VuFind Digital Libraries à la Carte International Ticer School 2009 Tilburg University 31 July, 2009 Benoit PAUWELS Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) Brussels
VuFind
Digital Libraries à la Carte
International Ticer School 2009Tilburg University
31 July, 2009
Benoit PAUWELSUniversité Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)
Brussels
• Overview of functionality
• Technical overview
• VuFind @ ULB
Agenda
• VuFind is a library resource portal – designed and developed by Villanova University’s Falvey
Memorial Library– open source; web based– project leader: Andrew Nagy
• In the first place conceived as a new OPAC experience– Export/Import MARC records from ILS into VuFind– ILS specific drivers for holding information and availability
• VuFind can be used as a portal solution for all library resources– library catalog, article databases, digital library, institutional
repository & bibliography, and other library collections and resources
• http://www.vufind.org
VuFind
Customizable interface: localization and brandingUses Yahoo User Interface CSS, PHP Smarty templates, XML/XSL, AJAX, Javascript
ILS specific ‘drivers’ for holding information and availability status
Voyager, Aleph, III, SirsiDynix , Koha, Evergreen
Faceted search experience
“More like this” (algorithmically generated suggestions)
Save resource to organized lists
Browse
Internationalization
Social bookmarks
Zotero compatible (COINS)
Persistent URLs (bookmarkable searches)
Persistent URLs (bookmarkable searches)
Persistent URLs (bookmarkable searches)
RSS feed per search query
CiteThis, EmailThis, TextThis
Export record to Endnote, Refworks
Social features: tagging, comments
Enrichment: - book covers: Amazon, Syndetic, Google
Books - book item reviews: Amazon, Syndetic
• Linux, Solaris, Windows
• Uses Apache SOLR, an open source search engine based on Lucene
• Apache HTTP Server 2.2 or later
• PHP 5.1.0 or later, Smarty templates
• XSL, Javascript, CSS, YUI
• MySQL 4.1 or later
• Java J2SE JDK 1.5 or later
• GNU Aspell Library (optional spell checker)
Technical overview
• Export MARC records from ILS
• Use VuFind import facilty– Store each record in a separate file – Index in Lucene through SOLR web service
• Delivered SOLR schema.xml for MARC records
• Searching– VuFind communicates with Lucene through SOLR web
service– Returns unique identifier for records– Data of records fetched from filesystem (XSL)
Technical overview
• Keep VuFind functionality
• Don’t keep:– MARC based– Filesystem– Import utility; rather OAI harvest
VuFind @ ULB
Metadata
Harvester
Indexer
VuFind
OAI-PMH
MySQL
Metadata
JDBC
Lucene
Lucene doc
Samburu
SOLR
Metadata
Harvester
Indexer
VuFind
OAI-PMH
MySQL
Metadata
JDBC
Lucene
Lucene doc
Samburu
SOLR
Metadata exchange format
Compound Object DIDL / MODS (*)
DIDL/MODS XML record stored as-is in MySQL field
didl2solr.xsl transform DIDL/MODS XML record into Lucene document, according to specific schema.xml SOLR config file
<originalRecord>contains complete DIDL/MODS record
solr2brief.xslsolr2full.xsltransform <originalRecord> field into HTML
(*) http://homepages.ulb.ac.be/~bpauwels/NEEO/WP5/WP5 Technical guidelines.pdf/
• DI-fusion– Institutional library resources: IR,
etheses repo, digithèque, [ catalog, iconothèque ]
• BICTel– Regional e-theses repository
• Unicat– Belgian national virtual catalog
VuFind @ ULB