Digital Library Federation Forum, April 12,
2006
Unbundling the ILS: Deploying an e-commerce
catalog search solution
nEndeca doesn’t understand MARC data / MARC-8 character encoding – translate to UTF-8 text files
nEach night a script updates the data indexed by
Endeca:
–Exports updated
or new MARC records from Unicorn.
–Reformats and
merges these records with those already indexed.
–Starts Endeca
re-index – completely rebuilding index for the catalog.
nProcess requires about 7 hours.
nRetain Web2 OPAC for some functionality
–Authority
searching - known items and cross-references
–Detailed record
pages – how to make Endeca -> Web2 link?
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