Tuesday, October 17, 2006

P2P OPACs

Here's an idea, not even half-baked, how about peer-to-peer (P2P) networks of OPACs? Only available items would display. I'd get to pick the institutions I'd have display and whether to display non-circulating items. Something like Limewire. Something visible to TrustyFiles. Should have sent this off to Hackfest.

at 1:39 PM

3 comments:

Sigaard said...

Hi David

Run that by me again? What kind of function is it you miss and how is that the P2P-network solve the problem?

2:17 PM
John M said...

I'm still thinking this through but I think I like the idea.

So I could go on-line, look up a book, and see that it is not available in my city, but is available in the neighbouring city. I could process the interlibrary loan on-line. Or in a more flexible world, I could drive there and get it. Neat.

10:29 AM
Richard Wallis said...

Hi David

You stimulated some of my own thoughts around the applicability of P2P in the Library domain. Far too many for a comment so I have dropped them in a posting over on Panlibus.

Richard.

8:14 AM

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