Next-generation Discovery Layers and Kuali OLE at Penn

Bob Persing's slides from our session at the 2013 Charleston Conference. Nov 7, 2013.

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1. Charleston  Conference  –  Nov.  7,  2013   Next-­‐genera*on  Discovery  Layers   and  Kuali  OLE  at  Penn     Bob  Persing,  University  of  Pennsylvania          
2. Charleston  Conference  –  Nov.  7,  2013   ▪  Library  catalog  database:  almost  5M  bib.  records   ▪  Running  Voyager  ILS  since  1997   ▪  First  large  adopter   ▪  Founding  member  of  Borrow  Direct  and  EZBorrow  consorPa   ▪  Both  now  using  Relais  soQware  for  their  union  catalogs   ▪  Joined  OLE  Project  in  2009  preliminary  design  phase   Penn snapshot
3. Charleston  Conference  –  Nov.  7,  2013   Kuali OLE Partners
4. Charleston  Conference  –  Nov.  7,  2013   ▪  2005:  evaluated  market,  decided  to  develop  our  own   ▪  before  VuFind  or  Blacklight  were  very  far  along   ▪  Goals:   ▪  Open  architecture   ▪  Easily  extensible   ▪  Not  specific  to  library  data  –  use  with  any  structured  data  source   ▪  IntegraPons  with  other  data  sources   Penn discovery layer
5. Charleston  Conference  –  Nov.  7,  2013   ▪  Solr/Lucene  indexing   ▪  XSLT  page  rendering   ▪  includes  Cocoon  layer,  which  will  be  replaced  at  some  point   ▪  Some  unique  pieces   ▪  Browse  funcPonality  –  more  robust  than  other  discovery  layers   Digital Library Architecture (DLA)
6. Charleston  Conference  –  Nov.  7,  2013   ▪  First  two  implementaPon  were  non-­‐library  catalogs:   ▪  Work  and  Family  Researchers  Network   ▪  h`p://workfamily.sas.upenn.edu   ▪  Open  Language  Archives  Community   ▪  h`p://search.language-­‐archives.org/   Digital Library Architecture (DLA)
7. Charleston  Conference  –  Nov.  7,  2013   ▪  Began  using  DLA  as  discovery  layer  for  Voyager  8/13   ▪  h`p://franklin.library.upenn.edu   ▪  Extensive  facePng   ▪  Strong  browse  funcPonality   ▪  Good  support  for  non-­‐Roman  scripts   ▪  Had  to  build  links  to  various  sources  for  account  services   Digital Library Architecture (DLA)
8. Charleston  Conference  –  Nov.  7,  2013   ▪  IntegraPon  plans   ▪  Borrow  Direct,  EZBorrow  logical  targets   ▪  Direct  access  via  API,  or  feed  from  union  database?   ▪  Data  from  A/I  databases   ▪  Data  from  local  e-­‐resource  database   ▪  and,  of  course,  OLE  data   DLA and Data Sources
9. Charleston  Conference  –  Nov.  7,  2013   ▪  OLE  also  has  Solr  indexing  for  staff-­‐side  searching   ▪  Similar  facePng,  presentaPon   OLE indexing
10. Charleston  Conference  –  Nov.  7,  2013   ▪  2013:  Release  OLE  1.0  (Q4  –  next  week,  in  fact!)   ▪  2014:  release  OLE  1.5  (Q2),  release  OLE  2.0  (Q4)   ▪  Early  ImplementaPons  (2014)   ▪  Lehigh  University,  University  of  Chicago,  Bloomsbury  Colleges   ▪  Mid-­‐ImplementaPons  (2014-­‐2016)   ▪  Duke  University,  Indiana  University,  North  Carolina  State  University,   University  of  Pennsylvania,  Villanova  University   ▪  Later  ImplementaPons   ▪  University  of  Maryland  (2016-­‐2017)   ▪  Planning  ImplementaPons  (dates  not  set)   ▪  Florida  ConsorPum,  University  of  Michigan   OLE timeline
11. Charleston  Conference  –  Nov.  7,  2013   ▪  For more on Kuali OLE ▪  Visit our website: http://ole.kuali.org ▪  See our Test-Drive - http://kuali.org/test-drives ▪  Follow us on Twitter: @kualiole ▪  Read our Blog at: http://kualiole.tumblr.com ▪  Follow us on Ohloh - https://www.ohloh.net/p/kole Thank You!