VuFind Discovery Layer

Names: Joe Lucia, Demian Katz, David Uspal, David Lacy
Affiliation: Villanova University
URL: http://vufind.org

VuFind is a flexible discovery interface for exploration and presentation of DPLA content. Powered by the popular Apache Solr software, VuFind combines a reliable and highly configurable search engine with an easy-to-customize presentation layer, a metadata-agnostic design, and a growing pool of import tools capable of handling records from a wide range of sources. With the help of its companion, the VuDL content management package (http://vudl.org/), it is also possible to manage original metadata and file storage for an archive of digital objects.

VuFind is currently being used by the national libraries of Australia (http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/) and Ireland (http://catalogue.nli.ie/), and has also been implemented in customized form in Discover Yale Digital Commons (http://discover.odai.yale.edu/ydc/), the HathiTrust Catalog (http://www.hathitrust.org/), and the bibnet.org (http://bibnet.org/?q=node/8) citation database.