GSoC 2008 Ideas

Scriblio hasn’t been selected as an approved GSoC 2008 project, but here are some ideas for what we might do if it is:

• Rich OpenSearch support, including support for search suggestions and facets.
• Development of a PHP-based z39.50 class with few dependencies.
• OAI (Open Archives Interface) import and output.
• Improved internationalization and CJK support (based on the work of HKUST)
• Improved MARC file import.
• Import and integration support for additional ILSs.

Ideas from the WordPress community that are especially interesting for Scriblio:

• “Extending the search system to support more advanced search syntax, relevance, and external APIs like Google or Yahoo’s.” as mentored by Lloyd Budd and Alex Shiels
• “Batch editing of post and attachment attributes such as categories, tags, author” as mentored by Lloyd Budd and Alex Shiels
• Any of the performance and scaling ideas mentored by Mahmoud Al-Qudsi.