The projects below provide bibliographic and/or usage/circulation data, and might be worth investigating for future integration with VuFind. As of this writing, VuFind is not bundled with tools to consume any of this data.

This service, courtesy of the North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Center, provides shareable bibliographic data in linked-data format.

“LibraryCloud is an open, multi-library data service that aggregates and delivers library metadata. We hope it will serve as a platform for the development of Web applications that help all library users (including scholars and re-searchers) find and understand materials.”

“(LibraryCloud) It's a metadata server. It gathers up metadata - information about information - from libraries, museums, and other participating institutions, and makes that metadata available to any application that wants to use it.”

… more info here.

“Amazon.ca has a “customers who bought this item also bought” feature that recommends things to you that you might be interested in. LibraryThing has it too: the recommendations for What's Bred in the Bone by Robertson Davies include books by Margaret Laurence, Carol Shields, Michael Ondaatje, Peter Ackroyd, John Fowles, and David Lodge, as well as other Davies works.

Library catalogues don't have any such feature, but they should. And libraries are sitting on the circulation and usage data that makes it possible. (BiblioCommons does have a Similar Titles feature, but it's a closed commercial product aimed at public libraries, and anyway the titles are added by hand.)

SPLURGE will collect usage data from OCUL members and build a recommendation engine that can be integrated into any member's catalogue. The code will be made available under the GNU Public License and the data will be made available under an open data license.”

Our thanks to William Denton (Toronto, Canada) for let us know about this project, and the shared info about it, in vufind-tech Mailing List.

… more info here.