2010.02.28

March 1, 2010 - West Hartford, CT -- The Capital District Library Council (CDLC), a regional multi-type library organization with 68 libraries and library system members, headquartered in Albany, New York, has contracted with Index Data to provide them with a virtual union catalog.

CDLC will be replacing the union catalog component of the URSA platform with components of Index Data's MasterKey™ information discovery platform to provide its members with a cost-effective, state-of-the-art discovery tool.

2010.01.04

As usual, Index Data will participate in the ALA Midwinter conference. We love the opportunity to put faces to names and connect with all the people who use our technologies in various capacities. If you are thinking about a project that involves information retrieval, systems integration, etc., come see us and let's chat. We will be at booth #2244. Because the booth is often busy, it's a good idea to set up an appointment in advance.

2009.12.09

December 9, 2009

Borrow Direct - a rapid book request and delivery service for faculty, staff and students of Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, University of Pennsylvania, Princeton and Yale is moving to a next-generation software platform to be provided by Relais International and Index Data. Borrow Direct allows patrons to search across the member library catalogs simultaneously and request circulating items directly from any partner library.

2009.11.25

November 25, 2009 - West Hartford, CT -- The Cincinnati Museum Center, in partnership with the Western Reserve Historical Society, has contracted with Index Data to build the metasearch component of a pilot project to bring primary historical resources to a wider audience.

The pilot project will test the feasibility of offering a clean and simple interface, to multiple audiences, for searching and retrieving digitized resources in the area of US history.

2009.11.17

Sebastian Hammer presented a keynote address at this year’s Code4Lib conference in which he discusses the challenges facing libraries and librarianship from the Internet itself and from ‘competing’ services. A video of the whole talk can be seen here, courtesy of the hosts, Brown University.

2009.11.02

POMONA, CA - November 2, 2009 -- Auto-Graphics, Inc.  (Pink Sheets: AUGR), a technology innovator providing library automation solutions for over 36 years, and Index Data LLC, a software development company specializing in information retrieval, today announced a strategic partnership to provide state-of-the-art, standards-based integrated search and discovery software to the library

2009.10.15

We have been continuing to enhance Pazpar2 at a rapid pace. This new release is available as source and packaged for Ubuntu and Debian Changes since last release:

Command search takes two optional parameters, startecs and maxrecs, that specifies the start offset (0, 1, ...) and maximum number of records to fetch for each target.

XSLTs + MARC maps are cached within a session so we don't re-parse them over and over again.

2009.09.08

Recently published Library Mashups: Exploring New Ways to Deliver Library Data contains much of relevance to our community, but we were particularly pleased to read Chapter 20: Federated Database Search Mashup, which recounts the experiences of the Ohio Public Library Information Network.

2009.08.21

A new release of Pazpar2 is available. It's been awhile, and we have some important new functionality to share.

  • Pazpar2 can now access SRU and SRW targets in addition to Z39.50 ones. This is all thanks to the YAZ ZOOM implementation, which has also brought about significant simplifications to the code.

  • It is now possible to use Pazpar2 with record merging disabled entirely for situations where merging is not appropriate.

  • Original records from each target are stored in the result set and can be accessed from the client code if necessary.

2009.08.19

August 19, 2009 - West Hartford, CT

The Ohio Library and Information Network (OhioLINK) has contracted with Index Data to implement the first phase of a substantial re-engineering of their discovery services platform.