Karlsruher Virtueller Katalog

Karlsruher Virtueller Katalog (KVK) is a book search engine administered by the library of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. It was developed by KIT-Library in 1996 and continuously expanded and adapted since. It searches a large number of catalogs of research libraries and consortia in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, as well as important consortia and national library catalogs in other countries. Beyond that it also searches open access and digital media search engines and catalogs. It is said to encompass more than 600 million books and serial publications.

Technology

In order to be able to search many catalogs at the same time, the KVK team has created a CGI program, which initially reformulates the terms entered in the KVK search form for each of the target catalogs according to their requirements. The program then For each WWW search interface of the target catalogs, a structure description file is provided which allows the CGI program to be entered. The structure description file describes the structure of the respective search form and the structure of the resulting hit lists. Important information about the search form is the names of the WWW server, the search fields, and the CGI program of the target catalog that performs the search. The CGI program of the KVK then transfers the search queries in the KVK in the correct syntax to the correct fields of the target catalog. Important elements of the hit list are the short titles of the hits and the URL links to the full title dis.

gollark: Got what?
gollark: My last attempt was contaminated with a newline.
gollark: 5d5b09f6dcb2d53a5fffc60c4ac0d55fabdf556069d6631545f42aa6e3500f2e is the REAL sha256 of sha256!
gollark: 74b4147957813b62cc8987f2b711ddb31f8cb46dcbf71502033da66053c8780a
gollark: ed978564d45a78f4a92dac1b8694450cd9a36615ed98fbd34ded2c758b30bc10e0d2391b8d6ae16ec32e749a73803939cd8af8344aa495e03fa7b59c3175c802 is the password.

References

  • Michael Mönnich: KVK. A Meta Catalog of Libraries. In: High Energy Physics Libraries Webzine, Band 2, 2000, ISSN 1424-2729 (online, leicht abgewandelt erschienen in: Liber Quarterly, Band 11, Heft 2, 2001, S. 121–127, oMehrwertdienste durch Virtuelle Kataloge. 5 Jahre Karlsruher Virtueller Katalog. In: b.i.t.online, Heft 3, 2001 (online)
  • Uwe Dierolf: KVK goes Salt Lake City. In: b.i.t.online, Heft 4, 2002 (online)


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