FOLIO: A New Open Source Initiative

[...]rather than making a business acquisition to become more involved with the resource management technologies used by libraries as its rival ProQuest, EBSCO has taken the novel approach of launching and supporting an ambitious project to create a new alternative in the market as an open source so...

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Published inLibrary technology reports Vol. 53; no. 6; pp. 27 - 31
Main Author Breeding, Marshall
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Chicago American Library Association 01.08.2017
Subjects
Academic libraries
Applications programs
Architecture
Community Relations
Computer Software
Data buses
Discovery tools
Environment
Indexing
Information Networks
Information services
Information services industry
Launching
Libraries
Library Networks
Library Services
Library technology
Management Systems
Offices
Officials and employees
Open source software
Relational data bases
Repositories
Resource management
Software industry
Software services
Stakeholders
Subject indexing
Technical information
User services
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United States
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Summary:[...]rather than making a business acquisition to become more involved with the resource management technologies used by libraries as its rival ProQuest, EBSCO has taken the novel approach of launching and supporting an ambitious project to create a new alternative in the market as an open source software product. Founded in 1994, the company, with offices in the United States and Copenhagen, Denmark, has extensive experience creating open source software components for library applications. Some of the components of the system layer include * relational databases * document store * indexing technology * management and configuration for each tenant * Okapi multitenant gateway, a messaging bus for the exchange of data among apps and the lowerlevel framework. * Application Layer, the array of apps that will be deployed within each instance of FOLIO. * Stripes, a user interface toolkit based on the React JavaScript framework. Technical documentation, existing software code, and other related resources have been made available in the project's repositories, and the efforts of developers are well coordinated and openly accessible. * Outreach and publicity activities for FOLIO have been massive, primarily by EBSCO personnel, but also with support from the Open Library Environment. * Despite the faltering of previous projects, at least some segment of academic libraries embraces the values behind open source software. * FOLIO offers a fresh vision of technology and functionality.
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ISSN:0024-2586
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