UVA Library Report to the Digital Library Federation
July 1, 2001
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Collections, Services, and Systems
- Projects and Programs
- Explorations in Black Leadership
Digitization of text, video and audio documenting the personal and
professional lives of prominent African-American leaders, supporting
a program co-sponsored by the Virginia Institute for Public History
and the Darden School of Business.
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/clemons/RMC/dml.html
- The Music of John Powell
Digitization of recordings and scores of the American composer and
pianist John Powell, from material held by the Special Collections
Library. This is a collaborative project among the Digital Media Lab,
Music Library, and Special Collections.
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/clemons/RMC/dml.html
- The View from Here
Digitization of materials in a variety of formats - audio, video,
text and images - documenting the local manifestation of events or
movements of national importance (the Vietnam War, Civil Rights, Women's
Liberation) in the central Virginia area. Much of the material resides
in Special Collections.
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/clemons/RMC/dml.html
- Oral Histories of the University
Development of a digital archive of 230 taped interviews, spanning
more than 40 years, relating to the history of UVA and the surrounding
region.
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/clemons/RMC/dml.html
- The Third Row
Creation of a multimedia tool for teaching advanced Hindi, based on
the integration of digital video, transcripts and critical commentary.
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/clemons/RMC/dml.html
- Creating 3-D Special Effects
Development of tools and processes to support the creation of a new
computer science course. This course will bring together students
of art and computer science in the development of innovative computer-based
special effects.
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/clemons/RMC/dml.html
- A Digital Primer for Architecture
Creation of an online archive to support the teaching of a cross-disciplinary
course in the study of architectural forms. Thomas Jefferson's original
conception for the Lawn at the University of Virginia is the locus
of the course. The material includes images, 3-D reconstructions and
animations. (Digital Media Lab). Digital Media Lab URL:
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/clemons/RMC/dml.html
- Digicoll
Development of a user-defined collection tool to allow individuals
to create data structures, set permissions and restrictions, and develop
online collections of materials in a variety of formats. This tool
is part of the collection-building toolbox for the Digital Library.
- Virginia State Legislature Database 1776-2001
Presenting membership roles and summary statistics regarding the membership
of the Virginia General Assembly. (Geospatial and Statistical Data
Center)
http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/valeg
- Virginia Heritage Project
UVA, representing VIVA (the Virtual Library of Virginia), was awarded
$250,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities to implement
the Virginia Heritage Project. The VHP has two primary goals. The
first goal is the creation of a large union database of EAD tagged
finding aids to archival collections in Virginia. The second goal
is the development and implementation of a model for statewide dissemination
of and training in newly emerging library standards and technologies.
The VHP is distinctive due to the collaborative efforts of over eleven
separate institutions, each contributing to the database and training.
(Special Collections)
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/speccol/vhp/
- EBook Library for the Palm Pilot
The eBook library for the Palm Pilot joins the previous eBook library
for the Microsoft Reader. Holdings increased (October 2000 - June
2001) by 500 titles with ongoing TEI to Palm/MS Reader is planned.
As of June 20, 2001, more than 3 million eBooks had been shipped since
August 2000. (Electronic Text Center)
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ebooks/
- Faculty/User Projects
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- Diary, correspondence, and papers of Robert "King" Carter,
1701-1732
Transcriptions of the diary, correspondence, and papers of the
richest and most important man of his day in Virginia. Edmund
Berkeley, Jr. UVa Emeritus. (Electronic Text Center)
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/users/Berkeley
- Attributions of Authorship in the European Magazine
Emily Lorraine de Montluzin, De Montfort University (Electronic
Text Center)
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/bsuva/euromag/
- Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman's Magazine,
1731-1868
Emily Lorraine de Montluzin, De Montfort University (Electronic
Text Center)
http://extext.lib.virginia.edu/gm/
- Virginia Runaways: Runaway Slave advertisements from 18th-century
Virginia newspapers.
Thomas Costa, Associate Professor of History, University of Virginia's
College at Wise (Electronic Text Center)
http://www.wise.virginia.edu/history/runaways/
- Mark Twain in His Times
Stephen Railton. UVa English Texts and contexts for Mark Twain,
drawing heavily on items in UVA's Special Collections Department.
