Alternative OPACs Personal Card Catalogs Bookbags Record Tagging Reading Lists User built RSS Feeds of reading lists and searches Interactive searches Saved searches Search history … tons of other things we’ve collectively imagined … What do they conceptually have in common?
OPAC3, Authority Control, Prototype Statistical Reporting
Evergreen development is chugging along, and we have some information and updates to pass along. As I mentioned in my previous entry, we have been spending a good deal of time moving the new server hardware into our new server hosting facility. First, allow me introduce you to three addresses:
Server Hosting Update
The largest happening lately in PINES-Evergreen land is a little place called e^deltacom. We issued an RFP for server hosting (aka “colocation”) services a while back, and e^deltacom was recently awarded the contract. Our intent in obtaining the services of such a place is to ensure that the PINES system has the best possible chance … Continue Reading about Server Hosting Update →
Extra Extra! Read all about it!
Hi everyone, A lot has been happening with the PINES crew and Evergreen development, and we apologize for lagging behind with our blog entries. I want to thank the OPEN-ILS-DEV folks for inquiring about us! Some highlights: We mentioned before that one of us was getting married, though I don’t know if we ever mentioned … Continue Reading about Extra Extra! Read all about it! →
OpenSRF Jabber: A Technical Review
As has been mentioned before on this blog, OpenSRF relies on Jabber for it’s communication layer. Jabber is an instant messaging service much like AIM, Yahoo messenger, and the like. The advantage of Jabber, of course, is that it’s an open spec (see xmpp.org) and there are a number of open source server implementations, allowing … Continue Reading about OpenSRF Jabber: A Technical Review →
It’s turtles all the way down
This will be a quick one because I’m feeling a bit under the weather, but I wanted to post a quick update on some of our tornado-like progress post-alpha.