Started tinkering with a new open source software program called vufind, which uses php, apache, mysql and java. It is mainly a solr project which runs on a jetty server. It is very module and very straight forward to to configure and set up. Adam Brin, the Tri-Colleges Systems Coordinator, has written an Innovative connection for it which is able to grab current status, and location from the catalog. Here is my current instance of vufind. Not a lot of customization yet.
Here are a few ins and outs of the new library server and how it is set up.
The main files all reside in www directory.
There are two directories, libservices and libweb in which we build the web site and web services.
All configuration files are in the etc directory.
For the apache web server files they are kept in /etc/httpd.
There is a conf directory which has the httpd.conf files in it. There is a conf.d directory which has all the specific web server information for the libweb and libserver are kept. Each file which ends in .conf in this directory are included in the virtual machines configuration.
Instead of using powerpoint next time I give a talk I'm going to try and use this sample talk, and see if I can get away from the Microsoft machine.
Spent most of the last day working on an encoding issue. We are brining MARC 8 records from the catalog and we need to convert them to UTF8 before putting them into a MySQL databases. Ended up using MARC::Charset 'marc8_to_utf8', it works great. Then we used an NFC function: $full = NFC($full); before loading the record.
Six big projects will dominate the systems department this summer:
1. New Web Site
2. ILLiad
3. Web Services
4. Resolver
5. Video Database
6. E-Reserve Update
7. Digital Collections
8. Web Server Migration
Many of these projects are tied together, and keeping them all on schedule will be challenging.
The following projects came up at our weekly systems meeting:
1. Serials Solutions has been ordered and we will have a conference all Tuesday.
2. Public Services wants to work on the design and look of their web presence.
3. Bill will upgrade EZproxy and Rich will continue to learn how to update.
4. We will hold off on ordering any equipment until after the break.
5. Bill will create an admin interface to John's stats and the SSRD permissions.
6. Get the include directory removed.
7. Give Joni's group a sample logo to see what it would look like.
8. Can we take check-in records out, change to MARC format and reload?
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