(Electronic Text Center)
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/railton/
- The Construction of the University of Virginia, 1817-1828
[PhD dissertation]
Frank E. Grizzard, Jr, UVa Washington Papers A comprehensive documentary
edition of the papers surrounding the construction of the Academical
Village, Jefferson's 19th-century architectural masterpiece at
the University of Virginia at Charlottesville. (Electronic Text
Center)
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/jefferson/grizzard/
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- Grant funded projects
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- Mellon Foundation grant: Early American Fiction 1850-1875
(Phase II)
The University is processing this Mellon-funded collection of
400 volumes of American fiction (1850-1875), including works by
Louisa May Alcott, Samuel Clemens, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman
Melville, Harriet Beecher Stowe and some 90 other 19th century
novelists. Each text exists as a full set of color page-images
and a searchable XML text. Biographies and supporting manuscript
materials are also being digitized. First release -- Fall 2001.
(Electronic Text Center)
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/eaf/
- National Science Foundation grant: "Middle High German Interlinked"
Digitizing and interlinking XML medieval German dictionaries and
texts. Partner: University of Trier. 2 years [2001-2003]. (Electronic
Text Center)
- Private donor: Center for Religion and Democracy Online
Sub-contract to Jeff Hadden; Pam Cochrane; James Hunter, UVA Sociology.
[2001-2004] (Electronic Text Center)
- Etext Center Endowment: Challenge grant from NEH
A $500,000 gift [Spring 2001] has moved the Electronic Text Center
closer to completing the five-year challenge grant from NEH. NEH
has pledged to match funds raised by UVA to encourage the development
of an endowment for the Electronic Text Center. Additional funds
were also provided to support new projects and initiatives.
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- Grant Sub-Contracts
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- The Electronic Text Center is providing XML, TEI, web hosting, vendor
negotiation, and other digitizing sub-contracting work on the following
active grant projects (PIs noted below):
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- Digital Library Repository update
The R&D group has begun to rigorously stress test the implementation
using software that simulates simultaneous users requesting a realistic
mixture of different requests. On a Sun Ultra80 two-processor workstation,
simulating 20 simultaneous users making requests with an average delay
of 300 milliseconds, response time averages are approximately one
half second per request. Note that for most of the XML object transactions
this includes a server-side rendering of the XML into HTML, a relatively
processor-intensive action. The process of moving the repository to
a four-processor, dedicated server has begun. This is where we will
continue the testing. The plan is to start scaling the testbed up
by duplicating the existing objects repeatedly, running the user tests
at 1,000,000 and 10,000,000 objects. (Digital Library Research and
Development)
- WebCollector
The "WebCollector" tool is a Java application that may be used as
an aid to collect and preserve existing scholarship published in HTML
and incorporate it into a data repository. (Digital Library Research
and Development)
- Library of Tomorrow Update
After a five-month planning process, the Library released its Library
of Tomorrow implementation plan. Entitled "Preparing for our Future",
this document calls for a new central digital production facility,
new methods for acquiring and managing digital collections, the development
of "information communities", and recommends the development of a
series of Library produced information channels for the University
portal system.
http://staff.lib.virginia.edu/LofT/
- Teaching with Technology Experiment
The Library and the University's central computing organization are
partnering on an initiative to make it easy for faculty to acquire
the skills needed to introduce technology in the classroom in support
of teaching and learning. Faculty will commit to training that will
enable use of technology in teaching. In exchange they will receive
a full-configured laptop and support for implementing their individual
proposal for teaching with technology.
- Building an American Studies Information Community
This project is funded by the Andrew Mellon Foundation. The project
will focus on building the infrastructure for an information community
by concentrating on collections and tools that are particularly useful
to scholars and students studying American Culture. Goals for the
project include expanding our digital library testbed, developing
a set of tools and procedures for an American Studies community, and
developing the portal for that community. Work will center around
building the appropriate collection in the new digital library system
the Library is developing, starting with existing text, image, statistical
and GIS collections. Research will continue on how information technology
can be used to support and enhance the effort to harvest and enrich
metadata from collections that are bought or those that are acquired
by harvesting Open Archive servers.
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