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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?