Index Data will be exhibiting at ALA Midwinter in Dallas. Please be sure to drop by and visit us at Booth #1659. We love to visit with old friends and new, and ALA is a wonderful place to touch base.

If you'd like to chat, please give us a call to set up something in advance, since our schedule tends to get a little crowded during the conference.

Index Data has submitted a proposal to the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) beta sprint.

We believe that the DPLA is an important initiative, and we wanted to share our particular perspective on the world of structured data, information retrieval, standards, and open source software. We look forward to following the development of this work in the future.

From the press release:

"Leveraging the latest advances in discovery technology from Index Data, the LYRASIS DLS will retrieve, de-dupe and rank results from a variety resources, offering member libraries one-stop access to online content from journals and database providers in a, responsive and facet-enabled interface.

June 14, 2011

Index Data announces a new Open Source software tool: MKDru, a discovery/metasearch plugin for the popular Drupal Open Source CMS platform. The purpose of the plugin is to allow libraries and others to embed discovery/metasearch functionally directly into their websites.

Available in separate versions for Drupal 6 and Drupal 7, the plugin makes it easy to implement sophisticated search interfaces with ranked, merged, and faceted results.