Building Union Catalogues with the Talis Platform

This webinar was held on Thursday 22 February 2007, and introduced participants to ways in which components of the Talis Platform make creation of traditional and non-traditional library union catalogues straightforward and cost-effective.

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During the webinar, Rob Styles announced that we are Open Sourcing the interface to Project Cenote. This code is now available here. Rob's video showing developers how to build the "20 minute union catalogue" is available here.

The Powerpoint slides used during the webinar are available here, and we hope to make audio available shortly.

Items referenced during the webinar include;

• Silkworm Directory; "a community-maintained repository for metadata about collections, services and the organisations that maintain them"
• A Developer interface to one Talis Platform data store; bibliographic data from UK libraries
• A Developer interface to a second Talis Platform data store; bibliographic holdings from UK libraries
• Project Cenote
• Project Whisper
• Tim Hodson's LibMap
• Information on how to use the Talis Platform's Bibliographic Deep Linking API
• Amazon Libraries extension to the Firefox web browser