Projects
The Foundation serves as a home, and provides infrastructure and services to open source communities in the library space.
FOLIO
FOLIO is a collaboration of libraries, developers and vendors building an open source library services platform. It supports traditional resource management functionality and can be extended into other institutional areas.
Global Open Knowledge Base
The Global Open Knowledge Base (GOKB) is a community-managed, open data platform that provides information about electronic resources. Participants work on creating high-quality data for core knowledge base components, freely accessible to everyone via our web app and open APIs.
VuFind
VuFind is a flexible open source discovery layer designed to provide a consistent and configurable user interface on top of search and library account management functionality. It supports a wide variety of metadata formats, library systems and third-party APIs, and it is designed to be easily extended and customized.
|The Open Resource Sharing Coalition (OpenRS)
The Open Resource Sharing Coalition (OpenRS), a resource sharing initiative created in partnership with library consortia, open-source developers, and vendors. The Coalition is a heterogeneous resource sharing system that is ILS and Discovery agnostic that accommodates the full spectrum of mediated and unmediated resource sharing.
Project ReShare
Project ReShare sets the standard for how libraries collaborate, partner, share resources, and connect patrons to the information they require by developing user-centered, standards-based, community-driven, and community-owned library technologies and tools.
BitCurator Consortium
The BitCurator Consortium was created to address the growing need for tools, training, and collaboration in digital curation with support from the Educopia Institute.
Library Data Platform
Library Data Platform (LDP) is the first scalable analytics platform designed specifically for libraries that is 100% community-owned, open source, and free of vendor lock-in. Built around the Metadb core engine, LDP provides cross-domain SQL analytics, historical data storage, and automatic schema processing to help libraries gain strategic insights from their data across multiple systems.
Open Rules for Cataloging
The Open Rules for Cataloging (ORC) project was initiated in 2019 to create open access cataloging rules for the cataloging community. It is proposed to be a freely available alternative for those who desire a less abstract cataloging code.