Sebastian Hammer to Present at BIBFRAME Workshop in Europe 2024

Index Data co-founder Sebastian Hammer will attend the BIBFRAME Workshop in Europe 2024 held in Helsinki from September 17th to 18th. He will present at a session titled “Practical Use Cases for Shared Bibliographic Infrastructure.” The talk will delve into the ever-present role of bibliographic data sharing in library operations, including collections management, cataloging, discovery, […]

Index Data Celebrates Successful FOLIO and LDP Installation at Stanford University Library

BOSTON – Index Data is excited to congratulate Stanford University on the successful deployment of FOLIO, the revolutionary open source library services platform. Stanford University went live on FOLIO in mid-August 2023 as it combined two integrated library systems from five campus libraries into a university-wide library services platform.  In the three years since Index […]

Index Data Applauds Linköping University Library’s Successful FOLIO Implementation

COPENHAGEN – Index Data is delighted that Linköping University Library in Sweden has gone live with FOLIO. Linköping University (LiU) has been part of the FOLIO Community for a number of years and has worked on its migration for months, culminating in a go-live on July 24, 2023. Staff at Linköping University Library began the […]

Sebastian to Present Share-VDE Collaboration Update at BIBFRAME Workshop in Europe

At the BIBFRAME Workshop in Europe, Index Data’s Sebastian Hammer will be giving an update on our collaboration with @CULT and Casalini Libri to build integrations between the Share-VDE platform and the FOLIO Library Services Platform. The integration between these systems will offer FOLIO libraries a model for collaborative bibliographic description based on managing BIBFRAME-based entities, not textual descriptions buried in a local MARC […]

University of Colorado Boulder Completes Migration to FOLIO Hosted by Index Data

Index Data, a leading provider of innovative library software solutions, is pleased to announce that the University of Colorado at Boulder (CU Boulder) is live on FOLIO, hosted by Index Data.  CU Boulder’s partnership with Index Data began with the task of handling the data migration to a self-hosted FOLIO but eventually expanded to include […]

Index Data is Showcasing Open Source Library Solutions at the American Library Association Annual Conference and Exhibition

Index Data, a leading provider of innovative library software solutions, is thrilled to announce its participation at the American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference and Exhibition. The event will take place from June 23-26, 2023, in Chicago, Illinois. Index Data staff are eager to meet to discuss cutting-edge solutions, including FOLIO, the open source library […]

New Module Advances Configuration Management in FOLIO

Saving an app’s settings is easy to take for granted but can sometimes be complex. Index Data announces the addition of “mod-settings” to the FOLIO Library Services Platform. Mod-settings is a new module that provides a secure way to store and access configuration information. It replaces the existing mod-configuration module, which had a single set […]

@Cult and Index Data Agree to Advance Each Other’s Strengths

Tiziana Possemato@Cult Rome (Italy) www.atcult.it Lynn BaileyIndex Data Copenhagen (Denmark)Boston MA (USA) www.indexdata.com

Community, not Code, is the True Heart of Open Source

thoughts from Sebastian Hammer, co-founder and president of Index Data. Of all the many kinds of “Open” that populate the library landscape, Open Source is perhaps the one that is subject to the most conflicting stories about precisely what it means and why (and whether) it is important. There are, of course, legitimate differences of […]

Index Data Supports Code4Lib 2022

As it has done for many years, Index Data is proud to sponsor this year’s Code4Lib conference.  We recognize that the information shared at the meeting has value long past the meeting itself, so we are pleased to fund the Post-Conference Video Production.  This support will ensure the videos are edited and closed captioning added to increase their […]