Subject: [NGC4LIB] eXtensible Catalog (XC) Software webcast

From: Eric Lease Morgan <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 08:18:58 -0500

> From: "Lindahl, David" <[email-masked]>
> Date: February 1, 2010 2:47:11 PM EST
> Subject: eXtensible Catalog (XC) Software webcast
> 
> A new webcast on eXtensible Catalog software is now available:
>  
> http://www.screencast.com/users/eXtensibleCatalog
>  
> XC Software Portfolio (80 minute webcast)
> 
> January 29, 2010
> 
> This presentation includes a detailed description of eXtensible Catalog software including screen captures from the Drupal user interface and Metadata Services Toolkit. Tools for connectivity between an ILS and standard protocols like OAI-PMH and NCIP are also covered.  The presentation includes software architecture and network diagrams.
> 
> This webcast is broken up into four parts.  The total length is 80 minutes and each of the applications is described in detail.  There is a brief text description of the contents of each segment.

A couple of weeks ago I saw a preview of the XC webcast described above. It describes things such as:

  1) XC
  2) what it is accomplishing
  3) the software they have made available
  4) how the whole thing fits together to solve real problems

It is worth the time of both catalogers as well as software engineers. Standards compliant. Useful. Elegant. Forward thinking. Sensitive to everybody's needs and desires.

-- 
Eric Lease Morgan
Head, Digital Access and Information Architecture Department
University of Notre Dame