Where are you using the catalog?
A big idea that seems to be hot right now is making the catalog available in contexts outside of the normal OPAC. Whether this is integration with portals or syndication of reading lists/search results via RSS. I’ve even seen talk of IM interfaces or SMS. I’ve messed around with the III XML server a bit to get an idea of what is possible. So far I found that RSS, OpenSearch and similar things are very easy to implement even with as little programming knowledge I have. Here’s what it took me to get OpenSearch working (though crudely):
Innovative XML Server: OpenSearch
So what are you doing with your catalog data? What projects/demo’s do you have?
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