ELiAS Strategic directions for Librivision and Amicus Els Bossier CEO Elias

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ELiASStrategic directions for Librivision and
AmicusEls Bossier CEO Elias
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ELiAS Strategic Directions for AMICUS and
LibriVision

• Kinetica Annual User Meeting
• August 9th 2002

Els BossierGeneral Manager ELiAS n.v.
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AGENDA

• Current Developments
• AMICUS 3.5 highlights
• LibriVision
• Future Developments
• Web client

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AMICUS 3.5

• Incorporates a new search engine from the NLC
  (National Library of Canada)
• Robust and faster
• Brief record display format available for Z39.50
  users
• Portable
• Support for retrieval of Unicode
• Oracle9i and ConText
• Storage of Unicode characters
• Loading of Unicode characters
• New flexible building of sort forms
• Support additional search indexes
• Keyword search on classification

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LibriVision 2.0.6

• Link with digital documents objects
• Full text, images,
• Via MARC tag 856 or via direct hyperlink
• Search, scan, retrieve and display Unicode
  characters

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LibriVision 2.1

• Sorting Merging of Search Results
• My LibriVision
• XSLT/XML technology for Record Parsing
• Direct Relationship link
• OAI searches

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Sample link with digital objects
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Retrieval of a digital object
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Web access via LibriVision
AMICUS and LibriVision today
WWW
Professional Workstations
server
WWW
Other Z39.50 targets
APW
server
Digital server
Remote Z39.50 compliant targets
Central installation of AMICUS and LibriVision
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Web access via LibriVision
Future ...
LibriCat LibriCirc
WWW
server
WWW
Other Z39.50 targets
APW
server
Digital server
Remote Z39.50 compliant targets
Digital server
Central installation of AMICUS and LibriVision
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New Web Client

• Within the LibriVision framework
• LibriVision framework application server
• Integration of customers own developments
• LibriSource LibriStat (University of Leuven)
• Digital applications (San Pablo and University of
  Basque Country)
• Simple Web cataloguing interface

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Web Cataloguing Client

• Fully Unicode compliant
• Flexible, customisable cataloguing interface
• Support for MARC and labelled text editing
• Enhanced copy-cataloguing features
• Direct save of full record
• Easy to add new headings
• On-the-fly conversion of records
• Local storage
• Local validation of records

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1. Select databases
2. Cataloguing
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Material types
Control fields
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Description Name, Title, etc.
Scan DB
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Click, on authors name
Another name
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LibriVision 2.1

• Sorting Merging of Search Results
• My LibriVision
• XSLT/XML technology for Record Parsing
• Direct Relationship link
• OAI searches

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Sample link with digital objects
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Retrieval of a digital object
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Web access via LibriVision
AMICUS and LibriVision today
WWW
Professional Workstations
server
WWW
Other Z39.50 targets
APW
server
Digital server
Remote Z39.50 compliant targets
Central installation of AMICUS and LibriVision
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Web access via LibriVision
Future ...
LibriCat LibriCirc
WWW
server
WWW
Other Z39.50 targets
APW
server
Digital server
Remote Z39.50 compliant targets
Digital server
Central installation of AMICUS and LibriVision
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New Web Client

• Within the LibriVision framework
• LibriVision framework application server
• Integration of customers own developments
• LibriSource LibriStat (University of Leuven)
• Digital applications (San Pablo and University of
  Basque Country)
• Simple Web cataloguing interface

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Web Cataloguing Client

• Fully Unicode compliant
• Flexible, customisable cataloguing interface
• Support for MARC and labelled text editing
• Enhanced copy-cataloguing features
• Direct save of full record
• Easy to add new headings
• On-the-fly conversion of records
• Local storage
• Local validation of records

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1. Select databases
2. Cataloguing
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Material types
Control fields
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Description Name, Title, etc.
Scan DB
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Click, on authors name
Another name
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Change view to MARC21, UNIMARC, Dublin Core, ...
Preview in LV view
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Save all or one items to AMICUS
Possible to save items to AMICUS or to local disk
in XML, MARC21, and other formats
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Thank you!
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