What’s Hot in Finland Ere Maijala IT Research Specialist The National Library of Finland Hint: It’s not the weather

Hottest Now: Aleph Central Catalog Replication to local Voyager catalogs Integration of local holdings information to Aleph OPAC Enhancements to Aleph OPAC A web tool for Aleph operator account management A web tool for Aleph cataloguing statistics Enhanced HTML cataloguing helps based on XML files

Replication Aleph -> Voyagers Perl daemon running on Voyager server/database Polls Aleph for changes (VST Server) Gets records via SRU Gets additional info via X-Server Filters records Mangles 001 etc. Imports to Voyager using bulk import Bib records only Would benefit from an API allowing add/change/delete of bib records in Voyager

Voyager Holdings in Aleph In Voyager –cgi script providing holdings and status info in XML (kind of like the Voyager 7 web service, but a bit more) In Aleph –cgi script XML -> JSON –jQuery-based JavaScript that integrates it in the OPAC

More Aleph Stuff OPAC Enhancer –Allows rewriting HTML before it’s sent out from Apache –Longer text fields –Translations –Absolutely and completely unsupported way of hooking to Aleph OPAC –Fixes HTTP headers to correctly include CR+LF instead of LF only (which violates RFC 2616) Javascript for optionally hiding subject headings and classifications

Even More Aleph Stuff Duplicate record merger Automatic invalid duplicate splitter AlephRecord perl class Reference management Monitoring –Weekly space report by –Real time status monitor

Aleph Problems Aleph X-Server –Fatal: Drops linking subfield 6 (multiscript records) –Can’t update LOW fields –Invalid tags cause invalid XML Aleph OPAC HTML Templates –Uh oh, they actually did a pretty good job renovating the structure in MetaLib… –Decluttering the default OPAC takes a lot of work Statistics: need to scrape logs for cataloguer info etc.

SFX bX installed Noticeable slowdown How about AJAX version? How about a more AJAXified SFX Menu? –Slow plugins etc. wouldn’t cause so much trouble –Trouble with display logic, but those could be overcome… –Fallback to the classic menu

National Digital Library The Public Interface project – A discovery layer for all libraries, museums and archives Requests to participate in the procurement have been received. Can’t talk about it more, sorry.

DigiTool Just installed For digitised books and such Some challenges with the METS support not being up to date Install documentation and processes need love

Other Stuff Small MetaLib UI tweaks –Links to First and Last page in eShelf (D’OH!) –Deep links in the UI (bottom of the page) Oh, how I wish there was a way to link to full records –Popup menu for Find Database to make the functionality more discoverable Move to Shibboleth 2 in MetaLib –Needed to hack PDS Digitool installation

Wish List Fix the issues