Boston, MA – Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU) has selected Index Data to provide comprehensive hosting and support services for its FOLIO library services platform, VuFind discovery interface, and Library Data Platform (LDP/Metadb). The university will transition to Index Data’s services beginning July 1, 2026. MTSU, one of Tennessee’s leading public universities, currently uses FOLIO […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, 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 […]
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 […]
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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 […]