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SOPAC for Sirsi? Yes we can.

john — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:15:12 +0000

Sean Robinson from Allen County Public Library has just posted a HOWTO on getting SOPAC to work with Sirsi. This makes them the first to write a Locum connector for another ILS. This means that SOPAC can now be used with Innovative’s Millennium and Sirsi.

Anyone else? Koha? Evergreen?

Announcement on TheSocialOPAC.net

SOPAC 2 Released. Thesocialopac.net Launched.

john — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:16:33 +0000

So, I may have been a little ambitious when I thought I could get SOPAC2, Locum, and Insurge released within a week of launching the new darienlibrary.org. But I can now finally say that SOPAC2 is officially released and a new project website launched.

You can visit the new site and download the software at TheSocialOPAC.net.

The purpose of the site is to help a build a community of developers and users around the SOPAC project suite. It will undoubtably grow over time as the software does. We have big plans for SOPAC and invite you all to join the community.

Source code for virtual card catalog images

john — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 22:34:30 +0000

I can't tell you how many people have emailed me about getting the source code to the virtual card catalog images I announced a few weeks ago. Anyway, I've finally gotten around to stripping out all the garbage from the script that generates the images, and I'm releasing it here (and as always, it'll be available in the files section). There are a few things you need to keep in mind about it, however.

First, this code is written for use with III's XMLOPAC and requires my PHP XMLOPAC class. That said, an astute PHP coder could easily port this app and make it usable on another system (I heartily encourage that). Someday, I plan to make it completely generic so that all you need to do is pass it the data itself. I'm a little busy at the moment, however.

I am not releasing the card stock images that AADL uses. There was no license info associated with the original images. Until I can contact the folks at UPenn and find out what the deal is, I'm not going to make them available. It'd be very easy to create your own stock, however.

Same deal with the fonts. I was able to freely download them--so should you.

At present, this code is really meant for developers, it is not a "package" that will work out of the box. You must know what you're doing in order to get this going.

I'm releasing it under GPL for all the world to use freely, forever and ever.

Included in the tarball is a README file with some basic instructions. Be sure to read that before emailing me your questions.

Enjoy. I'm looking forward to some possible creative uses. Please email me if you get it working as I'd love to see what you're doing with it. If you come up with a particularly interesting use, I'll be sure to showcase it here.

[tags]PHP, Programming, Virtual Card Catalog, AADL, Web 2.0, Library 2.0, Open Source[/tags]

III XMLOPAC Class update

john — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 20:47:08 +0000

After a fair amount of work, I'm releasing an update to the iii-xmlopac class. I've been sitting on this update for awhile because it's a fairly big update and I wanted to make sure it was performing like it should. I highly recommend that anyone using this class update because a number of fairly critical bugs have been fixed, including a messy tangle of UTF8 encoding issues.

In addition, I've included an XSLT file written by David Walker which I've modified slightly. It allows me to easily extract subject headings from the XML, so yes, this class now will return an array of subject headings!!

So, be sure to download the latest version. As always, you can grab it anytime from the files section.