Re: [VuFind-General] VuFind and non-MARC, non-bibliographic catalog data

[Reuben P. <rd...@au...>]

This thread:
   
http://old.nabble.com/Auburn-VuFind-begins-Public-Beta-td26169928.html

includes some information on how Auburn indexes
Content-DM records in VuFind.
Search for
     "CDM to Vufind"
in the thread.

Good luck!

Cheers,
Reuben


>>> "Levy, Michael" <ml...@us...> 1/7/2010 10:05 AM >>>
I am exploring the possibility of using VuFind as a central discovery
layer at my institution.

The main impetus for this project is to create a centralized
search/discovery application for catalog data that currently resides
in
a few disparate systems, which are not bibliographic and are not MARC
based.  One source of catalog data will be from a commercial
collections
management system; two others are homegrown cataloging systems.  
[Later
on, MARC data from our Voyager library system may become part of the
mix.]  For the photo and film and video systems, a link from the
results
pages could link to the existing web applications for those
collections.

VuFind is a very attractive application, and I know the PHP code can
be
modified by us.  However it will be a rough decision to think about
how
much work it would be to customize the app.  For example, how hard is
it
to add a new field?  Or, if we want a field "Scope and Contents," do
we
reuse an existing Solr field and change the label display?  At what
point do we make so many modifications that we've we can no longer
benefit from upgrades to the system because we've forked our own?

I would appreciate some discussion on the topic of importing non-MARC
data into Solr, and the topic of adding new fields or reusing VuFind
fields for data that is a little different from the normal
bibliographic
record -- and the practicalities of merging any customizations we
might
have to make with the VuFind trunk.  Thanks for any comments!





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