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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 >> > > > -- > Andrew Darby > Web Services Librarian > Ithaca College Library > http://www.ithaca.edu/library/ > [log in to unmask] >