"Beta" may be too strong a word. It is work in progress, and it's in whatever state it was when I last was working on it.
My bet, though, is that you tried to use the install routine, which is not really working right now. If you look at the wiki on bitbucket, there's an SQL dump of a workable database -- that's probably the place to start. Also, take a look at Fred LaPlante's...
2009-08-10 04:54:20 UTC in OpenBiblio