‡biblios.net: Open Source Community Cataloging Gets Busy
The brilliant Nicole Engard has created a wonderful tool for catalogers called ‡biblios.net. It is a community cataloging tool from LibLime (creators of the open source ILS Koha and other open source products). ‡biblios.net is licensed under the Open Data Commons to make it open to all.
What does it do? It is "a web-based original and copy cataloging tool with built in federated search of any Z39.50 target (via an integrated search registry with over 2000 targets – or by adding your own) and a large (30 million strong) shared database of catalog records." I'm not a cataloger (though I loved it in library school), but to me this sounds like a direct competitor to the OCLC records database. And an open one accessible to any library for free and without use restrictions.
To learn more, you'd best read Nicole's whole post to really tap into the wonderful juiciness of this new tool available to all libraries for free.
February 3rd, 2009 at 4:41 am
Sarah – I can’t take credit for it
I was simply an adivsor to the developers who did all of the work. I’m just so proud of their work and the tool itself that I’m advertising it everywhere I can 