News

Published by Randall Cook on Wednesday, December 14, 2011

XC Discovery Interface Demo Website

The eXtensible Catalog Organization is delighted to announce our live demo website for the XC discovery interface. The open-source software that drives this demo site (Drupal Toolkit version 6.x-1.1) is also being made available.

We have provided a webpage to assist you in finding the many unique features of the eXtensible Catalog (XC) discovery interface demo.

Notable Features:

- Faceted browsing with customizable facets
- Live connection to the ILS for circulation status
- FRBR/RDA-based metadata with library staff viewer
- Custom interface builder tool for staff

Published by Randall Cook on Thursday, December 8, 2011

NCIP Toolkit version 1.0 released

A cross-institution group of open source developers is pleased to announce the release of the XC NCIP (NCIP standard 2.0) Toolkit version 1.0. This includes the version 1.0 releases for the NCIP Toolkit Core Code as well as the Sirsi Dynix Symphony and the Ex Libris Voyager connectors.

Published by Randall Cook on Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Free copy of XC book available for download

We are pleased to announce that you can now download a free copy of the book, Scholarly Practice, Participatory Design and the eXtensible Catalog, based on user research for extensible Catalog. The full PDF of the book, as published, along with a separate PDF of its plates in color, can be found at: http://hdl.handle.net/1802/12375.

The book is also still available in paper from ACRL [http://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=3408] and Amazon [http://tinyurl.com/3ooljvx].

Published by Randall Cook on Tuesday, September 6, 2011

XC NCIP Toolkit "test bed" released

We are thrilled to announce the release of an NCIP test bed that works with the XC NCIP 2 Toolkit (NCIP protocol 2.x). The test bed is an installed XC NCIP Toolkit that connects to a training ILS and supports a subset of NCIP services. We envision growing the test bed over time. Please note that testers are interacting with the installed NCIP Toolkit, not with the ILS directly.

Instructions for the test bed: http://code.google.com/p/xcncip2toolkit/wiki/TestBed

Published by Randall Cook on Monday, July 25, 2011

NCIP Toolkit the subject of Code4lib article by Lehigh staff

Previously we posted a news item about Lehigh University and their NCIP Toolkit work at http://www.extensiblecatalog.org/news/lehigh-university-goes-live-xc-nci.... Michelle Suranofsky, the developer at Lehigh University, has now written about that work in a code4lib article called "Joining an Open Source Community: Creating a Symphony Connector for the XC NCIP Toolkit". You can find the full content here.

http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/5608

Published by Randall Cook on Thursday, July 7, 2011

Kyushu University Library announces discovery pilot

We here at XC are excited (thrilled is more like it) by the work that Kyushu University Library in Japan has been doing.

They have just announced a pilot version of a new discovery interface called Cute.Search that interfaces with their library catalog (known as Cute.Catalog). The pilot is a combination of Summon (from Serials Solutions) and eXtensible Catalog software. There is more information about the pilot at the first url below, which also includes an overview diagram of the discovery solution.

Published by Randall Cook on Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Release of new book, Scholarly Practice, Participatory Design and the eXtensible Catalog

We are pleased to announce the release of a new book, Scholarly Practice, Participatory Design and the eXtensible Catalog, based on user research for eXtensible Catalog, available now from ACRL [http://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=3408] or Amazon [http://tinyurl.com/3ooljvx].

Published by Randall Cook on Monday, April 18, 2011

Andrew W. Mellon grant awarded to CARLI for MST development

The eXtensible Catalog Organization (XCO) is very pleased to announce that The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a $100,000 grant to the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI) at the University of Illinois, to support development of the Metadata Services Toolkit (MST) component of eXtensible Catalog software. The grant funding, along with cash and in-kind programming contribution from CARLI, will focus on development of the MST for use by CARLI and other large library consortia.

Published by Jennifer Bowen on Friday, April 8, 2011

RDA and the eXtensible Catalog

In early March, XCO Co-Executive Directors Dave Lindahl and Jennifer Bowen were invited to meet with the US RDA Test Coordinating Committee at the Library of Congress to discuss XC's partial implementation of RDA. As a follow-up to that meeting and presentation, the committee invited Dave and Jennifer to submit a written statement for inclusion as an Appendix to the group's final report. The Committee's report, due out within the next month, will include recommendations regarding whether (and how) the US national libraries (LC, NLM, NAL) will implement RDA.

Published by Randall Cook on Thursday, March 31, 2011

XC NCIP Toolkit Connectors available for Symphony and Voyager ILS

Here is exciting news regarding resource sharing and discovery using the NCIP protocol.

The open source community of software developers working on and supporting the eXtensible Catalog’s (XC) NCIP Toolkit, http://code.google.com/p/xcncip2toolkit/ is pleased to announce the release of new software.

We are releasing:
• NCIP Core – required for all installations. Installation instructions at http://code.google.com/p/xcncip2toolkit/wiki/CoreInstallation