Compass

Development Roadmap

Alpha

  • MARCXML Initial Import Script
  • Result Facets
  • Live Status Information
  • LDAP Authentication

Public Beta: 0.5

  • Spelling Correction
  • Tagging and Commenting per Record
  • Save Resources
  • Database Authentication
  • Search History
  • Author Pages
  • More Like This

Public Beta: 0.6 (August)

  • More Like This - strange inclusions
  • Missing book cover images
  • AJAX Login popup doesn't work when scrolled
  • Tagging & Favorites rewrite
  • More advanced installation script
  • Revised Advanced Search
  • Import Data Cleanup
  • User Reports - Checked out items

Public Beta: 0.7 (December)

  • Internationalization
  • Narrow by call number subject area
  • Enhanced User Reports - Fines, etc.
  • Enhanced Browse
  • Enhanced Install Script
  • Zotero Compatibility

Public Beta: 0.8 (April)

  • New Import Script
  • Remove local XML file storage
  • Place Holds and Recalls

Production Release: 1.0 (June)

  • Installation Package (RPM, DEB, MSI)
  • MARC Import Field Map
  • Nightly Purge Script
  • Apache Solr 1.3
  • Native Index Spelling Suggestions
  • OAI Importer
  • Volume Holdings for Serials
  • OpenSearch API
  • Other Editions based on XISBN Service

Production Release: 1.1 (September)

  • Record view page based on Format
  • Federated Search
  • Web-based Administration
  • Authority Index
  • Statistics Gathering and Reporting

Future Development

  • Suggested Resources and Searches
  • Circulation Stats for Popularity, etc.
  • Grouping of similiar items by edition - FRBR
  • Microsoft Research Pane SOAP Service

Catalog Drivers

  • NCIP - Under investigation
  • Voyager - Complete
  • SirsiDynix - Under development
  • Aleph - Functional - Not Complete
  • III - Under development
  • Evergreen
  • Koha - Under development
  • More to Come ...

Releases

VuFind 0.8.2 released (Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:02:54 GMT)

Released at Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:02:54 GMT by asnagy
Includes files: vufind-0.8.2.tar.bz2 (10508797 bytes, 16 downloads to date), vufind-0.8.2.tar.gz (10497863 bytes, 33 downloads to date), vufind-0.8.2.zip (10651579 bytes, 29 downloads to date)
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VuFind 0.8.1 released (Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:02:57 GMT)

Released at Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:02:57 GMT by asnagy
Includes files: vufind-0.8.1.zip (10649831 bytes, 24 downloads to date), vufind-0.8.1.tar.gz (10496445 bytes, 9 downloads to date), vufind-0.8.1.tar.bz2 (10507845 bytes, 11 downloads to date)
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VuFind 0.8 released (Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:26:32 GMT)

Released at Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:26:32 GMT by asnagy
Includes files: vufind-0.8.tar.gz (10559530 bytes, 508 downloads to date)
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VuFind 0.7 released (Wed, 12 Dec 2007 19:32:43 GMT)

Released at Wed, 12 Dec 2007 19:32:43 GMT by asnagy
Includes files: VuFind-0.7.tar.gz (15969438 bytes, 903 downloads to date)
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VuFind 0.6.1 released (Wed, 22 Aug 2007 15:59:31 GMT)

Released at Wed, 22 Aug 2007 15:59:31 GMT by asnagy
Includes files: VuFind-0.6.1.tar.gz (7951149 bytes, 402 downloads to date)
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VuFind 0.6 released (Thu, 16 Aug 2007 18:03:55 GMT)

Released at Thu, 16 Aug 2007 18:03:55 GMT by asnagy
Includes files: VuFind-0.6.tar.gz (7952238 bytes, 682 downloads to date)
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VuFind 0.5 released (Tue, 17 Jul 2007 17:56:51 GMT)

Released at Tue, 17 Jul 2007 17:56:51 GMT by asnagy
Includes files: VUFind-0.5.tgz (7736414 bytes, 703 downloads to date)
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Downloads
The first public release is available in beta status. Visit the download page.
Falvey Memorial Library


VuFind is developed and maintained by Villanova University's Falvey Memorial Library.

News

Version 0.8 is now available
March 18, 2008 - We are proud to announce the release of VuFind 0.8. (0 comments)
Version 0.7 is now available
December 12, 2007 - We are proud to announce the release of VuFind 0.7. This release is chock full of enhancements and new features. There are no major backend changes so an upgrade should be very easy. (0 comments)
ALA Midwinter in Philadelphia
December 11, 2007 - Come see VuFind in action in our home town of Philadelphia at the ALA Midwinter Conference in January. We will be sharing booth #318 with PALINET during the Exhibition. We will also be hosting a session on Saturday, January 12th at 10:30am. We hope you will come and see us! (0 comments)
2 presentations, 2 conferences, 2 days
October 24, 2007 - Chris and Andrew of the VuFind development team will be presenting at 2 conferences in October. The first presentation will be at the Palinet 2007 Conference in Baltimore on October 29. The second presentation will be at the ExLibris User Group Meeting on October 30 at Rider University in Lawrenceville, NJ just outside of Trenton. We hope to see you there! (0 comments)
VuFind Profiled in Smart Libraries Newsletter
September 06, 2007 - Marshall Breeding reports on VuFind in the September 2007 issue of ALA TechSource's Smart Libraries Newsletter. It's great to see Open Source initiatives - especially VuFind - profiled on the front page! (0 comments)
Version 0.6 is out the door
August 16, 2007 - The latest version of VuFind has been released - version 0.6. I hope you will enjoy this one, there have been some nice new enhancements and plenty of bug fixes. (0 comments)
Roy Tennant Reviews
July 20, 2007 - Roy Tennant, now with OCLC, has blogged a fantastic review of VuFind. http://www.libraryjournal.com/blog/1090000309/post/1050012105.html (0 comments)
VuFind is released as Open Source!
July 20, 2007 - Villanova University announces VuFind, a next generation library catalog, is now freely available as Open Source software. (1 comments)