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Designing web-scale discovery systems using the VuFind open source software

Bijan Kumar Roy (Department of Library and Information Science, University of Burdwan, Burdwan, India)
Subal Chandra Biswas (Department of Library and Information Science, University of Burdwan, Burdwan, India)
Parthasarathi Mukhopadhyay (Department of Library and Information Science, University of Burdwan, Burdwan, India)

Library Hi Tech News

ISSN: 0741-9058

Article publication date: 7 August 2018

Issue publication date: 7 August 2018

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Abstract

Purpose

This paper aims to provide an overview of the emergence of resource discovery systems and services along with their advantages and best practices including current landscapes. It reports the development of a resource discovery system by using the “VuFind” software and describes other technological tools, software, standards and protocols required for the development of the prototype.

Design/methodology/approach

This paper describes the process of integrating VuFind (resource discovery tool) with Koha (integrated library system), DSpace (repository software) and Apache Tika (as full-text extractor for full-text searching), etc.

Findings

The proposed model performs like other existing commercial and open source Web-scale resource discovery systems and is capable of harvesting resources from different subscribed or external sources replacing a library’s OPAC.

Originality/value

This discovery system is an important add-on to designing a one-stop access in place of the existing retrieval silos in libraries. This system is capable of indexing a variety of content within and beyond library collections. This work may help library professionals and administrators in designing their discovery system, as well as vendors to improve their products, to provide different library-friendly services.

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Citation

Roy, B.K., Biswas, S.C. and Mukhopadhyay, P. (2018), "Designing web-scale discovery systems using the VuFind open source software", Library Hi Tech News, Vol. 35 No. 3, pp. 16-22. https://doi.org/10.1108/LHTN-12-2017-0088

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Emerald Publishing Limited

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