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We have gone live with the Umlaut software here at my place of work. I've been mentioned working on this and how it may help solve problems brought up here for a while, so many may be curious. Umlaut essentially functions as a 'front end' to the SFX link resolver, providing flexibility, value-added services, and a layer for cutomizing user interfaces that should be stable through SFX releases, so far as the SFX API continues to be backwards compatible. If you're curious, you can find a brief introduction to the Umlaut as we've deployed it, and pointers to more information in my blog post here: http://bibwild.wordpress.com/2008/01/14/re-introducing-the-umlaut/ I am definitely interested in more 'development partners'. At this point, I wouldn't call the Umlaut completely stable or problem-free software, nor software that will work for you out of the box without putting some effort into it. But if I can get a few interested parties who are interested in putting effort into it, I'm willing and eager to work with them. If we can get to the point where three or five institutions willing to put some effort into it are running it succesfullly, at THAT point it'll probably be ready for another wave of adopters with less technical expertise or resources. But if you're interested, please feel free to contact me. Jonathan -- Jonathan Rochkind Digital Services Software Engineer The Sheridan Libraries Johns Hopkins University 410.516.8886 rochkind (at) jhu.edu