1. How to Develop Functionality Around the Voyager System - or why you never should reconsider your workflow issues Tomas Friberg / LIBRIS

2. History of LIBRIS Why this lecture? - Inspiration Workflow issues and the Clash of Cultures Tradition & Openness 1975– Mainframe for cataloguing 1987– National ILL System 1998–2000 Dynix Horizon January 2002 Live with voyager National issues & Customer demands

3. LIBRIS structure App. 9 million bib, 16 million MFHD Some 350 libraries in LIBRIS Co-operative cataloguing ”Everyone” catalogues in LIBRIS Every location is a library –Or a bibliography No items LIBRIS export data to local systems

4. LIBRIS department A project based working environment –5 Programmers/developers –2 Systems Librarians –2 Information –2 Support –1 Senior system administrator –1 Unix System Administrator –1 Technician –1 Training and ILL –1 Bibliographic questions –1 Deputy Director –1 Director Development –Java, XML & XSLT –Visual basic, ASP

5. Voyager system Acquisitions Circulation WebVoyáge Z39.50-server ILL Cataloguing Sysadmin X X X X X ? Oracle DB Marcexport X Reporter Callslip X X

6. LIBRIS system TONE WebSearch LIBRIS ILL LIBRIS XP LISENSE Cataloguing Sysadmin Oracle DB Statistics & New Acq. Support appl. LIBRIZ Library DB

7. LIBRIS WebSearch Our equivalent of WebVoyage (1997-) Java, XML, XSLT on top of BRS App. 5 million records Nightly batch-export Accessibility data (Loan status information) TONE - LIBRIS Z39.50 server –z3950.libris.kb.se:210/LIBR

8. LIBRIS ILL Developed in 2001 by LIBRIS Webb and windows version App. 500.000 requests/year Some 1300 libraries use Retrieves bibrecords from voyager

9. LIBRIS XP Some 15 different library systems Export records –Nightly batch export –Via LIBRIS XP (Windows) –Via a special web interface –Via Tone –Via WebSearch Conversions –Characters VRLIN, Latin-1 or Unicode –MARC manipulations –Information enhancement

10. Import MatchMaker –Creation of MFHDs from a text file Regular import – LC, BNB & DB Deduplication program LISENSE & ZHarvester Web cataloguing

11. Statistics & New Acquisitions Not sufficient to customer demands MySQL database (a Copy) –Data retrieved from voyager –Data processed –Data stored in ”presentation tables”

14. Statistics & New Acquisitions Not sufficient to customer demands MySQL database (a Copy) –Data retrieved from voyager –Data processed –Data stored in ”presentation tables” New Books List / Michael Doran Swedish specific issues Generate reports on the fly

15. Support applications LIBRIZ –A ”copy” of LIBRIS in MySQL Copy BibID ISSN-harvester Dewey/SAB concordance CXZ-listserv

16. For and Against Vulnerability –Shovelling of data The right staff –Maintain their competence Control –Machines –Develop functionality –Customer needs

17. Future A new cataloguing client –Project with Stockholm university library –Replace voyager cataloguing client and the local systems cataloguing client

18. Future system Voyager cat client Voyager DB Local cat client Local system DB

19. Future system LIBRIS Cat client Voyager cat client X Voyager DB Local cat client X Local system DB LIBRIZ DB