Thesocialopac.net is the official website of the Social OPAC application suite--an open source social discovery platform for bibliographic data. The purpose of this site is to build a cohesive community of users and developers around the SOPAC project suite.
Koha is the first open-source Integrated Library System (ILS). In use worldwide, its development is steered by a growing community of libraries collaborating to achieve their technology goals. Koha's impressive feature set continues to evolve and expand to meet the needs of its user base.
The open source movement and libraries have a lot in common, not the least of which is the belief in free and open access to ideas and information. Yet, until recently, libraries have been slow to switch to open source software. Libraries have highly specialized software needs because the library community has developed its own complex standards and protocols to facilitate things like interlibrary loan, meta data sharing, and federated searching. Until recently, lack of commercial support made implementing open source unfeasible for libraries without an IT staff. Also, open source alternatives weren't perceived as scalable or feature-rich enough to handle the complex needs of most libraries. Now, commercial support has facilitated new levels of collaboration between libraries through sponsored development.
LibraryFind is...
an open source metasearch application developed by librarians for libraries, built with Ruby on Rails.
Some Current Features:
Built-in OpenURL resolver
2-click find workflow
Ability to locally index collections
Web-based administration
3-tiered caching system (to improve speed of searches)
Customizable user interface
VuFind is an OPAC (Online Public Access Catalog: aka library card catalog) developed and released open source from Villanova University. Ubuntu is the latest "heralded" Linux distribution--known primarily for its ease-of-use and friendly UI.
European library search tool. Good resource for librarian-assembled collections.
VuFind is a library resource portal designed and developed for libraries by libraries. The goal of VuFind is to enable your users to search and browse through all of your library's resources by replacing the traditional OPAC to include:
* Catalog Records
* Locally Cached Journals
* Digital Library Items
* Institutional Repository
* Institutional Bibliography
* and more...
G-Portal is a digital library research program supported by the Center for Research in Pedagogical Practices (CRPP) of Singapore's National Institute of Education (NIE). The program aims to develop a digital library portal for harnessing distributed geography learning objects and providing the essential tools to support active learning. The G-Portal team consists of researchers from the Education, Computer Science, and Information Science disciplines. The team has so far realised a Java-based portal for managing, visualizing and sharing metadata of geography objects, as well as using them to support various learning activities. This article summarizes the main accomplishments of the research program and its impact on geography education. The future research directions of G-Portal and the associated challenges will also be highlighted.
A group of librarians at the Georgia Public Library Service has developed an open source, enterprise-class library management system that may revolutionize the way large-scale libraries are run.The system, Evergreen, whose 1.0 release came in November, is an Integrated Library System (ILS): the software that manages, catalogs, and tracks the circulation of library holdings. It's written in C, JavaScript and Perl, is GPLed, runs on Linux with Apache, uses a PostgreSQL database, Jabber for messaging and XUL as client-side software. The system allows easy clustering and is based entirely on open protocols.
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Thesocialopac.net is the official website of the Social OPAC application suite--an open source social discovery platform for bibliographic data. The purpose of this site is to build a cohesive community of users and developers around the SOPAC project suite.
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