Probably not a bad approach. Ross is onboard with it. Let me know if I can
help in anyway. (I can join you if you like, for discussing with either of
them.)





On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, Andrew Darby wrote:

> Andrew,
>
> This looks fantastic!  Congratulations.
>
> On 7/19/07, Andrew Nagy <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Sorry for cross-posting
>>
>> Hello All,
>>
>> I am please to announce the release of our Next-Gen library catalog
>> browser, VuFind.  It is now officially open source code under the GPL and
>> hosted on Sourceforge.  We have been working on the application for quite
>> some time now, almost a year, and for the past few months have been working
>> with some local schools to test the application and begin to build some
>> install scripts.
>>
>> Currently out of the box the software works with the Voyager catalog, but
>> we are working on adding additional drivers to work with your favorite ILS!
>> Even Evergreen and Koha!  (If you would like to volunteer to build an ILS
>> Driver, we would highly appreciate the contribution.)
>>
>> Some of you may recall my presentation at Code4Lib 2007 on our initial
>> efforts of the software using a Native XML Database.  Now using the power
>> of Apache Solr, the speeds are astonishing and as we all know, Apache Solr
>> really does rock!
>>
>> Please have a look at our project website to download the software and you
>> can even try out a live demo of the software:
>> http://www.vufind.org/
>>
>> We are currently in a beta stage of development with the software but hope
>> to have all necessary functionality completed by the end of the summer and
>> have a stable production release by the Fall semester.  Please feel free to
>> sign up for the mailing list to let us know any thoughts you have on the
>> project and please report any bugs you encounter in testing, etc.
>>
>> Enjoy!
>> Andrew
>>
>
>
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> Ithaca College Library
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