Die Open-Source-Software OpenBib an der USB Köln – Überblick und Entwicklungen in Richtung OPAC 2.0

Abstract

This article describes the Open Source portal software OpenBib, a project that was started by the author in 1997 and is being used in different projects at the University Library of Cologne (USB). After a basic overview of the origins, technology and the application at the USB the article describes some additional features such as RSS feeds, mashups, tagging, tag clouds, use analyses, drilldowns as well as catalogue enrichment. Many of these are characteristic for OPAC 2.0.