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August 15, 2003, for July 2001-July 2003
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Absalom, Absalom! Electronic,
Interactive! Chronology
Interactive (Flash-based) chronology mapping of the complex structure
of this work by William Faulkner. Augmented by digital audio files
of talks by Faulkner at UVA in the 1957 and 1958, and page images from
Faulkner's notes on the chronology, which are housed in UVa Library Special
Collections.
http://etext.virginia.edu/railton/absalom/
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The American Soldier Surveys
During W.W.II, the Army conducted hundreds of surveys of American troops,
covering topics relating to soldiers' attitudes toward the war, morale,
and education. The collective survey results affected many aspects
of federal policy in the post-war years, from promotion of the GI bill
extending educational benefits to veterans, to desegregation of the military.
The Geostat collection contains 137 surveys covering 78 different studies.
http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/amso/amsoindex.htm
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The Barcelona Collection
The Barcelona Collection consists of approximately 850 images shot on
site in Barcelona, Spain and a small number of images digitized from the
Fine Arts Library Visual Collection. The present collection is the
result of work done on a grant-funded annual trip to Barcelona by graduate
students in the University of Virginia School of Architecture. Most
of the images were shot on site by the professors and students, and were
intended as part of the teaching environment for the annual Barcelona
studio class. Since the Barcelona studio class continues to be an
annual event, the collection will continue to grow and evolve.
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Cabell Family Papers
UVa possesses tens of thousands of manuscripts relating to the Cabell
Family. This online collection consists of over 150 HTML pages as
well as hundreds of scanned primary source documents. Specialized
areas include Contributions to American History, Cabells and their
Times, and Cabells and the University of Virginia.
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/speccol/collections/cabell/
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Colonial Revival in America: Annotated
Bibliography
Originating from the University of Virginia’s Architecture Department,
this bibliography provides an annotated listing of scholarly and popular
literature that addresses the Colonial Revival in architecture, painting,
sculpture, landscape design, decorative arts, furniture, and cultural
studies from the 1870s to the present. It selectively samples the
vast store of Colonial Revival literature, and is intended to be comprehensive,
but not all-inclusive.
http://etext.virginia.edu/colonial/
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Dictionary of the History of Ideas
Published in its original edition in 1973-74 and last reprinted in 1977-1980,
the Dictionary of the History of Ideas was a culminating work in
a tradition that had been energized by the fight against fascism.
It was a tradition committed to the pursuit of disinterested scholarship
in the academic sphere and to free expression of thought in the political
sphere (as in Arnaldo Momigliano's article "Freedom of Speech in
Antiquity"). This project was undertaken in collaboration with
The Journal of the History of Ideas and in permission granted from
the Gale Group.
http://www.historyofideas.org
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Digital Map Library
Virginia (ESRI data for Virginia and its neighboring states), National
(coverage for the United States using USGS Digital Line Graph [DLG] data
and ESRI data), and World (an assortment of digital maps using public
domain data sets and ESRI data) digital map library, plus Virginia 2000
Census maps.
http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/genmaps/
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Duke Family Papers Online
UVa Special Collections houses many of the Virginia-related Duke Family
papers. This online collection provides historical contextualization
of the primary source material. The site, focusing on Richard Thomas
Walker Duke Jr., will deliver the digital facsimiles of his entire Recollections
(five volumes) as well as the forty volumes of his diaries.
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/speccol/collections/duke/
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Early American Fiction 1850-1875 (EAF
Phase II)
The University has completed processing of 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 were also digitized.
Final release is scheduled for late 2003.
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/eaf/
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The Gentleman’s Magazine Union
List of Authorial Attributions
This database, aggregated and edited by Lorraine de Montluzin, now has
several thousand more entries and has been condensed into one database
instead of its previous three. The database will be available in
September 2003, and will be available through the Bibliographical Society’s
Publications page
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/bsuva/pubs.html
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Historical Archaeology in Loudoun Valley
and Harpers Ferry
Archaeological and historical research concerning 18th and 19th century
sites in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, and nearby Loudoun Valley, Virginia,
as well as the broader region of the upper Potomac and northern Shenandoah
Valleys .
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/users/fennell/highland/harper/loudoun.html
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Japanese Text Initiative (JTI)
The University of Virginia Library Electronic Text Center and the University
of Pittsburgh East Asian Library sponsor the Japanese Text Initiative,
a collaborative effort to make texts of classical Japanese literature
available on the Web. Dozens of texts and a Japanese Haiku Topical
Dictionary have been added. The Japanese characters are fully searchable
for all JTI texts. A new grant from the Toshiba International Foundation
in 2003 is supporting the expansion of the corpus.
