Designing web-scale discovery systems using the VuFind open source software | Library Hi Tech News | Vol 35, No 3

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Summary:

"Abstract: Purpose: This paper aims to provide an overview of the emergence of resource discovery systems and services along with their advantages and best practices including current landscapes. It reports the development of a resource discovery system by using the “VuFind” software and describes other technological tools, software, standards and protocols required for the development of the prototype.

Design/methodology/approach: This paper describes the process of integrating VuFind (resource discovery tool) with Koha (integrated library system), DSpace (repository software) and Apache Tika (as full-text extractor for full-text searching), etc. Findings The proposed model performs like other existing commercial and open source Web-scale resource discovery systems and is capable of harvesting resources from different subscribed or external sources replacing a library’s OPAC.

Originality/value: This discovery system is an important add-on to designing a one-stop access in place of the existing retrieval silos in libraries. This system is capable of indexing a variety of content within and beyond library collections. This work may help library professionals and administrators in designing their discovery system, as well as vendors to improve their products, to provide different library-friendly services."

Link:

https://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/abs/10.1108/LHTN-12-2017-0088?journalCode=lhtn

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Tags:

oa.new oa.lis oa.access oa.search oa.discoverability oa.libraries oa.floss oa.infrastructure

Date tagged:

08/09/2018, 06:59

Date published:

08/09/2018, 02:59