News

ILS MARC extraction scripts available- III, Aleph and Voyager

The XC team welcomes feedback on our ILS data extraction sample scripts. We have now added a script for III Millennium to the existing scripts for Voyager and Aleph systems.

• Automates the synchronization of MARC metadata between the ILS and XC or other systems.
• These sample scripts serve as a starting point for an institution, allowing a much faster start.
• The extracted data can then be used to populate XC or other external systems on a regularly scheduled basis.
• XCO partner institutions have written these -----THANK YOU

XCO Call for Meeting Participation

The eXtensible Catalog Organization is hosting a meeting of XC community members to be held in Charlotte, North Carolina, on May 5th-6th, 2010. Current and future members of the XC community will gather to learn about XC Project’s accomplishments and to create an action plan for remaining XC software development. Attendance at the meeting is by invitation. We encourage institutions that are interested in making a significant contribution to the future development of the XC Software to apply for an invitation by submitting a proposal as described in the attached document.

CARLI Consortium and UNC Charlotte are XCO Founders

We’re delighted to report that the CARLI Consortium and the University of North Carolina/Charlotte have agreed to join the University of Rochester as Founders of the eXtensible Catalog Organization (XCO)!  The XCO Founders will be announcing the launch of this new not-for-profit organization in early 2010.  The XCO’s mission is to maintain and improve XC software, provide guidance and future direction for XC, and foster a community of users and developers around XC.  Thank you to Susan Singleton and everyone at CARLI; and to Stanley Wilder and his staff at UNCC fo

XC Partnering with NYlink

We’re excited to announce a new partnership between the eXtensible Catalog and Nylink!  In the coming months, Nylink staff will begin offering web-based training for the XC software toolkits, especially for the XC Metadata Services Toolkit (MST).

UNC-C Partners with XC

We are very happy to report that the University of North Carolina – Charlotte is partnering with XC to work on integrating XC with the Innovative Interfaces Millenium ILS. 

Through collaboration with both UNC-C and RIT, we will be able to offer integration options for several different III implementations. Once these are finalized and tested, this work will be included in the code and documentation download section on our Google code repository. Welcome aboard UNC-C.

Issue Trackers to Monitor XC Development

We have had a couple of inquiries recently about what is going on with XC. First, if there are ever any questions, please contact us. Contact info can be found at the bottom of each page of the website. Additionally, three software components use Google code as a code repository and one uses Drupal. We are actively using the Google code issue trackers to capture all our enhancements and bugs for OAI, NCIP and Metadata Services Toolkits. Links to all the code repositories can be found on the XC website.

Serials Solutions Joins eXtensible Catalog Project

We're excited to announce a new partnership between the eXtensible Catalog Project and Serials Solutions!  The full announcement reads as follows: 

Preliminary Report on XC User Research Now Available

The eXtensible Catalog project at the University of Rochester River Campus Libraries is pleased to release the first report on the user research that we conducted in support of XC software development. We thank the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and our user research partners – Cornell, Ohio State, Yale and the University of Rochester – for their generous support of this project.

eXtensible Catalog Software Availability

The XC team is currently in the final stages of making the XC software available. The XC OAI Toolkit and the XC NCIP Toolkit are currently being readied for release under the MIT License (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php). Development and functionality enhancement will continue on these toolkits after release, but new development will take place on a publicly accessible code repository.

eXtensible Catalog (XC) Webcast

A new webcast that describes the eXtensible Catalog (XC) software is now available!
http://www.screencast.com/users/eXensibleCatalog

This presentation includes video, audio and animated slides describing all of the components of XC software, features, and architecture. In addition, recent screen shots of the XC Metadata Services Toolkit user interface are provided.