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/japanese/whatsnew.html
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Jefferson Country
Jefferson Country is a survey of the architecture of an historic significant
region of Virginia, the county of Albemarle and the city of Charlottesville.
This expansive survey, produced under the supervision of professor emeritus
Edward K. Lay, has a far-reaching audience of national and regional scholars
of American Architecture. Edward K. Lay's book The Architecture
of Jefferson Country: Charlottesville and Albemarle County, Virginia was
published in 2000 by the University Press of Virginia. A CD-ROM
version, containing the complete text and figures from the book and a
searchable database of 2,409 structures illustrated with 3,359 images,
was published by the Albemarle County Historical Society and produced
by the Digital Media Lab of the Robertson Media Center that same year.
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Jeffersonian Cyclopedia
9,000 entries on Thomas Jefferson quotations, searchable and browseable
by theme, date, topic, recipient, and place of publication, relating to
Government, Politics, Law, Education, Political Economy, Finance, Science,
Art, Literature, Religious Freedom, and Morals. From the 1900 edition,
edited by John P. Foley.
http://etext.virginia.edu/jefferson/quotations/foley/
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The Journal of Scriptural Reasoning
Published by the Society of Scriptural Reasoning, the Journal gathers
religion and text scholars into a conversation in which the richness and
depth of diverse scriptural readings can be uncovered, discussed, and
interpreted.
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/journals/ssr/
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Journal of Textual Reasoning
Published by the Society for Textual Reasoning, the Journal publishes
essays in the exegetical analyses of Jewish texts and the practice and
theory of textual reasoning.
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/journals/tr/
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Lewis and Clark and the Corps of Discovery
Two full-text editions of the Journals of Lewis and Clark (1814 and 1904)
with page images; a page image edition of A journal of the voyages
and travels of a corps of discovery, under the command of Capt. Lewis
and Capt. Clarke; by Patrick Gass; a page image edition of Catalogue
of Catlin's Indian gallery or portraits, landscapes, manners and customs,
costumes, &tc.; and George Catlin Indian Paintings Collection
from the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
http://infocomm.lib.virginia.edu/amst/lewisclark.html
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Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever
Collection
The Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection is an extensive
compilation of correspondence, notes, reports, printed materials, photographs,
negatives, and artifacts spanning a period of almost one hundred years.
About 5,500 items comprise the first phase of this archive, with 3,000
more coming in early 2004.
http://yellowfever.lib.virginia.edu/reed/
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The Renaissance in Print: Sixteenth-Century
French Books in the Douglas Gordon Collection
Rare Materials Digital Services and the University of Virginia French
Department have launched a collaborative project that will make rare books
from the French Renaissance era accessible to the public on the Web.
The online collection will include digital facsimiles of sixteenth-century
printed books in the Douglas H.
Gordon Collection and an on-line network of resources designed to
situate the books within the rich context of the French Renaissance.
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/speccol/collections/gordon.html
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Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive
and Transcription Project
This faculty-led project consists of an electronic collection of primary
source materials relating to the Salem witch trials of 1692 and a new
transcription of the court records. Electronic texts, page digitization,
and digital map resources have been created for this project by the UVa
Library.
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/salem/
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The Studies in Bibliography Ebook
Archive
An archive of all back issues of the eminent journal of scholarly bibliography
published by the Bibliographical Society at the University of Virginia
re-purposed from their XML base into Ebooks for the MS Reader.
http://etext.virginia.edu/bsuva/sb/sbebooks.html
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Thomas Jefferson Digital Archive
A continually expanding collection of electronic texts, digital scholarship,
and UVa collections relating to Thomas Jefferson. Also contains hundreds
of MSS images.
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/Jefferson/
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The TEIP4 Guidelines
A searchable and browseable interface for the most recent incarnation
of the Text Encoding Initiative Guidelines for use by scholars and encoders.
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/tei
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Tibetan and Himalayan Digital Library
A consortial, integrated environment for digital publication of many diverse
projects, digital and non-digital, relating to Tibet and the Himalayas.
