NDL Search (beta)

http://iss.ndl.go.jp/

Kosuke TanabeKeio University, Tokyo, Japan

@nabeta

What is NDL Search?

New discovery interface of National Diet Library– Developmemt started on Jan, 2010– First beta released on Aug, 2010

Features– searching library catalogs, digital archives, and

reference records– query translations from Japanese

into English / Chinese / Korean– finding the closest library that has the book

you search for

Built on open-source softwares

Next-L Enju– storing and managing metadata– providing user interface and Web APIs– RSS / Atom / SRU / DCNDL(RDF)

Hadoop– automatic grouping of bibliographic data– creating Solr index

GETassoc– getting related keywords

Solr, Heritrix and PostgreSQL

Next-L Enju

Open-source ILS (like Koha and EverGreen)developed by library community in Japan– http://github.com/nabeta/next-l– Written in Ruby on Rails– implements FRBR structure

5 libraries use (or are planning to use) Enju

Retrieved from http://iss.ndl.go.jp/information/system/

Schedules

New betas are released every month– optimized for smartphone– improving performance

Official version will be released on Jan, 2012– any comments are welcome!

Links

NDL Search http://iss.ndl.go.jp/

Next-L Enju http://github.com/nabeta/next-l– Demo: http://enju.slis.keio.ac.jp/– On Heroku: http://enju.heroku.com/– Project site (in Japanese) http://www.next-l.jp/

GETassoc http://getassoc.cs.nii.ac.jp/