How to Develop Functionality Around the Voyager System

- or why you never should reconsider

your workflow issues

Tomas Friberg / LIBRIS

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

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

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

Voyager system

Acquisitions

Circulation

WebVoyáge

Z39.50-serverILL

Cataloguing

Sysadmin

X X XXX

?Oracle DB Marcexport

X

ReporterCallslipXX

LIBRIS system

TONE

WebSearch

LIBRIS ILL

LIBRIS XPLISENSE

Cataloguing

Sysadmin Oracle DBStatistics &

New Acq.

Support appl.

LIBRIZ

Library DB

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

LIBRIS ILL

• Developed in 2001 by LIBRIS

• Webb and windows version

• App. 500.000 requests/year

• Some 1300 libraries use

• Retrieves bibrecords from voyager

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

Import

• MatchMaker– Creation of MFHDs from a text file

• Regular import – LC, BNB & DB

• Deduplication program

• LISENSE & ZHarvester

• Web cataloguing

Statistics & New Acquisitions

• Not sufficient to customer demands

• MySQL database (a Copy)– Data retrieved from voyager– Data processed– Data stored in ”presentation tables”

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

Support applications

• LIBRIZ– A ”copy” of LIBRIS in MySQL

• Copy BibID

• ISSN-harvester

• Dewey/SAB concordance

• CXZ-listserv

For and Against

• Vulnerability – Shovelling of data

• The right staff– Maintain their competence

• Control– Machines– Develop functionality– Customer needs

Future

• A new cataloguing client– Project with Stockholm university library– Replace voyager cataloguing client and the

local systems cataloguing client

Future system

Voyager cat client

Voyager DB

Local cat client

Local system DB

Future system

LIBRIS Cat client

Voyager cat clientX

Voyager DB

Local cat client

XLocal system DB

LIBRIZ DB