The resources include a video and audio database, an interactive map of
Tibet, virtual models, electronic texts, a Tibetan Dictionary, and a translation
tool.
http://www.thdl.org/
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University of Virginia Online Visual
History
A growing collection of images related to UVa as well as pulled from UVa
collections, this resource contains over 7,000 images and is augmented
weekly. This is a collaborative project with the University’s
News Services, Development Communications, and the Provost’s Office.
http://mcgregor.lib.virginia.edu/prints/
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The Virginia Gazetteer
The Virginia Gazetteer contains the official name, type, and location
of over 51,000 geographic features in Virginia. The Virginia Gazetteer
is linked to an inventory of collections archived at the Geostat Center,
allowing the gazetteer to function as a geographic catalog for the Geostat
collections.
http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/vagaz/frontpage.phtml
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The Virginia Heritage Project
The Virginia Heritage Project concluded successfully in December
2002. Over the course of the grant, Special Collections encoded
2,203 collection guides in the EAD format, representing 27,923 pages of
text. The project was awarded the SOLINET Outstanding Library Program
Award for Preservation and Electronic Information on March 25, 2003.
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/vhp/
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The Virginia State Elected Officials
Database Project
The Virginia State Elected Officials Database consists of approximately
37,000 annual records, with each record containing a discrete array of
biographical and institutional information. It provides the first
web-based compilation of the more than 8,500 individuals who have served
as Governor, State Delegate or State Senator from 1776 to 2003, and enables
quantitative analysis of legislative tenure in Virginia. Recent
improvements to the backend database architecture have produced a more
sustainable architecture that allows for inclusion of related data, including
electoral data and details on candidacy in recent decades.
http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/valeg
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Westward Exploration
4,500 page image scans of 19th century American materials related to westward
exploration after Lewis and Clark will soon be available online.
Many of the volumes are extensively illustrated, and all are housed in
UVa Library's Special Collections.
http://infocomm.lib.virginia.edu/amst/lewisclark.html
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The Writings of George Washington from
the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799
Published an extensive archive of writings on or by George Washington.
The archive is the electronic edition of John C. Fitzpatrick’s
comprehensive study, “The Writings of George Washington from the
Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799,” a collection of more than
17,400 letters and documents.
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/Washington/fitzpatrick
B. Services
Public Services
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The Electronic Text Center develops
and maintains most of the library's collection of electronic texts, including
materials in fifteen languages. Especially notable are the collections
of materials in English and American literature and complete works of
major writers in the history of philosophy. Etext provides training
and project management expertise, access to equipment that permits the
creation and analysis of electronic texts, and a place in which to use
the electronic texts that are not available on-line.
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/
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The Digital Media Lab of the Robertson
Media Center develops and provides collections of digital images, sound,
and video for use in research and instruction. The Lab offers consulting
services in digital media production and project planning, hands-on tutorials
and short courses, a full array of scanners and video and audio digitization
equipment, and analog editing equipment.
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/dmc/
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Instructional Scanning Services and
Electronic Reserves (formerly called Toolkit Scanning Services) is
part of a suite of services maintained by the University Library to support
the UVa faculty in its use of electronic materials for instruction.
Primarily, ISS services take the form of scanning materials into a .PDF
format and uploading them to the Instructor's Toolkit learning management
system as additional readings. ISS also links materials already
in electronic format to the Instructor's Toolkit, and scans materials
for other instructional uses. Material digitized by Instructional
Scanning Services is made available as electronic course reserves through
the Instructor's Toolkit system. Course number or the instructor's
last names are added into VIRGO records representing physical and electronic
reserves, allowing online searching for all reserves, regardless of format.
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/leo/iss.html
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The Geospatial & Statistical Data
Center (Geostat) provides access to a variety of online spatial and
statistical data resources and several offline electronic data products
that can be used in the Center. The GIS data collection has a particular
focus on current and historic Virginia data. The statistical data
collection includes web resources such as the Inter-university Consortium
for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) and International Financial
Statistics, as well as a variety of homegrown databases providing web
access to federally produced data. Geostat also provides computing
facilities for data manipulation, research, and instruction, and works
closely with faculty and students to train them in the use of its tools
and collections.
http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/
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Rare Materials Digital Services
provides digitization of primary and secondary materials from the Library's
rare materials to support the teaching and research mission of the University
as well as to increase access to these unique items. Rare Materials Digital Services also delivers a variety of digital image collections,
including the Holsinger Studio Collection, the Jackson Davis Collection
of African-American Educational Photographs, UVa Visual History Online,
and the Jefferson Architecture Electronic Archive. SCDS also produces
the Department's online exhibitions. .
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/scds/
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Document Delivery
The Library offers electronic document delivery for both ILL items and
items held locally. Articles are delivered in PDF format, and both
borrowing and notification of availability are handled through the catalog
and Z39.50 modules of VIRGO, the Library's SIRSI system.
