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.
|GOKb
The Global Open Knowledgebase (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.
|Project Reshare
The ReShare Community is a group of libraries, consortia, information organizations, and developers, with both commercial and non-commercial interests, who are building a user-centered, app-based, community-owned resource sharing platform for libraries to set the standard for how we connect library patrons to resources and information.
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 Advanced Research Consortium (ARC)
As a hub of humanities research nodes, ARC contains resources spanning the bulk of existing Western written documents, from medieval times to the early 20th century. Each ARC node contains data about existing documents, scanned page images (with text transcriptions), scholarly research related to the node’s documents, and teaching and research tools, including open-source software, that helps humanities researchers to work with digital text and images. ARC coordinates the various resources of the nodes, combining them into a single catalog of metadata, images, and texts, and the ARC nodes provide peer-review for research projects derived from the resources.