Trip Report: 5th VuFind Conference. Freiburg 11th-12th October 2016

The 5th meeting of German-speaking VuFind users / institutions using VuFind took place in Freiburg 11th to 12th October, 2016. The meeting was attended by Erik.

Conference Program: https://www.ub.uni-freiburg.de/ihre-ub/veranstaltungen/vufind-anwendertreffen/

Workshops:

"Vom Testsystem zum Produktivsystem – Installations-/Update-Strategien"
 * create (multiple) git branch(es) - e.g. feature(s), theme
 * merge branches with current VuFind release to upgrade
 * otherwise code bases are incoherent
 * (main) development branch - feature freeze - merge with master (production)
 * see https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/comparing-workflows/gitflow-workflow

Live videoconferencing session with VuFind Summit 2016

Villanova - strategic notes
 * feature: geographic search integration, visualize records with geographic info
 * get rid of jquerymobile theme
 * get rid of VuFind statistics
 * new SolrMarc, get rid of bsh scripts
 * get rid of google maps support
 * Java 8 Solr 6 php 5.5 (php 7 at some point)

Talks
 * J. Lienhard - Simplify the recordtab phtml templates
 * etc

Marius Zierold (ida-Dachverband) - "VuFind und META: Aktuelle Metadaten und Digitalisate gemeinsam präsentieren"
 * data upload tool (TomCat 7 Webapp)
 * links http://www.meta-katalog.eu/

M. Fuchs (subkom) - "Linguistische und fehlertolerantes Suggest"
 * stemming (approx. 85% relevant hits...overstemming: Kurs -> Kur, Wüste -> Wust, understemming: Atlanten -> Atlas)
 * vs. lemmatization, requires dictionaries, rules
 * also composita (Holzschaft -> Holz, Schaft vs. Seilschaft -> Seil, Schaft)
 * esp. subject-specific composita (jur., etc.)
 * dangerous synonyms e.g. Geschichte/Historie, Gott/Schöpfer, etc.
 * VuFind implementation comprises customized searchbox.phtml & classes
 * comment: generally, dictionaries may be integrated with Solr search

Index Data - FOLIO
 * Apache (license)
 * very modular (small tools)
 * public codebase 2016
 * go live 2018 (1st library in production)
 * Okapi - core API layer
 * VuFind integration vufind-folio
 * internal data format, vocabulary not fixed
 * links
 * http://indexdata.com/node/357
 * http://folio.org
 * http://dev.folio.org

Lightning Talks

How to participate in VuFind development
 * 20% German sites
 * future of German-speaking mailing hist (hosted by GBV)?
 * participate in development calls
 * participate in Slack
 * publish your code transparently on GitHub
 * http://vufind.de (planned)
 * German wishlist, sharing tasks, identify requirement, create tickets, etc

Tübingen, s. https://github.com/ubtue
 * marc_filter
 * may be very fast
 * requires 20-30 C libraries
 * alternatives: Catmandu, note: our current solution is based on MARC::Transform which may not be as fast but allows a maximum of flexibility
 * new journals alert service
 * subjects in multilingual/internationalized environment

Features
 * hierarchical facets in VuFind 3?