Production Services
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Digital Library Production Services
(DLPS) was created in August 2001, and is charged with building a sustainable
digital core collection in a cost-effective, efficient manner. The
department, part of Library Central Services, is an integral part of the
operations of the Library, but is not a public service unit. DLPS
has six FTEs, and focuses on large-scale text and image creation, processing,
and archiving to start, intending to produce other formats in the near
future.
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/digital/services/dlps.html
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Central Digital Repository
In March 2002, UVa Library and Cornell University began work on Fedora™,
and, alongside it, the first phase prototype of a Central Digital Repository
for UVA. Fedora version 1.0 was complete in May 2003. During
summer 2003, a first phase prototype public interface was tested for the
repository. Input was solicited across the Library staff on the design,
functionality and usability, as well as suggestions for improvements and
additional functionality. Improvements and additions were categorized
and prioritized, guiding the development of the interface and disseminators
(delivery programs) for our Fedora-based repository implementation in
late 2003 and early 2004.
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/digital/resndev/repository.html
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Descriptive Metadata Specification:
UVa DescMeta
UVa DescMeta is a project led by our cataloging department to produce
a set of descriptive elements for specifying the intellectual content
of digital resources. Initially derived from the Dublin Core specification,
they have been adapted and extended for local use. The updated specification
provides a more precise description of visual, geospatial, statistical,
textual, and archival resources. The UVa Library has developed an
XML DTD, as well as initial use guidelines.
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Formatting Objects Production
The Etext Center is researching and building tools to automate the conversion
of its XML-encoded text collections into “Print on Demandable”
objects.
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General Descriptive Modeling Scheme
(GDMS)
(GDMS) is a project developed a DTD for creating XML files that are structured,
annotated descriptions of digital collections. An infinitely recursive
set of structural units: each may contain a narrative, a descriptive metadata
record and references to, and metadata about, any number of digital resources.
GDMS is being tested in several faculty digital projects to describe buildings,
archeological sites and artworks, creating structural metadata for digital
objects that provide access to related sets of digital images. The
model will give scholarly projects a formal structure, making them more
collectible than the existing HTML websites.
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/digital/resndev/gdms.html
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/digital/reports/metadata.html
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IRIS
In April-May 2003, the UVa Fine Arts Library evaluated the IRIS visual
resources collection management tool developed at Brown University.
The system was licensed and put in place in June to support cataloging
of visual materials and export data in GDMS format for inclusion in the
Central Digital Repository.
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Music Encoding Initiative
The Music Encoding Initiative (MEI) DTD is an XML DTD for the representation
and exchange of music information. It is designed to be comprehensive,
that is, it provides ways to encode data from all the separate domains,
i.e. logical, visual, gestural (performance), and analytical, commonly
associated with music. In addition, the DTD accommodates bibliographic
description that is required for archival uses. It also addresses
relationships between elements, cooperative creation and editing of music
markup, navigation within the music structure as well as to external multimedia
entities, the inclusion of custom symbols, etc. Additionally, unlike
all other music representation schemes, MEI can record the scholarly textual
apparatus frequently found in modern editions of music. Furthermore,
adopting techniques employed in the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) DTD,
the MEI DTD is flexible and extensible.
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User Collection Tool
Development of a user-defined image collection tool in MySQL and PHP 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.
http://iris.lib.virginia.edu/dmmc/collectiontool/index.html
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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, developed as a tool for the
Supporting Digital Scholarship project.
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Building an American Studies Information
Community
This project is funded by the Andrew Mellon Foundation. The project,
begun in March 2002, focuses 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 centers around building the
appropriate collections, 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 Initiative servers.
http://infocomm.lib.virginia.edu/amst/
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/digital/resndev/amst_grant.html
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The Cambridge Scholarly Edition of the
Works of Ben Jonson
In collaboration with David Gants, the Electronic Text Center and Rare Materials Digital Services are helping to produce a scholarly electronic
edition of the Ben Jonson first folio and quarto. The publication
and form of this edition is still under consideration.
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Clotel: A Scholarly Electronic
Edition
A Scholarly Electronic Edition of William Wells Brown’s classic
novel (the “first” African-American novel) being produced
in collaboration with Christopher Mulvey of King Alfred’s College.
The goal for delivery is Fall 2003 or Spring 2004.
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Digital Initiatives Site
In July 2003, the UVa Library launched a publicly accessible site to describe
its digital initiatives. The site includes descriptions of projects
and programs, as well as reports on research and development, standards,
and best practices.
