1. NDL Search (beta)
http://iss.ndl.go.jp/
Kosuke Tanabe
Keio University, Tokyo, Japan
@nabeta

3. What is NDL Search?
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New discovery interface of National Diet Library
– Developmemt started on Jan, 2010
– First beta released on Aug, 2010
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Features
– searching library catalogs, digital archives, and
reference records
– query translations from Japanese
into English / Chinese / Korean
– finding the closest library that has the book
you search for

4. Built on open-source softwares
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Next-L Enju
– storing and managing metadata
– providing user interface and Web APIs
– RSS / Atom / SRU / DCNDL(RDF)
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Hadoop
– automatic grouping of bibliographic data
– creating Solr index
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GETassoc
– getting related keywords
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Solr, Heritrix and PostgreSQL

5. Next-L Enju

Open-source ILS (like Koha and EverGreen)
developed by library community in Japan
– http://github.com/nabeta/next-l
– Written in Ruby on Rails
– implements FRBR structure
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5 libraries use (or are planning to use) Enju

6. Retrieved from http://iss.ndl.go.jp/information/system/

11. Schedules

New betas are released every month
– optimized for smartphone
– improving performance
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Official version will be released on Jan, 2012
– any comments are welcome!

12. Links
 NDL Search http://iss.ndl.go.jp/
 Next-L Enju http://github.com/nabeta/next-l
– Demo: http://enju.slis.keio.ac.jp/
– On Heroku: http://enju.heroku.com/
– Project site (in Japanese) http://www.next-l.jp/
 GETassoc http://getassoc.cs.nii.ac.jp/