VuFind is an open source library resource portal designed by Villanova University. It provides a customizable interface and faceted search for library resources including catalogs, databases, and repositories. At ULB, VuFind is used to provide access to institutional resources through harvesting metadata from repositories using OAI-PMH and storing it in a MySQL database rather than relying on a local ILS system. Records are transformed from their native DIDL/MODS format into a Lucene document structure for indexing by SOLR to power the search and retrieval functionality in VuFind.

1. Digital Libraries à la Carte International Ticer School 2009 Tilburg University 31 July, 2009 VuFind Benoit PAUWELSUniversité Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) Brussels

2. Agenda Overview of functionality Technical overview VuFind @ ULB

3. VuFind VuFind is a library resource portal designed and developed by Villanova University’s Falvey Memorial Library open source; web based project leader: Andrew Nagy In the first place conceived as a new OPAC experience Export/Import MARC records from ILS into VuFind ILS specific drivers for holding information and availability VuFind can be used as a portal solution for all library resources librarycatalog, article databases, digital library, institutionalrepository & bibliography, and other library collections and resources http://www.vufind.org

4. Functionality Customizable interface: localization and branding Uses Yahoo User Interface CSS, PHP Smarty templates, XML/XSL, AJAX, Javascript ILS specific ‘drivers’ for holding information and availability status Voyager, Aleph, III, SirsiDynix , Koha, Evergreen Faceted search experience “More like this” (algorithmically generated suggestions) Save resource to organized lists Browse Internationalization

5. Functionality Persistent URLs (bookmarkable searches) RSS feed per search query OAI syndication CiteThis, EmailThis, TextThis Export record to Endnote, Refworks Social features: tagging, comments Enrichment: book covers: Amazon, Syndetic, Google Books book item reviews: Amazon, Syndetic author biography: Wikipedia

6. Customizable interface: localization and branding Uses Yahoo User Interface CSS, PHP Smarty templates, XML/XSL, AJAX, Javascript

7. ILS specific ‘drivers’ for holding information and availability status Voyager, Aleph, III, SirsiDynix , Koha, Evergreen

8. Faceted search experience

9. “More like this” (algorithmically generated suggestions)

10. Save resource to organized lists

11. Browse

12. Internationalization

13. Social bookmarks

14. Zotero compatible (COINS)

15. Persistent URLs (bookmarkable searches) Persistent URLs (bookmarkable searches)

16. Persistent URLs (bookmarkable searches)

17. RSS feed per search query

18. CiteThis, EmailThis, TextThis

19. Export record to Endnote, Refworks

20. Social features: tagging, comments

25. Technical overview Export MARC records from ILS Use VuFind import facilty Store each record in a separate file Index in Lucene through SOLR web service Delivered SOLR schema.xml for MARC records Searching VuFind communicates with Lucene through SOLR web service Returns unique identifier for records Data of records fetched from filesystem (XSL)

26. VuFind @ ULB Keep VuFind functionality Don’t keep: MARC based Filesystem Import utility; rather OAI harvest

27. Metadata OAI-PMH MySQL Metadata Harvester JDBC Samburu Lucene Lucene doc Indexer SOLR VuFind

28. Metadata exchange format Compound Object DIDL / MODS (*) Metadata OAI-PMH MySQL Metadata DIDL/MODS XML record stored as-is in MySQL field Harvester didl2solr.xsl transform DIDL/MODS XML record intoLucene document, according to specificschema.xml SOLR config file <originalRecord> containscompleteDIDL/MODS record JDBC Samburu Lucene Lucene doc Indexer SOLR solr2brief.xsl solr2full.xsl transform <originalRecord> fieldinto HTML VuFind (*) http://homepages.ulb.ac.be/~bpauwels/NEEO/WP5/ WP5 Technical guidelines.pdf/

29. VuFind @ ULB DI-fusion Institutional library resources: IR, etheses repo, digithèque, [ catalog, iconothèque] BICTel Regional e-theses repository Unicat Belgian national virtual catalog