EBSCO – Three EBSCO Initiatives: Linked Data, Combined Statistics and Open Source

EBSCO – Three EBSCO Initiatives: Linked Data, Combined Statistics and Open Source

Roman Piontek

Three EBSCO projects exemplify the company’s strategic direction:\n\n1. Zepheira, a linked-data project that is indeed rather different to many of EBSCO’s software products that are usually comprised of an index component and a user interface. Zepheira is a data service—we receive catalogue or repository data, whereupon we normalise, connect, enrich, transform the data into BIBFRAME and facilitate their discoverability on a multitude of platforms.\n\n2. Panorama, a platform that can regularly harvest and visualise statistical or analytical data from third-party systems and thus compare and consolidate otherwise disparate data such as data from a library system, an authentication system, a campus system etc.\n\n3. FOLIO, a modular open-source platform for library services from acquisitions and cataloguing to circulation and electronic-resource management. Every module on the platform is born with maximum data connectivity in mind.\n\nWe would like to cast a brief spotlight on all three of these initiatives.

2022