Essentials
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Must run on an SQL database.
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SQL database must be accessible to customer or 3rd party applications via *DBC or native network connections |
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Must have plans for IP6 support |
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Must have SIP2 server capable of authenticating against the borrower records. |
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SIP2 server must be accessible to customer or 3rd party applications via network connection |
Technical questions
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How do you provide enhanced content such as reviews, images and annotations? |
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Can this enhanced content be reused elsewhere on Web site?
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Is this enhanced content connected by remote access or do we store locally? |
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To what extent can users modify or enhance medata such as ratings, reviews, tags etc? |
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Do you allow for linked folksonomies (tagging) or do you have plans to allow this if we built our own system? |
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If you allow user generated content, where is it drawn from? For instance, is it just the local system, a consortium, or 3rd party such as LibraryThing? |
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What, if any, APIs do you provide? |
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If yes, how are these handled during upgrades or if they break, what is the support? |
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How customizable is the interface? Can you give us examples? |
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Do you provide search widgets to use in other areas of Web site? |
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Can you incorporate other content into an integrated search? |
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How do they plan to be part of Web 2.0? |
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What possibilities for mashups are there? |
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What catalog interfaces do you support? |
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What 3rd party Web products do you partner with? |
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Hardware: x86, sparc? |
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Operating System: Linux, Windows, Solaris? |
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Protocols already supported SIP2, NCIP, SMTP, FTP, etc. |
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What’s the policy on customizations through an upgrade? |
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What language translation is supported such as Spanish, Russian, etc.?
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What kind of pre-existing support for specific front-ends exist such as default, Aquabrowser, Endeca, etc.
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Is there any built-in authentication system for Web databases?
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Do they support Shibboleth, ldap, kerberos, etc.? |
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Do they support cataloging other organization’s online content MARC export?
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What about persistent links to catalog? Do they work remotely? Do they support Federated searching or One Stop searching? How about local content?
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How does the ILS work with OCLC products? |
Database
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Oracle, Mysql, MSSQL, Postgres, etc |
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ODBC, JDBC, native? |
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What reports system is used? |
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Application code
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Which languages are used? |
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Is the source open? What is the policy on forking?
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Presentation
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Web–which language? Validated? |
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Usable on portables (iphone, pda, etc)? |
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Specific browser versions/plugins/resolutions required?
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ADA friendly? |
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Below is a list of current integration components that we use or might use. Will system integrate with these?
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3M Selfcheck |
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Tracker |
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Metrologic USB scanner |
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EZproxy |
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Homework Helper |
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Overdrive |
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Aquabrowser |
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iTiva |
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Syndetics |
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Serials Solutions |
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LOL |
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LTI – Authority control |
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Self return |
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Quick chat |
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Question Point |
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Evanced calendar |
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Overdrive |
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Databases – Gale, EBSCO and more |
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Alexander Street streaming audio and video |
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In-house created databases such as magazine listings, podcasts, booklists |
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Filed under: Remote Access/Third Party Integration, Web Integration
