Index Data will be at ALA Midwinter in the Pennsylvania Convention Center from Friday, January 24 to Monday, January 27. We would love the opportunity to talk with you on your schedule. Whether it’s our work on FOLIO, our efforts in Project Reshare to help launch a community-owned resource sharing platform, or our renowned discovery tools, we’re here to journey […]
June, 2019 – Boston, MA and Copenhagen, Denmark Project ReShare and Index Data are pleased to announce that Index Data will become the first Certified Service Provider for the ReShare consortial resource-sharing platform. A software company specializing in creating innovative products and tools for the library ecosystem, Index Data will offer hosting, implementation, and support […]
Daniel Engelke, chief technology officer and co-founder of Bibliotech Education Ltd, notified us about their release of an open source Z39.50 toolkit for Node.js that uses Index Data’s YAZ toolkit. The source code is available on GitHub. Daniel said, “Having the YAZ toolkit available, specifically the libyaz5-dev package made developing a zoom client in Node.js […]
As part of a series of articles featuring interviews with Boston’s most inspiring entrepreneurs and independent businesses, BostonVoyager magazine highlights Sebastian Hammer and Index Data.: http://bostonvoyager.com/interview/meet-sebastian-hammer-index-data-office-formally-faneuil-hall-marketplace-company-made-entirely-remote-workers-rarely-gather/ .
Peter Murray (Open Source Community Advocate) is leading an 8-week online training session for NISO on Working with Scholarly Information Resource RESTful APIs. As the lead instructor, Peter gives participants a grounding in HTTP REST principles and then guides attendees through guest lectures from representatives several prominent companies and projects, including CrossRef, Orcid, OCLC, and IIIF. […]
Cast your vote in the SXSW Panel Picker! Voting extended to 11:59pm PT this Sunday, August 27. Please consider a vote for the FOLIO entry “The Emergence of a New Model in Library Technology”.
In the two decades since electronic journals started replacing print journals as the primary access to article content, the quandary of how to ensure proper access to electronic articles that are licensed and paid for by the library has been with us.Note 1 Termed the “off campus problem”, libraries have employed numerous techniques and technologies to enable access to authorized users when they were not at their institutions.
Coinciding with the public release of the FOLIO code repositories, Index Data staff offered a primer to developers on the context around how the FOLIO platform provides integration points for module development through the Okapi layer and what that means for developing modules in FOLIO.
Today, it was 20 years ago that Adam Dickmeiss and I founded Index Data together in Copenhagen. There was a bottle of champagne, and our parents shared the moment with us along with our wives, because, honestly, we were little more than big kids at the time. We were a little scared, but we were […]