''finc'' (find in catalog) is an open consortium comprising various
university libraries
A library is a collection of materials, books or media that are accessible for use and not just for display purposes. A library provides physical (hard copies) or digital access (soft copies) materials, and may be a physical location or a vir ...
that jointly operate and develop bibliographic search engines (cf.
discovery systems) for their users.
The consortium focuses on
free and open source software
Free and open-source software (FOSS) is a term used to refer to groups of software consisting of both free software and open-source software where anyone is freely licensed to use, copy, study, and change the software in any way, and the source ...
as well as being independent of lesser transparent solution, such as commercial bibliographic indexes. Thus, apart from extending the open source software
VuFind
VuFind is an open-source library search engine that allows users to search and browse beyond the resources of a traditional Online public access catalog (OPAC). Developed by Villanova University, version 1.0 was released in July 2010 after two yea ...
major efforts embrace negotiating with publishers to acquire metadata records (e.g. as
MARC Marc or MARC may refer to:
People
* Marc (given name), people with the first name
* Marc (surname), people with the family name
Acronyms
* MARC standards, a data format used for library cataloging,
* MARC Train, a regional commuter rail system of ...
or
JATS
The Jat people ((), ()) are a traditionally agricultural community in Northern India and Pakistan. Originally pastoralists in the lower Indus river-valley of Sindh, Jats migrated north into the Punjab region in late medieval times, and subse ...
or any proprietary format) to already licensed content, as well as processing such records to adhere to the
Solr
Solr (pronounced "solar") is an open-source enterprise-search platform, written in Java. Its major features include full-text search, hit highlighting, faceted search, real-time indexing, dynamic clustering, database integration, NoSQL features an ...
index schema in place.
Initiated 2011 with public funds for Saxony, Germany, as a three-year project,
its scope used to be restricted to Saxon university libraries. The consortium since finances their infrastructure and further development via own shared means of over a dozen institutions across Germany.
Coordination and hosting is undertaken in and by
University Library of Leipzig.
References
Further reading
* Hofmann, Anke, and Barbara Wiermann. "The VuFind Based MT-Katalog: A Customized Music Library Service at the University of Music and Drama Leipzig." Data Science, Learning by Latent Structures, and Knowledge Discovery. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2015. 547–556.
* Hofmann, Anke, and Barbara Wiermann. "Customizing music discovery services: experiences at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater, Leipzig." Music Reference Services Quarterly 17.2 (2014): 61–75.
External links
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Library-related organizations
Scholarly search services
Library 2.0
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