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Blacklight is an open source OPAC (online public access catalog) being developed at the U.Va. Library. It is a faceted discovery tool. The name comes from Solr + UVA = Blacklight.
Special features of Blacklight:
- relevancy ranking
- users can easily filter content and build queries that are highly focused and resusable
- Blacklight searches both catalog records AND digital repository objects, making the latter more discoverable
- persistent URLs, so users can email successful searches to colleagues
- ability to use the web browser’s Back button to return to a previous screen
- cover images, including cd covers
Blacklight is based on a tool called Collex that was developed for the NINES project based at UVa.
For technical information about Blacklight, click here.
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