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The Next Generation Library Catalog: A Comparative Study of the OPACs of Koha, Evergreen, and Voyager (141-150) [HTML] [PDF] Sharon Q. Yang and Melissa A. Hofmann

When a library end-user searches the online catalogue for works by a particular author, he will typically get a long list that contains different translations and editions of all the books by that author, sorted by title or date of issue. As an attempt to make some order in this chaos, the Pode project has applied a method of automated FRBRizing based on the information contained in MARC records. The project has also experimented with RDF representation to demonstrate how an author's complete production can be presented as a short and lucid list of unique works, which can easily be browsed by their different expressions and manifestations. Furthermore, by linking instances in the dataset to matching or corresponding instances in external sets, the presentation has been enriched with additional information about authors and works.

The MARC::Record -Perl library. See the "Other Writings" -section for references

Discussion about Axiell ILS-products and Drupal

"The article evaluates several open source integrated library system products, including Koha, Evergreen, OPALS and NewGenLib."

"In this article, the author explores some patterns in how perceptions and misperceptions about Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) form and guide decision making in libraries in the U.S. The author hopes to rectify some of these misperceptions because they can get in the way of making good decisions. He explains some considerations about the use of FLOSS. In addition, the author discusses the role of software vendors and consultants in addressing the misperceptions. He also discusses the benefits of using FLOSS."

"The article focuses on the critic by Stephen Abram, vice president of innovation at SyrsiDynix, about open source integrated library systems (ILS), which was leaked on October 29, 2009. Abram said in the leaked paper, that the open source software are a big threat to the vendor-based market of ILS. He added that the paper was the reaction of his company on the development of the open source technology in the market. Mark Leggott of the University of Prince Edward Island argued that the stand of Abram on open source software was just well wrong."

Code for the danish Ding -project

The aggregated soundtrack of library tech-folks involved in the Code4lib -community.

A self-referencing pointer, from our mind to yours :)

The trans-european Europeana metadata aggregator is going open linked data.

Interative, visual analysis and representation of the Koha database structure