| 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:
- Climatology Virginia
- Open URL Resolver and SingleSearch
- Repository Implementation Website
- Fedora™ 1.2.1 Software
Released
- Supporting Digital Scholarship
Climatology Virginia
Climatology Virginia was developed by the SEL Digital Lab and the Geostat
Center as a resource to enhance the pure research capabilities of those
engaged in the field, while lending context wherever possible to encourage
a broad reach of understanding. Climatology Virginia brings together many
of the facets that make up climate research in the Commonwealth and presents
via the Web. In its first phase, Climatology Virginia includes Interactive
Data, Dataset Documentation, Unique Records, UVa Resources, Off Grounds
Resources, and Electronic Texts.
http://datastore.lib.virginia.edu/vaclim/vaclim_index.html
OpenURL Resolver and
SingleSearch
Work continues on the trial implementation of Single Search, Resolver,
and the Rooms portal software. Over 15,000 journal titles in various collections
have been added to the Resolver knowledge base, and work continues on adding
the individually subscribed items. Resolver can be seen online at the URL
below, but it is still a work in progress and will not be linked to any
of our indexing services until all titles are entered and we have revised
and tested the user interface. Sirsi is currently configuring an initial
group of 100 indexes, library catalogs, and full-text databases for use
with SingleSearch and training on the SingleSearch administrative module
will take place later this month. Work on the Rooms portal manager has been
postponed to allow us to use a new version due out later in the summer.
Training will be scheduled for July.
http://scripta.lib.virginia.edu:8080/1cate
Repository Implementation
Website
The team taking part in the implementation of the Library's Central Digital
Repository has set up a website where project details, including assumptions,
specifications, standards, and work plans are available. The site also include
a FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) page.
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/digital/resndev/fedora_imp/
Fedora™ 1.2.1 Software
Released
Version 1.2.1 of the Fedora™ digital object repository management
system was released as open source under a Mozilla public license on April
20, 2004. Fedora is a foundation upon which interoperable web-based digital
libraries, institutional repositories, and other information management
systems can be built. Continued development is on schedule for periodic
new releases through early 2005.
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/digital/resndev/fedora.html
http://www.fedora.info/
Supporting Digital Scholarship
The Supporting Digital Scholarship project has completed its third year
and issued its final report. The project was developed jointly by Library
and the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH) to investigate
the implications of collecting digital scholarly projects into a digital
library, and funded by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The
premise of the project is that scholars, given the resources and the support
needed, create digital projects that are more like virtual museum exhibitions
than like books. These projects usually include large collections of digital
versions of primary resources with a network of complex interrelationships
interwoven with original scholarly commentary. A number of Library staff
participated in both the Technical and the Policy committees. The final
report is available at the URL below. The report discusses the technical
problems encountered in collecting selections from the Rossetti Archive
(http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/rossetti/),
the Salisbury Project (http://www.iath.virginia.edu/salisbury/),
the Tibetan and Himalayan Digital Library (http://www.thdl.org/),
and the Pompeii Forum Project (http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/pompeii/),
and policy implications for the Library in collecting such projects.
http://www.iath.virginia.edu/sds/SDS_AR_2003.html
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