Welcome to the summer! I realize it’s a busy time for you folks in the public libraries (with Summer Reading and all), and I appreciate the time you take to keep up with the Evergreen project.
As usual, work on Evergreen is proceeding on schedule, and we expect a solid Alpha release in July. The Alpha release will contain many new critical features, as well as improvement and refinement of features that have been released previously. Here are some highlights:
If you had asked me three weeks ago how one might go about creating a federated search interface that could intelligently combine the results from academic and public libraries, I would have shrugged. If you had then asked how one might go about integrating search results from other sources, such as online journal indexes, weblogs, Amazon.com and Google I might have laughed. But if you had waited another week and asked I would have pointed you to this.
So I’ve been pretty slack about posting dev stuff as of late. I can blame most of my silence on being busy writing code, but I won’t have that excuse pretty soon. With any luck we’ll be able to slow down a bit after July (watch for the alpha release!) and I’ll get to do some brain dumping here.