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The Vufind 2.0 conference officially started this morning at around 9am where participants discussed ways to bring Vufind to the next level in a Vufind version 2.0. The discussion focused on highlighting trends and goals for the future development of the software.

The group recognized that a collective effort from different libraries using Vufind will be crucial in improving the software. There was a significant use of words like collaboration, community, and knowledge commons.

The Villanova University has been able to merge Vufind with Summon, a Serials Solutions web-scaled discovery service to improve findability and discovery by offering users the ability to search articles (using Summon) and books (using Vufind) more efficiently and see the result on the same page.

The conference attendees expressed interest in Social Metadata where tags from different systems would match each other. Here, the example of Social OPAC driven by drupal was given and raised significant interests. Developers in Australia have been able to include a tagging feature in Vufind and when somtehing is tagged, it appears in harvesting interface called The Fascinator

There was a breakout section on Authority Data and Linked Data where the discussion we talked about the useful features of VIVO, an open-source semantic web application that allows to bring together in one site, publicly available information on researchers across institutions, and VIAF a project developed by OCLC aiming at linking authority records of libraries nationally, and then making that information available on the Web.