Codex Search Integrations

Owned by Charlotte Whitt
Last updated: Mar 27, 2020
3 min read

The Codex Search app is more or less in a state of proof of concept of doing federated search across app in FOLIO. The idea is that Codex Search will provide access to multiple local inventories, and multiple knowledge bases. 

Since the more exploratory work was done back in 2017, the FOLIO project has not prioritized more work for the MVP.

Early 2020 a first initial integration of a third-party app call into FOLIO’s Codex Search developed by the Arkivum project.


Arkivum

At WolfCon II in January 2020 the Arkivum project presented how they as a 3rd party app integrated their database Perpetua into Codex Search by using the existing API which made them able to hook up with FOLIO and offer their special collection and archival database as a service within Codex Search. 

Matthew Addis from Arkivum also attended a FOLIO Forum in February 2020, and the recording is available on the Open Library Foundations channel on YouTube. See the recording here.



At the FOLIO Forum Matthew Addis from Arkivum discussed his company’s work in adding support for special collections and archives with Perpetua, including a live demonstration.

Perpetua is a software solution for safeguarding, preservation and providing access to a wide range of digital content types that are often part of the library remit. This includes scholarly outputs, research data, special collections, archives, and institutional records. Perpetua builds upon and integrates several community open source solutions including Archivematica for digital preservation and Access to Memory (AtoM) for archive information management and online access. Libraries can use Perpetua to store, preserve, manage and access their special collections and archives using archival standards (ISADG, etc.) and be able to describe both physical and digital content that they hold.

Arkivum has done an initial integration of Perpetua with FOLIO’s Codex Search so that special collections in Perpetua are discoverable alongside other library resources in a uniform way in FOLIO. FOLIO users can search for content through the codex and then be directed to Perpetua where they can view the full record for matching content. If items are in digital form (e.g. images, audio, video, documents, etc.) then users can view/play them directly in Perpetua. Matthew is interested in learning what FOLIO people think of what Arkivum has done so far, where it should go next, and how they can engage and participate in the FOLIO community.


Read more on the FOLIO wiki about Special Collections and Archives (SC&A)