a django ILS

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Hey all, 

I am starting an effort to finish up a django based ILS for a booksharing or distrubuted library site.  The idea is that folks loan books to the institution(s) and are further lent out from there.  Lending privilages are extended through the admin backend, so if no one fiddles back there then the ILS is a regular one, except it keeps track of who initially gave the book to the library (could be self).

Right now it uses a simple sorted list of book titles as the "discovery layer".  If the project goes anywhere (like, if anyone gets over 1,000 books in their system), I'd like to use VuFind or Kochief.  Are there any demo sites of Kochief that I can point potential collaborators to?  Is the project innactive just because it is working well enough or is it bugged and dead?

you can see the ils at beta.clearviewsudburyschool.org/bookshare/

(note: the cataloging app is more complicated than presented.  It used to create a form and populate it for every field found in the MARC, as well as create blank forms for wanted information that was not in the MARC.  But, since I dont know MARC fields well, I decided not to make it default to keep information I wasn't expecting.  Still, that behavior, or a modification of it, can be reawakened.  )

  

[Gabriel Farrell]

The project is inactive because no one is running it in an environment
where features must be added or bugs squashed. It's at a "working well
enough for me" level for some small collections at
http://sets.library.drexel.edu/.

If you do get to the point where a discovery layer seems useful, do
look at the code for ideas. If it's useful as a whole project, please
use it. If you squash bugs or come up with features that could be of
use to others, please let me know on this list and we'll see about
getting that code into the project.

For something of this nature (searching in Django) you might also look
at Haystack (http://haystacksearch.org/), which has generalized the
concept in interesting ways.

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[Ted Lawless]

I've implemented Kochief - with minor modifications - for two projects
recently. I agree that it works well as is, which is to the credit of
those who have contributed.

I also have used it for prototyping faceted search interfaces for two
different APIs and find it useful for exploratory work like that.

With MARC based bibliographic data:
http://library.brown.edu/titles

With Solr index built from MODS data:
http://library.brown.edu/cds/projects/quran/search

Ted Lawless

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I thought it was probably in a good-enough-for-me state.

thanks for the links.