Biblio roadmap

Technical Roadmap

1. Create a searchable database for public using Django (In progress)
2. Integrate with SILPA project and provide an API.
3. It should be possible to export data in various formats.
4. Identify the formats to be supported. Possible formats: MARC21, UNIMARC, Dubline Core
5. MARC21 is very likely to be supported as it is being used by various free softwares (eg:- Koha)
6. Identify the MARC21 fields to be used for bibliographic data.
7. Setup a searchable index similar to US Library of Congress voyager server ( http://z3950.loc.gov ) using the software available at : http://indexdata.com
8. Provide public API to access bibliographic data. API should be available in JSONRPC, in addition to this a RESTful API also will be available in future.
9. Setup a dedicated physical server.
10. All the technologies and infrastructure to be made available to other Indian languages.