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/digital/
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Middle High German Interlinked
A $250,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) is supporting
the University of Virginia Library and the University of Trier, Germany,
in the digitization of some 100 medieval German texts and several related
dictionaries. Completion is expected in early 2004.
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Page Barbour Lectures: B.F. Skinner’s
Lectures on “A Technology of Behavior,” 1959
These audio tapes, housed in UVA Library’s Special Collections,
are being converted by the Digital Media Lab to digital sound files for
online delivery.
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TEI/NEH Task Force on SGML to XML
Migration
Text Encoding Initiative-sponsored international working group to survey
current practice in application of the TEI encoding scheme, in particular
with respect to the usage of SGML in electronic repositories.
The group has identified technical, organizational, or other challenges
and opportunities presented by the conversion of legacy data to P4 XML
format; and proposed migration strategies and practices.
http://www.tei-c.org/Activities/MI/
Earlier Projects
in progress, 2003:
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Center on Religion and Democracy Online
The mission of the Center on Religion and Democracy is to develop
the critical insights and resources of careful academic study concerning
religion and public life, and to make them available to everyone concerned
with responding creatively and strategically to the challenges posed by
our time. All of the titles in the Center on Religion and Democracy
E-Text Library, marked up by the Electronic Text Center, are available
online and in Ebook formats.
http://religionanddemocracy.lib.virginia.edu/
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Supporting Digital Scholarship
Supporting Digital Scholarship is a joint project between the Institute
for Advanced Technology in the Humanities and the University of Virginia
Library to investigate the implications of collecting digital scholarly
projects into a digital library. This project, now in its third
and final year, was funded by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
The final report will discuss the technical problems that we have 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/)
into the Library's Central Digital Repository, and policy implications
for the Library in collecting such projects.
http://www.iath.virginia.edu/sds/
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Information Communities
An Information Community consists of the people (authors, publishers,
and users), the collections (texts, images, videos, audio, and maps),
and the tools provided for interacting with those collections. The
UVa Library provides the technological, administrative, and organizational
infrastructure for these collections, but relies on individual scholars
and collaborative projects. American Studies and Tibetan and Himalayan
communities are well under way; an Architecture community is under development.
Communities focusing on data about Virginia and on Poetry are in the planning
stages.
http://infocomm.lib.virginia.edu/index.html
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Library of Tomorrow
LofT is a 5-year program to transform the traditional library into the
model research library for the future, which is now in its third year.
Five planning teams (Digital Content Creation and Preservation; Resource
Management; Library Portal; Digital Content Selection and Acquisition;
Information Communities) addressed important policy and processes needed
to ensure the success of the project, and issued reports with recommendations
for establishing workflow, responsibilities, decision-making points, and
quality assurance methods. Implementation of the recommendations
is underway, and an evaluation of the project will start in fall 2003.
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/digital/info/LofT.html
III. Specific
Digital Library Challenges
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Enforcement of access restrictions
UVA would like to be able to establish a policy for the use of a digital
object that could be matched with the characteristics of the user making
the request. Under consideration is the use of a digital certificate
to authenticate the user coupled with a set of policies for either the
objects and/or their components.
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Scalability of production and user support
services
We are the victims of our own successful marketing of services, and must
determine procedures for more efficient and effective workflows.
IV. Digital library publications, policies, working
papers, and other documents
Publications
2003
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Gibson, Matthew, and Christine Ruotolo.
"Beyond the Web: TEI, the Digital Library, and the Ebook Revolution."
Computers and the Humanities 37, no. 1 (2003): pp. 57-63.
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Payette, Sandra and Thornton Staples, "The
Mellon Fedora Project: Digital Library Architecture Meets XML and Web
Services," Sixth European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology
for Digital Libraries. Lecture Notes in Computer Science,
Vol. 2459. Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg New York (2002):
pp. 406-421.
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"Hybrid Libraries--Bringing the Physical
and Digital Together." Leslie Johnston (Panel Moderator), 2003
Joint Conference on Digital Libraries.
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"The Early American Fiction Project."
Christine Ruotolo, invited speaker, OCLC Conference "E-Books &
Beyond."
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"Information Communities."
Christine Ruotolo, spring 2003 Digital Library Federation Forum.
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" The
Fedora Project." Thornton Staples and Sandra Payette, spring
2003 Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) meeting.
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Reports
UVa Library Reports on Local Standards, and Policies and Best
Practices are available at:
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