuFind we could use some of this functionality > > to > > >> build Drupal blocks that contain information from VuFind. We could > > >> also display information from Drupal within VuFind. > > >> > > >> I do Drupal development in addition to my work with VuFind and I've > > >> written a couple of books on Drupal. If anyone is interested in > > >> helping to define a scope for integration of Drupal and VuFind or in > > >> sponsoring development of the integration, I would be happy to work > > on > > >> a project to bring the two together. > > >> > > >> - Mark > > >> > > >> > > >> On 3/22/2011 12:19 PM, Demian Katz wrote: > > >> > > >> Given the widespread adoption of Drupal, it's not surprising that > > >> people keep asking whether there is a VuFind plug-in available for > > the > > >> CMS. This was a topic of some discussion at last year's VuFind 2.0 > > >> summit. I still remain unconvinced that there's a sensible way to do > > >> this, at least beyond something simplistic like a search box > > >> generator, but since the subject keeps coming up, I thought I would > > >> poll the list... Are there any Drupal developers out there, or even > > >> anyone using Drupal and VuFind in conjunction? I would be interested > > >> in talking to someone familiar with the Drupal platform to see if > > >> there's anything we can do to make VuFind more Drupal-friendly > > without > > >> actually having to rebuild the whole thing. > > >> > > >> - Demian > > >> > > >> -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ---------- > > >> Enable your software for Intel(R) Active Management Technology to > > meet the > > >> growing manageability and security demands of your customers. > > Businesses > > >> are taking advantage of Intel(R) vPro (TM) technology - will your > > >> software > > >> be a part of the solution? 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Are there any Drupal developers out there, or even > > >> anyone using Drupal and VuFind in conjunction? I would be interested > > >> in talking to someone familiar with the Drupal platform to see if > > >> there's anything we can do to make VuFind more Drupal-friendly > > without > > >> actually having to rebuild the whole thing. > > >> > > >> - Demian > > >> > > >> -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ---------- > > >> Enable your software for Intel(R) Active Management Technology to > > meet the > > >> growing manageability and security demands of your customers. > > Businesses > > >> are taking advantage of Intel(R) vPro (TM) technology - will your > > >> software > > >> be a part of the solution? 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