LofT Notes 8 - 11/1/2002
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LofT Notes is a periodic newsletter designed to keep UVa Library staff informed about new and interesting digital initiatives being undertaken throughout the Library, upcoming speakers and presentations, and other news. In this Issue:
The Collections Group has appointed new members to the Digital Content Review Team. They are Mike Furlough, Fred O'Bryant, and Mike Plunkett, who will join continuing members Melinda Baumann (chair), Karen Marshall, Jane Penner, Judy Thomas, and Ann Whiteside. Their charge is to serve as an advisory board to Digital Library Production Services (DLPS) in matters of digital content selection and creation. They advise Director of DLPS on the allocation of DLPS funding and resources; create and review digital selection policies; determine procedures for the solicitation and vetting of digital projects; select and fund interdisciplinary digital projects; resolve issues of digital quality and standards; prioritize existing digital content for migration to central repository; communicate with technical review teams about selected digital content as needed and appropriate; and communicate with selectors as needed and appropriate.
Four Digital Library Working Groups have recently submitted reports that are now available online:
A complete list of Digital Library planning documents and reports are available at http://www.lib.virginia.edu/digital/reports/
The exhibit Lewis and Clark: The Maps of Exploration 1507-1814 will open on November 11, 2002, and remain open until May 5, 2003. The exhibit can be viewed in the McGregor Room at Alderman Library. The accompanying web site (http://www.lib.virginia.edu/exhibits/lewis_clark) will be available on or after the 11th. Lewis and Clark: The
Maps of Exploration 1507-1814 examines the planning of the Lewis and Clark
Expedition and the cartographic tradition that made the expedition possible.
The exhibition shows the evolving views of the American continent and the
"Passage to the Indies" as they appear in maps from the time of
Columbus up to the Lewis and Clark Expedition. The exhibition includes many
titles that Thomas Jefferson owned in his personal library; almost all of
the items on display are original. A number of Library staff
members have been working on the digital materials related to Lewis and Clark.
Staff from Special Collection have been digitizing UVa collections. Staff
from the Geostat Center have been processing images of maps received from
outside sources, and scanning maps from outside sources that required digitizing.
Staff from DLPS and the American Studies Information Community are jointly
working on the 8 volume Original Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
(F592.4 1904b). The 7 volumes of text have been marked up and will be searchable;
and the 8th volume of maps have been scanned in full color. Also in process
is the two-volume History of the Expedition Under the Command of Captains
Lewis and Clark.
Fedora™ "alpha" Software Released to International Deployment Group The Digital Library Research and Development group is hosting a three-day meeting from October 31-November 2 for its international Fedora deployment partners. The "alpha release" (first version) of the software will be distributed to all of the partners at the meeting, and the representatives will be trained in the installation, setup and use of the repository software. Staff from the new Digital Imprint of the University of Virginia Press will also be attending, as they hope to use the Fedora repository software in their operations. Interest in using the software has also been expressed by the UVa Systems Engineering department, where a student is developing an anti-terrorism digital resource bank. The final release of the respository software is expected to be completed and distributed by April 2003.
The Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities and The Digital Library Research Group present a talk by Dr. Barbara Tillett, Chief, Cataloging Policy and Support Office, The U.S. Library of Congress: "Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records: What is FRBR and how will it impact our cataloging rules and authority control?" This presentation covers the conceptual model presented in the International Federation of Library Associations' Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR), the entities, relationships, and attributes from that model, and how it is currently affecting work on the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, including an extension of the model into the realm of authority control. Tuesday, November 12, 2002,
10:00 - 11:00 a.m. Sponsored by the Supporting Digital Scholarship project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. |