It’s Official
WPopac, a project I started on my nights and weekends, is now officially one of my day-job projects too.
We’ve been using our WPopac-based catalog as a prototype since February 2006, but the change not only allocates a portion of my work time specifically to the development of the project, but also reflects the library’s decision to transition to WPopac as a our primary web OPAC.
Work to make a general release of the WPopac software available for download and use by any library (or anybody who wants to present structured data with faceted searching on the web) is in progress. And, as noted here, I’m also working with other libraries to bring WPopac-based catalogs online elsewhere.
In the meantime, I’m headed to WordCamp in San Francisco on August 5th, and the new WPopac blog has become the official source of news and information regarding the project.
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[...] WPopac is OfficialMaison Bisson has revealed that his library has been using WPopac since February 2006. On the basic level, it’s the use of Wordpress, a blogging software, as a Web Catalogue. It allows for comments and reviews to be posted by readers. There is also Technorati tags for easy searching. His library plans to release the source code for WPopac in the near future. Would be good to see if we can use this for our Web Catalogue.(via MaisonBisson). [...]
Take this as a friendly question: Will the official version include, say, pages, year of publication, publisher, or even the fact that something is a book as opposed to a video or sound recording?
I think it’s a really interesting project–but when I finally went to try it, I was a little stumped by the lack of descriptive information. (I’m one of those who actually might care about the difference between a 200-page and 800-page book on the same subject, or between a 1940 and 2004 book on, say, biochemistry.)
Maybe I’m missing it…
[Which is another way to say: There's a lot "right" about WPOpac, which made what's "wrong" stand out more...]
I am intrigued by your WOpac and was wondering if you had seen AjaxWp.
I think AjaxWp could really add to the wonderful work you have already done!
The URL I have for the WOpac doesn’t seem to be working. I’d like to use it for a presentation tomorrow morning. Has it moved from:
http://www.plymouth.edu/library/opac/
[...] Walt is among those that I think will appreciate these changes, but I’m anxious to point out, despite this gleeful post on the subject, how pedestrian these changes are. That is, anybody with a bit of skill with XHTML and PHP — say any of the thousands of people developing themes for WordPress — should be able to shape the record templates to their liking in moments. [...]
[...] Walt is among those that I think will appreciate these changes, but I’m anxious to point out, despite this gleeful post on the subject, how pedestrian these changes are. That is, anybody with a bit of skill with XHTML and PHP — say any of the thousands of people developing themes for WordPress — should be able to shape the record templates to their liking in moments. [...]
[...] to the library. Maintain the official categorization as well as the public tags. There’s a wordpress implementation of this very [...]
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