Inventaire

Inventaire is a libre web application for building personal and collective book inventories, creating lists, and sharing libraries with others. It focuses on mapping books and editions using open bibliographic knowledge, notably via Wikidata and ISBN-based metadata, and can be run as a federated instance.

Key Features

• Create and manage personal libraries and book lists
• Collaborative cataloging that links works, editions, and ISBN data
• Uses open knowledge sources (including Wikidata) for enrichment and disambiguation
• Social features for sharing, discovering, and organizing books with communities
• Federated deployments to run separate instances while remaining interoperable
• Web API for integrating catalog and inventory data with other tools

Use Cases

• Track your personal library, lending, and reading-related lists
• Build a community catalog for a school, association, or local group
• Enrich or reconcile bibliographic datasets using open identifiers and metadata

Inventaire is well-suited for people and communities who want a book inventory system that emphasizes open data, collaboration, and interoperable deployments. Its architecture also makes it a strong foundation for custom integrations around bibliographic catalogs.