Knowledge Integration: Blog

Development of an Arches plugin for QGIS

The Arches open-source software was designed for the cultural heritage sector and as such is centred around spatial data, including essential geospatial tools to enter, visualise and query resource locations.

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The Arches team reflects on a productive 2023

With 2023 coming to an end, the Arches team here at Knowledge Integration are looking to reflect on another rewarding year.

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Press release: Introducing The Open Resource Sharing Coalition: OpenRS

Knowledge Integration will be leading the development of open source resource sharing for libraries, including features for intra-consortial borrowing, in a new project for the Open Library Foundation.

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Resource sharing in FOLIO

Back in September 2017 we spotted a gap in FOLIO app provision which we felt was hindering uptake in the UK: support for Interlibrary Loans (ILL).

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Introducing “Open Access”, a brand new FOLIO app

In our very first guest post, Owen Stephens introduces a new application, developed by Knowledge Integration, for managing a library's open access requests.

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Millions of records from UK collections to be unlocked by new Museum Data Service

Knowledge Integration are lead developers for this ambitious initiative, which is set to transform the way museums share their object records and knowledge.

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FedAccs delivers federated authentication to FOLIO

Sharing of learning facilities and resources with other institutions will become a whole lot simpler and cheaper for FOLIO libraries.

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Legal aspects of Controlled Digital Lending – a report commissioned by k-int

The concept of Controlled Digital Lending (CDL) is an area of great interest and debate amongst academic libraries worldwide at the moment. We commissioned a report to investigate legal aspects to help inform the community.

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From landscape to artifact: Arches meets CIIM

Our first integration of the Arches open source historical environment platform with CIIM, our in-house middleware solution, takes the Isle of Man's online cultural offering to the next level.

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Development of Controlled Digital Lending for Folio

We are delighted to be collaborating with EBSCO Information Services to develop functionality to support Controlled Digital Lending (CDL) in the FOLIO Library Services Platform.

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K-Int’s Ian Ibbotson joins the new FOLIO Community Council

We’re pleased to announce that Ian Ibbotson has been elected to FOLIO’s newly formed Community Council.

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Towards a National Collection – Making it FAIR

Towards a National Collection (TaNC) is taking the first steps towards creating a unified virtual ‘national collection’ from museums, archives, libraries and galleries.

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Getting involved in Project ReShare

December's Project ReShare community meeting has been opened up to members of the public.

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Project ReShare hits beta milestone

We're excited to announce the beta release of the ReShare Interlibrary Loan (ILL) system.

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Revamped British Museum’s online collection goes live

Lockdown was made a little brighter by the early release of the new improved British Museum's online collection.

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Project ReShare at ALA Midwinter, with demo

The Project ReShare steering group presented a project update and end to end demo of the resource sharing system to a packed out Town Hall meeting at ALA Midwinter in Philadelphia.

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K-Int is 20!

We're extremely proud to have celebrated 20 years of Knowledge Integration.

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1,000 milestone reached as students register to vote

It's always rewarding to see a customer's service gaining approval in the real world, especially when it has a positive impact on society.

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FOLIO: celebrating success

At the end of August, Chalmers University of Technology went live as an early adopter of the FOLIO Library Services Platform.

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‘Business as usual’ at the Archives Hub

In the connected worlds of software development and service delivery, it is easy to forget that sometimes "business as usual" is actually an end in itself.

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This year’s summer do was “axe”cellent

On the hottest day of the year we all tootled off to throw a few axes and discover our inner vikings. Much fun was had and the experience delivered by the Battle Axe Sheffield team was top-notch.

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CIIM helps National Trust for Scotland deliver ‘Project Reveal’

Matchmaking: when collections met photography. 'Weighed down with laptops, ladders, cameras, tape measures and object labelling equipment, six inventory teams set off to catalogue and photograph all of the collections displayed and stored in 47 of our visited properties. Project Reveal will last 18 months and cover properties across Scotland, from Broughton House in Kirkcudbright to Hugh Miller’s Birthplace Cottage in Cromarty.'

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CIIM AI Framework launched

In collaboration with the Horniman Museum and Gardens and the Science Museum Group, we have developed an AI framework for our CIIM product. It works with numerous third party AI services, such as Google Vision, and also provides integration with the GATE (General Architecture in Text Engineering) toolkit from Sheffield University.

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Collections Middleware for the British Museum

Following an open invitation to tender to suppliers on the Digital Outcomes framework, part of the UK Government’s Digital Marketplace, we are delighted to have been selected by the British Museum to supply this important component in the redevelopment of the Museum’s online presence.

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Behind the scenes at the Fitzwilliam Museum

The Fitzwilliam Museum are now using their CIIM platform to synchronize their Adlib Collections Management and Portfolio DAMS information, to both simplify their digitization workflow and prevent the need for 'double data entry'

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Manx National Heritage launch 3D digital images of Manx Crosses

Manx National Heritage have enabled users of iMuseum to explore 3D digital images of the historically important Manx Crosses, using Sketchfab integration via their CIIM platform.

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Royal Armouries Image Library launched

The new Royal Armouries Image Library is powered by data from their CIIM platform via a private custom endpoint and authenticated REST API.

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Isle of Man TT archive powered by iMuseum

The Isle of Man TT archive is now powered by data from Manx National Heritage iMuseum via a custom publication endpoint configured within their CIIM platform.

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Our role in Project ReShare development and a call for participation

Project ReShare is a new initiative to build a fully open source resource sharing, Interlibrary Loan (ILL) system for use in stand-alone and consortial interlending scenarios.

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IWM’s Permanent Digital Memorial

We’re pleased to be working again with the Imperial War Museums on their ambitious ‘Permanent Digital Memorial.’

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RAF Museum re-opening

The RAF Museum London has re-opened after a multi-million pound redevelopment and our CIIM middleware is providing its digital content delivery platform on the web, mobile and in-gallery.

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The National Gallery

We are delighted to have been selected to develop and deliver a Collection Information Data Aggregation Service for the National Gallery, based on our CIIM middleware product.

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City of Lincoln launch ARCADE

ARCADE is a publicly-accessible database that categorises, maps, and describes the rich cultural heritage of the City of Lincoln, showcasing the diversity of the city’s long history from Roman times to the present. It was built using the Arches open-source data-management platform with hosting, support and customisation provided by Knowledge Integration.

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Extensis Portfolio user group meeting at National Gallery

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