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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? >