{"id":1948,"date":"2007-01-04T14:52:11","date_gmt":"2007-01-04T19:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.librarysupportstaff.org\/?p=193"},"modified":"2007-01-04T14:52:11","modified_gmt":"2007-01-04T19:52:11","slug":"go-fish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/04\/go-fish.html","title":{"rendered":"Go FISH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As discussed on the <a href=\"http:\/\/schoolof.info\/infomancy\/?p=326\">Infomancy<\/a> blog, FISH was their response to the problems inherent in the current state of the OPAC (Online Public-Access Catalog).  And their response?  FISH (Free (as in kittens) Integrated Search Handler).<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s the difference?  Read their post, they explain it well.  But you can also <a href=\"http:\/\/fish4info.org\/union\/\">try it yourself<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As a note, I wonder when they made the decision that no current OPAC technology suited their needs?\u00a0  <a href=\"http:\/\/demo.gapines.org\/opac\/en-US\/skin\/default\/xml\/index.xml\">Evergreen<\/a> is quite progressive in its approach, and I would need to really dig into each of their methods to discern how they are different.  It isn&#8217;t a contest, however, and it is great to see the variety of access search tools in development.<\/p>\n<p>Interesting, however, that all the best tools seem to be coming from groups other than the major vendors&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>from <a href=\"http:\/\/catalogablog.blogspot.com\/2007\/01\/opac-replaced-by-fish.html\">Catalogablog<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As discussed on the Infomancy blog, FISH was their response to the problems inherent in the current state of the OPAC (Online Public-Access Catalog). And their response? FISH (Free (as in kittens) Integrated Search Handler). What&#8217;s the difference? Read their &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/04\/go-fish.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2940,2943,2951,2982,2965,2966],"tags":[3266,3267,3268],"class_list":["post-1948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ils","category-libraries","category-online-databases","category-open-source","category-search","category-software","tag-access-search-tools","tag-online-public-access-catalog","tag-opac-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSU5g-vq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}