Library Discovery System in Bengali Script: An Experiment with VuFind

Abstract

Owing to the improvement of web scale resource discovery systems on one hand and the Unicode-compliant Indic-scripts based retrieval systems on the other hand provided libraries unique opportunity in integrating these two parallel development processes. The services are called Web-scale Resource Discovery and generally considered as next generation library interface. VuFind is a highly customizable open source Web-scale Resource Discovery (WSRD) product that allows information repositories and integrates multiple services into a unified interface. It has powerful Apache Solr as search platform in order to showcase any digital content and also supports 25 languages in global implementation. Language issues have a vital role to play in library discovery system. This paper demonstrates the processes and procedures related to developing Bengali script based interfaces of VuFind. The product has been developed on the basis of rules and regulations of the VuFind developer community and now included in VuFind from release of the version 3.1 dated 26.09.2016.

Keywords: VuFind, Bengali script based OPAC, web-scale resource discovery, Unicode-compliant Indic-scripts

Cite this Article

Debabrata Barman, Parthasarathi Mukhopadhyay. Library Discovery System in Bengali Script: An Experiment with VuFind. Journal of Advancements in Library Sciences. 2018, 5(2): 20–26p