BOPAC2 (Bradford OPAC 2)

Try BOPAC2 a JAVA based way of querying multiple library catalogues.

The BOPAC2 project investigated dealing with the problems of large and complex retrieval sets, possible from multiple databases, obtained via the Z39.50 protocol.

A grant for the work was obtained from the British Library Research and Innovation Centre and work on a one year project started in September 1996. The project was then extended till January 1998 to allow for more user testing. Although that phase of the project is over the system is still running and feedback is most welcome.

The system is being maintained and updated, new targets are being added and we hope to make major changes in the near future.

BOPAC related items:

Currently available

• Try BOPAC2 :requires a JAVA enabled browser
• BOPAC FAQ
• What's new with BOPAC
• Try BOSS A recent project :requires a browser with XML support

• Material on Authority Control issues
  see also FH Ayres, 'Authority Control Simply Does Not Work' , Cataloguing & Classification Quarterly 32(2), 2001, pp 49-59
• Practical Clumping article in Ariadne
• Response to IFLA Guidelines to OPAC Display and IFLA Guidelines to OPAC Display itself.
• Invited paper synopses on IFLA Guidelines and BOPAC at Korg 00, Oslo, May 2000, the past and the future .
• Project Report online
• Beyond MARC Pre conference version of paper given at International Conference on the Principles and Future Development of AACR2, Toronto, Canada, October 23-25, 1997. published as 'Beyond MARC',in The Principles and Future of AACR, ed. J.Weihs, CLA LA ALA, ISBN 1856043037, 1998, pp.229-239.

• UKOLN's Z39.50 in Europe page
• LoC Z39.50 Maintenance Agency

The system has been demonstrated at

• Korg00, May '00, Høgskolen i Oslo (Oslo University College), Norway
• Library Association Information Technology Group (Central Scotland) and Cataloging and Indexing Group (Scotland), Z39.50 Seminar, March 98, Glasgow, Scotland
• International Conference on the Principles and Future Development of AACR2, October 97, Toronto, Canada
• UK Online Users Group, Meeting on Electronic Resources and Developments in the Arts and Humanities, July 97, Bradford, UK