How We Build SLiMS that Rocks

1. SLiMS
How we build
that rocks
BY HENDRO WICAKSONO (SLiMS Lead Developer)

2. Hendro Wicaksono
twitter.com/hendrowicaksono
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hendrowicaksono@yahoo.com
SLiMS lead developer

3. What is
SLiMS
Library management system with
digital library support

4. Why we build
SLiMS
from scratch

5. We have 5
REASONS

6. 1
Old app only for
RENT

7. 2
Hard to
MODIFY

8. 3
Hard to
DISTRIBUTE

9. 4
Transfer of
KNOWLEDGE

10. 5
Let's have
FUN

11. SLiMS
Senayan Library Management System

12. Open Source
GNU/GPL

13. Open Source. GNU GPL.

14. Cross platform
WEB

15. Aseli Indonesia

16. collaborative
SOFTWARE

18. All developer is
LIBRARIAN

19. beberapa
PENCAPAIAN
bersama

20. Juara 1
INAICTA 09
Open Source

21. Official
IGOS
Library application

22. Dukungan
KOMUNITAS
Jogja, solo, malang, jakarta, medan,
surabaya, bandung, medan, semarang,
ternate, thailand, ...

23. Development start:
february 2007
First public release:
November 2007
(senayan3­rc4)

24. Development phases ...

25. Everyone is
MOTIVATED
to contribute

26. Documentation is
IMPORTANT
http://github.com/slims/s3­doc­id

27. Transparent
DEVELOPMENT
http://github.com/slims
http://slims.web.id

28. Best practice
DATABASE
design

29. Compliant with
STANDARDS
AACR2, MARC

30. Provide
WEB
services

31. Multi
LANGUAGE
English, Bahasa Indonesia, German,
Espanol, Arabic, Thai, Bengali ...

32. Easy to build
UNION
catalog

33. Copy
CATALOGING
Z39.50 & P2P (inter­slims)

34. available MODULES

35. Modules (1)
BIBLIOGRAPHY
AACR2, flexible field, multimedia,
Union Catalog, copy cataloging, etc

36. Modules (2)
MEMBERSHIP
flexible field, member login, presensi,
member card generator, etc

37. Modules (3)
CIRCULATION
flexible loan rules, fines & calendar
management, etc

38. Another
MODULES
OPAC, masterfile, stocktaking, serial
management, system, reporting.

39. SLiMS
USERS
Officially more than 200, unofficially
much much more than that. Any kind
of institutions.

40. Users in many
COUNTRIES
Indonesia, Malaysia, India, Thailand,
Bangladesh, German, Spanyol, Spain,
African Countries, Latin America,
Srilanka, Cuba, etc

41. SLiMS 3 – stable 15
MATOA
release

42. Updated
SECURITY
Two database connection support,
integrated IP based access limitation,
patch for barcode exploitation, code
audit code (OWASP)

43. New
LANGUAGES
Bengali and Thai language is now part
of official release.

44. Separation of
SLiMS & UCS
They are separated for better code
management.

45. New
FEATURES
New sysconfig.local.inc.php &
sysconfig.local.fa.inc.php, email for sending
notification, two new indexing system
(index & sphinx), searching tools for
orphaned author/subject, download loan
history & current loan in member login,
improved XML, captcha support, etc

46. So many
BUG FIXING
See changes.txt for details.

47. What can you do?

48. Manage
YOUR LIBRARIES
with style

49. Build your own
KINGDOM

50. Share
RESOURCES
to the world

51. Add
SOCIAL MEDIA
to your SLiMS

53. DISCUSSION