1. VuFind: Community & Code

2. vufind.org Overview Intro to VuFind Features & Technologies Community, Support, Sustainability …

3. vufind.org What it is … A flexible search engine & discovery interface for all your content Open Source: Released under GPL2 license by Villanova University in 2007 Highly Configurable Highly Customisable Highly Extensible

4. vufind.org What it is not … A replacement for your Integrated Library System (e.g. Koha) A replacement for your Institutional/Digital Repository (e.g. DSpace) An aggregated index of e-Resources (e.g. Summon) … but it plays well with all of the above!

5. vufind.org Simple, intuitive interface (a.k.a. “Google-y”) Relevance Ranking & Faceted Navigation User favourites, comments, tags, etc. “More Like This”, “Did you mean?”, Auto-suggest Book Covers, Reviews, Author Bios etc. Dedicated Mobile Interface, or Responsive Design Citation Support i18n: 20+ interface translations Bookmarkable URLs

6. vufind.org Search Suggestions from local Authority Records Traditional Alphabetic Browse with “See” and “See Also” links Wikipedia lookup via Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) Search Suggestions from WorldCat Identities & Terminology Services Features: Authority Control Support

7. vufind.org Simple isPartOf relationships, e.g. tracks on a CD Complex hierarchical collections, e.g. Archival Collections (EAD) Features: Collections & Hierarchical Relationships

8. vufind.org Visualisations: Interactive Timeline Graphs, Maps & Spatial Search Full-text indexing Recommendation Modules & Plugins: Google Books, Hathi Trust, Open Library, Europeana, Flickr, etc. Excellent SEO - sitemaps.org & schema.org and more …

9. vufind.org Vufind Stack

10. vufind.org Populating the Solr Index Built-in tools: OAI-PMH Harvester PHP/XSLT command-line tools for XML Complementary (FOSS) tools: SolrMarc: Marc Records RecordManager: Marc, EAD, LIDO, etc. Apache TIKA: Webpages, Full-text pdfs, etc

11. vufind.org Record Drivers Aware of different record types in the same index Can override functionality and display to accommodate schema & data

12. vufind.org ILS Drivers Real-time information from Library System, e.g. Item Status, Holds, etc Baseline support for 15+ systems (Read only) Extended support for 7 systems (CRUD)

13. vufind.org Community, Support, & Sustainability…

14. vufind.org Villanova University – Project & Development Lead Infrastructure: vufind.org & WIKI JIRA Issue Tracker Continuous Integration Server Github & Sourceforge Administration Developer calls Development: Large % of core development & bug fixing Code review & merging of contributor patches/pull-requests Support: Mailing Lists Documentation VuFind Summits in Philadelphia Remarkable Institutional & Individual Commitment & Leadership

15. vufind.org Adopters & Developers Adopted in 26 countries on 5 continents Diverse community Broad spectrum of requirements & expertise

16. vufind.org Release Regularity & VF2 Redesign

17. vufind.org Damned Lies & Statistics 1: Developer Call Attendees 60 different people over 3 years 7 on average per call

18. vufind.org Damned Lies & Statistics 2: Usage of Mailing Lists 214 emails/month (~300/month in 2013) Average of 4 posts per thread

19. vufind.org Damned Lies & Statistics 3: JIRA Issue Resolution Over 950 JIRA tickets opened by approximately 100 different people 39% Bug Reports ; 61% feature requests/enhancements or tasks

20. vufind.org Commercial Support

21. vufind.org In Conclusion … VuFind Rocks! Villanova Rock! The VuFind Community Rocks! … join today

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