Slides for a talk on SOPAC delivered to the Connecticut Library Association. 4/29/2009

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

2. A brief history of sopac

3. UX Burden
Web Site opac
Web server ILS server

4. he er
Tp
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Web Site opac
Web server ILS server
UX Burden

5. 100% 20%
Customizable Customizable
Web Site opac

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

7. Probably not
Open Source
Open Source
Web Site opac

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Drupal opac
Web server ILS server

9. er
pp
ra . 0
W1
opac
Drupal You can do stuff here
Middleware
ILS server
Web server

10. er
pp
ra . 0
W1
opac
Drupal You can do stuff here
Middleware
ILS server
Web server PHP
database

11. er
pp
ra . 0
W1
opac
Drupal You can do stuff here
Middleware
ILS server
Web server PHP
database
reviews ratings tags etc

12. sopac 1.0
redux

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

14. welcome to sopac!

15. the hit list
marginalia
tags
reviews

16. the item record

17. tags

18. tags
ratings
reviews

19. sopac 2.0
introduced

20. 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

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

22. completely integrated index

23. enhanced profile features

24. Let’s take a tour . . .

25. 2 thank you!
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John blyberg
jblyberg@darienlibrary.org
thesocialopac.net