Evergreen ILS
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Disclaimer: This entry contains about a dozen acronyms and may make non-techies cross-eyed.
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One of the nice things about designing a new system is that you get to use the latest and greatest toys (err, tools). 😀 It has been mentioned before that the use of XML in Evergreen is pretty pervasive. We make use of MARC21Slim and MODS for bibliographic data, XMPP for Jabber messaging, XUL for widget layout, XHMTL for OPAC, and we even subclass LibXML for some internal domain objects.
Things have been moving along very well in the Evergreen development project since my last PINES Executive Committee Report. We are now actually ahead of schedule and the project is running more smoothly than we initially expected and planned for. We hope this bodes well for the rest of the project.
On Friday, December 17th, the PINES Software Development staff conducted presentations on the Evergreen project at the PINES Executive Committee meeting in Dawsonville, Georgia. We covered widely varying areas of the software in these presentations. In this written report, I am going to glean some of the more interesting or important points from those presentations and also add a little additional in-depth information.