> As long as we're on the subject, does anyone want to share strategies
> for syncing circulation data? It sounds like we're all talking about
> the parallel systems á la NCSU's Endeca system, which I think is a
> great idea. It's the circ data that keeps nagging at me, though. Is
> there an elegant way to use your fancy new faceted browser to search
> against circ data w/out re-dumping the whole thing every night?
I had assumed from the get-go that any Lucene/Solr type front-end would require some link back into the ILS for real-time circ info -- to my mind, periodic syncing of data just isn't good enough. I don't want to take two steps forward with the catalog search interface and have to take three steps backward with not having access to the other data in the ILS. Whether that link-back is via Z39.50 as Eric suggested, or NCIP (hah!) or direct programming of SQL, something will have to be done.
-- Michael
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From: Code for Libraries on behalf of Bess Sadler
Sent: Wed 1/17/2007 2:59 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Getting data from Voyager into XML?
On Jan 17, 2007, at 3:26 PM, Andrew Nagy wrote:
> One thing I am hoping that can come out of the preconference is a
> standard XSLT doc. I sat down with my metadata librarian to
> develop our
> XSLT doc -- determining what fields are to be searchable what fields
> should be left out to help speed up results, etc.
>
> It's pretty easy, I think you will be amazed how fast you can have a
> functioning system with very little effort.
>
> Andrew
As long as we're on the subject, does anyone want to share strategies
for syncing circulation data? It sounds like we're all talking about
the parallel systems á la NCSU's Endeca system, which I think is a
great idea. It's the circ data that keeps nagging at me, though. Is
there an elegant way to use your fancy new faceted browser to search
against circ data w/out re-dumping the whole thing every night?
Bess
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