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I always wondered how much content relevant to a discovery layer could be found in Common Crawl, but not enough to, you know, actually investigate. -Ross. On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 8:59 AM Pikas, Christina K. < [log in to unmask]> wrote: > Seems like you'd need to hook in one of the web-crawling > not-Google-Scholars like https://www.semanticscholar.org/ ? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Code for Libraries <[log in to unmask]> On Behalf Of Erin > Nettifee > Sent: Friday, January 11, 2019 8:54 AM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Spit-balling - open-source discovery layer > > The other one to look at is Blacklight (www.projectblacklight.org) > > Best, > Erin > > On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 7:29 AM Geoffrey Spear <[log in to unmask]> > wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 5:24 PM Fitchett, Deborah < > > [log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > > > Kia ora koutou, > > > > > > Any attempt at actually doing this is far beyond my capabilities or > > > resources but I feel strongly that there’s a need for this, so I’m > > thinking > > > aloud about whether it’s actually practical – would love anyone > > > else’s thoughts! > > > > > > To date there’ve been a number of successful open-source catalogue > > systems > > > – Koha, Evergreen, the current FOLIO project. Discovery layers seem > > > to > > have > > > been left out of scope of all of these. > > > > > > My impression is that the main reason for this is the problem of the > > > metadata index. Metadata is hoarded by for-profit vendors; some of > > > them only grudgingly work with the Big Discover Layer companies > > > under strict conditions (and possibly with money changing hands, I > > > don’t know…) so > > would > > > be unlikely to just hand it over to a community project. No > > > metadata, no discovery layer. > > > > > > But more and more, metadata is becoming available through other > sources. > > > Crossref is the biggest and most obvious, and then there’s hundreds > > > or thousands of institutional repositories. So my thought is, is it > > > now becoming possible to create an index at least tolerably suitable > > > for an open-source discovery layer, using open-access metadata sources? > > > > > > And if so… how hard would it be? > > > > > > What are the “must have” components (index; search interface; > > > API/integrations so the library can index its own holdings from > > > whatever ILS it uses, and harvest from institutional repositories; > > API/integrations > > > to display real-time availability of said holdings; OpenURL to link > > > out > > to > > > link resolvers; institution accounts if cloud-hosted so the library > > > can configure this stuff plus look-and-feel; some way for librarians > > > to contribute corrections to faulty metadata…) > > > > > > And what are the “nice to have” components (link resolver > functionality? > > > Citation trails? …) > > > > > > Deborah > > > > > > Have you had a look at VIllanova's VuFind system? > > >