[Zope] Zope Integrated Library System

[Joachim Schmitz]

Hi,

I am an longtime Zope-programmer and very much interested in such projects, =

but I don't know anything about ILS at all. But I am sure, if it can be=20
done with PHP, it can be easely done better with Zope ;-)

Can you give me some hints about the ILS data-format, how is it related to=20
ISIS ?
What does Openbiblio implement.


--On Montag, Juni 03, 2002 15:29:15 +0000 Tim Chase <chase@iac.net> wrote:

> Zope folks,
>
> I have been a python programmer for about as long as I have been a
> librarian, which is seven years. I consult with a large metropolitan
> library regarding their automated systems. I recently began the
> planning stages of taking over as the sole librarian at a local church
> and at a very small high school.
>
> I am familiar with the Integrated Library System (ILS) products from
> most of the major vendors, so I am also familiar with their prices and
> problems. I began looking for an Open Source option for my new
> libraries (see http://www.oss4lib.org). There are only a few viable
> options. Koha is a Perl/MySql system currently used in several New
> Zealand public libraries. There are two SourceForge projects that have
> semi-working catalog and circulation systems: OpenBiblio and
> PhpMyLibrary, both using PHP/MySql.
>
> Judging from Slashdot
> (http://slashdot.org/askslashdot/00/08/22/2040245.shtml), very few
> programmers have an appreciation for the complexity of an ILS. Zope has
> been identified by the library community as a tool for patron portals
> (see http://www.oss4lib.org), but I can't find any mention of a
> Zope-based ILS, maybe because Zope programmers do appreciate the
> complexities of metadata and dealing with the MARC format.
>
> All of that was prelude to this: Zope seems like the ideal platform for
> an ILS. I am more of a Zope integrator than a Zope developer, but it
> seems like an ILS in Zope would be less complicated and more flexible
> than a similar program using another framework.
>
> OCLC has a MARC to Dublin Core translator
> (http://alcme.oclc.org/marc2dc/index.html). I assume that something
> like this could be used to populate catalog records and possibly even
> holdings records (there is a MARC format for Holdings Information).
>
> What are your thoughts? I have no experience designing such a large
> system, but I would much rather use a Zope-based ILS than any of the
> current Open Source offerings.
>
> Thanks for your time,
>
> --Tim Chase
> chase@iac.net
>
>
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