OpacPress – semantic union catalogue
Joss Winn has blogged about a possible next stage in developing our idea of using WordPress MU+Scriblio+Triplify to create a flexible, devolved ‘union-catalogue-lite‘ Web2.0-age OPAC ecosystem. It’s going to require funding, and clearer thinking.
Our lightning presentation received a muted response at Mash Oop North, but I’m sure that there’s a corker of an idea in here somewhere. Over to Joss:
“Imagine that JISC, Talis or Eduserv offered such a platform to UK university libraries. It could be a service, not unlike wordpress.com, where authorised institutions, could self-register for a site and easily import their OPAC, apply a theme, tweak some CSS, choose from a few useful plugins, and within less than a day or two, have a branded, cutting-edge search and browse interface to their OPAC, running under their own domain.”
