SRU Open Search
This project aims to provide a customisable search interface for displaying SRU formatted XML.
This initial release targets Intralibrary version 2.9, although with a little tweaking it should work with any SRU stream.
If you'd like to discuss any issues or problems please drop by the discussion area, we cant guarantee a reply but we'll do our best to help out.
We'd also like to hear any ideas you might have to improve the service. Checkout the wishlist discussion.
http://groups.google.com/group/sru-open-search
Features
- Highly configurable via settings files
- Customisable look & feel (CSS)
- XHTML 1.0 Strict doctype
- Search on record metadata with a single click
- Send to friend & Notify of a problem functions
- Bookmarkable pages, so you can share a page of results via email
- Share items via social bookmarking sites (Delicious, Digg, Google)
- Featured audio highlighting - inline mp3 player via flash
- Featured content highlighting
- New & Updated content highlighting
- Logging of Email sent through system with Akismet spam protection
- Logging of search terms
- Visualisation of search terms via pie chart, tag cloud & tree map
- Progressive enhancement via javascript (jquery)
- Spell Checker (via local service or 3rd party)
- Auto suggest search box
- Portable version of search so users can add to their own site
- Browser search plugin for Firefox & Internet Explorer (inc Auto Suggest)
- Intelligent caching of SRU results
- Non-intrusive debugging via firefox/firebug
- Google Analytics support
System Requirements
Essential
- PHP (min 5.1.6)
Optional
- MySQL (min 5.0.18) - Only required for logging functionality
- Apache webserver (optional although you may need to configure your own hosting platform to support mod_rewrite type functionality)
- Perl (for local spelling suggestion)
- Aspell & Aspell perl wrapper(for local spelling suggestion)
Notes
This was developed, tested & deployed on a Linux Apache web server. In theory any platform capable of running PHP & MySQL should work.
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