bye bye WebOPAC

We are talking very seriously at the University of Winnipeg about ditching our WebOPAC in favour of our own RedLightGreen-style search interface. We will be dumping all our MARC records out to XML and building our own interface: at least I hope so. ...

The key for us will be the ability to query and write to the Oracle DB underlying our Innopac system. This should give us the opportunity to develop components in OLAF iteratively, maintaining those staff functions that we can't easily build a system for. We already have a number of open source components installed/built and in operation (MyCybrary, ILL, Offline Circulation, Spine Labels, E Resource Management, Linking, Repository), so there are not too many left.

Link: Loomware - Crafting New Libraries: Folksonomies Help Information Organization.

And how will the new system be organized?

I am convinced that folksonomy is the way to go with our library catalogues.

I am completely in agreement with this approach; I will be watching its success closely.