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An introduction to sopac
Connecticut Library Association
April 27, 2009
John blyberg
darien library
thesocialopac.net

A brief history of sopac

UX Burden
Web Site opac
Web server ILS server

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Web Site opac
Web server ILS server
UX Burden

100% 20%
Customizable Customizable
Web Site opac

Where your
Where they
users think
ACTUALLY ARE
they are
Web Site opac

Probably not
Open Source
Open Source
Web Site opac

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Drupal opac
Web server ILS server

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W1
opac
Drupal You can do stuff here
Middleware
ILS server
Web server

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Drupal You can do stuff here
Middleware
ILS server
Web server PHP
database

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Drupal You can do stuff here
Middleware
ILS server
Web server PHP
database
reviews ratings tags etc

sopac 1.0
redux

A card catalog in an opac?
Add it to your collection
deface the card

welcome to sopac!

the hit list
marginalia
tags
reviews

the item record

tags

tags
ratings
reviews

sopac 2.0
introduced

Feature sopac 1 sopac 2
drupal cms X x
middleware x x
tags x x
ratings x x
reviews x x
account management x x
fines payment x x
ils independent x
indexed social data x
fully templatable x
x
plug-in architecture
scalable x
packagable x
speed optimized x

the social catalog application suite
SOPAC
Middleware
insurge
locum
database
business logic social data functions
Index
ILS connector
ILS member libraries

completely integrated index

enhanced profile features

Let’s take a tour . . .

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John blyberg
jblyberg@darienlibrary.org
thesocialopac.net