http://www.vufind.org/
http://fish4info.org
Yesterday, we had a great demo from Chris Harris of Genessee Valley BOCES on their fish4info.org site.
Fish4info (still in the early stages of production, but soon to be open source) and VuFind (open source, released this summer) are products that will allow libraries to essentially replace an ILS's poor user interface OPAC by displaying catalog data in an easier format for patrons to use that also integrates Web 2.0 features. While Fish4Info is tailored more towards K-12 school libraries, VuFind is more of a broad spectrum product. Our library has also been working on a similar grant project and if everything goes right *fingers crossed* will start creating an open source product in the coming months. Exciting stuff!
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So is Fish4Info just a Drupal install aimed at libraries? Does it import catalog holdings into Drupal as pages or anything or is that all manually entered?
Also, do you think it is more productive to create a competing product to Vufind and others rather than contributing to existing open source projects? It just seems that being able to collaborate on these things is the whole point of open source, in order to get really nice software that uses a large collective knowledgebase.
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