Posted by richardhayward on March 28, 2011 at 2:19am
I'm interested to hear if there are any libraries with experience in creating WARC indexes from their Drupal websites. From what I read in the Exlibris Primo documentation WARC indexes are required so that Primo can harvest the website data and include in its search capability. Have you done this for your library website / library catalogue search?
The WARC indexes can be created by Heretrix (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritrix). Please let me know if this process has worked for you or not.
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British Library might be doing it
Hiya, at least The British Library is using Primo to search through their catalog and website. Type something into their searchbox in the top-right corner and it will give you Primo.
If this is still relevant, maybe you can contact them via email or Twitter, and ask them how they are doing it.
Cheers
Two more
Two other, similar cases are ETH-Bibliothek in Switcherland and
Die Sächsische Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden (SLUB). Both of which are awesomely beautiful Primos, by the way :)
At Umeå University Library in Sweden
we are just starting up with implementing Primo. We have the website in Drupal, and just stumbled upon this, that we need to create WARC-index from the web pages we want to harvest into Primo.
How have you succeed in this? Did you try Heritrix?
Primo / Heritrix update from State Library of Victoria
Hi marikalu, we have installed Heritrix and we have successfully created a WARC index from our Drupal 6 site. Its not easy to understand the interface for Heritrix, or how to configure it. We are now waiting to complete updates to our Primo system before we work on ingesting the index for use within Primo.
http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/
Sounds good!
I've asked our IT-dept to install Heritrix - perhaps I could get back to you if I have further questions about the usage?