[VuFind-Tech] Vufind Central Index

[Oliver G. <o.g...@tu...>]

Hi,

in the minutes of yesterday's developers call (shame on me - I always
forget this date...) I read this:

"Filipe brought up the growing area of open data -- for example,
Harvard's recent release of catalog data, and the harvestable pubmed
index. Demian will create a wiki page (Open Data Sources
<http://vufind.org/wiki/open_data_sources>) to track this and encourage
sharing of free data. There was also discussion of having a central
index of this data that could either be added to search results via
sharding and/or used as a replication source for local clones. This
would require significant infrastructure work, but it would be a useful
tool for the VuFind community -- perhaps a topic for deeper discussion
at the Summit in October."

This sounds like a very promising idea, I think! Maybe I could get
involved in discussions about that? I'll try to attend the next call. Or
is this topic deferred until October?

- Oliver

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