Replacing a Legacy Library Catalog with the Redis Library Service Platform
Jeremy Nelson
- Audience level:
- Intermediate
- Category:
- Education
Description
While commercial software for libraries tend to be complicated and expensive that do not support most modern metadata standards, the open-source Redis Library Services Platform offers an alternative with lightweight HTML5 apps that interact with either a single or cluster Redis datastore.
Abstract
Academic, public, K-12, and special libraries, normally use complicated and expensive vendor enterprise products for managing their collections of books, magazines, DVDs, CDs, and online resources. The Redis Library Services Platform is an open-source bibliographic and semantic web platform being developed by the Tutt Library at Colorado College in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The platform consists of two open-source projects; the Aristotle Library App and the BIBFRAME Datastore. The Aristotle Library Apps project uses Django, Bootstrap, Knockout.js, to provide HTML5 and JSON interfaces to either a single Redis instance or to a cluster of Redis instances.