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