Summit changes in 2008

Announcement April 10, 2008: Summit to move to a new system

General information about the migration project for Summit Catalog and Summit Borrowing

Digital Services program website for Summit Migration and Summit Migration News

Implementation Team homepage overseeing migration activities.

Specific working groups: INN-Reach operations and shut-down. Catalog - Records: reclamation and batch loading. Catalog - Holdings/Status. Catalog - 856 Hotlinks.

Lingo

Navigator = OCLC WorldCat with VDX and Circulation Gateway bells & whistles, i.e. the new software behind Summit and Summit Borrowing.

NRE= Navigator Request Engine. See VDX & Circ Gateway.

Group catalog = OCLC WorldCat view showing Alliance member libraries first. Replaces the INN-Reach "union catalog" called Summit.

VDX & Circ gateway = Virtual Document Exchange, and software linking OCLC VDX with the local library circ system. Replaces INN-Reach circ software used for Summit Borrowing. The "new" name for VDX is NRE.

SRU = Search and Retrieve via URL. A technology to get information. Website with more information about SRU and SRW. What Tech folks say about SRU (and the rest of us think is fun to read):

SRW Without the SOAP Wrapper
Intended for Thin Clients
Adds ResponseSchema Parameter

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