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. <
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> 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
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> 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?
> >
>