[Irtalk] David Walker receives 2015 LITA/Library Hi Tech Award | News and Press Center

[Hilton Gibson]

*Walker is being recognized for his dedication and commitment in developing
the open source library portal application Xerxes over the past decade*.
Originally designed as an improved interface to the Ex Libris Metalib
federated search system in 2004, Xerxes now supports a variety of back-end
search engines, including commercial library discovery systems, such as
Primo, EDS, Summon, non-cost web service (EBSCO Integration Toolkit,
Worldcat API) and other search engines (Solr, Google Appliance).  Through
this effort, Walker has worked with a variety of vendors to develop and
test their application programming interfaces and has been recognized by
OCLC and Ex Libris for innovative uses of their services. * In 2007 Walker
released the system under an open source license, and today, Xerxes
platform is implemented by over 40 institutions around the globe, with some
also contributing code back to the project.*

http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2015/03/david-walker-receives-2015-litalibrary-hi-tech-award

*​Also see: https://github.com/dswalker/xerxes
<https://github.com/dswalker/xerxes>​*
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