Kevin Kiernan
What you need to get started:
Digital images
Corresponding text
DTD
Software avaiable for download.
Easy to get started.
Encoding perspectives:
EPPT desktop, general editing
ImagText, encoding links between image and text
OverLay, combining views for textual analysis
DucType, paleographical anlysis
Glossary, comptehensive indexing
Quires, collation and reconstruction
SaMod, historiacal collation
Search
Customizing perspectives
Can create links to specific locations in the image file and provide multiple views [...]
Tom, April 17th 2007
Posted in Digital Libraries
Michael Lloyd Nelson
OAI-PMH deals with repositories.
OAI-ORE deals with objects.
Approach: Simple things should be understandable, complex things should be possible.
Need an html splash page for humans and indexing robots, but also need pointers to the real object for indexing and grabbing. Different repositories handle this linking in different ways (e.g., referenced in metadata with different [...]
Tom, April 17th 2007
Posted in Repositories, Research
What are we learning from repository implementations? [two speakers were unable to attend; others filled in, names were missed at introduction]
Cliff Lynch: We have now had some experience with building repositories and have learned that they do not populate themselves.
CalTech:
Started in 2000
Use ePrints software
Started with computer science technical reports
Moved onto other low-hanging fruit.
Began [...]
Tom, April 17th 2007
Posted in Digital Libraries, Higher Education, Repositories
D-Space’s Next Generation
John Mark Ockerbloom, Univ. Of Pennsylvania
DSpace project has become a non-profit organization to continue development. They have hired a director and will be hiring a CTO to oversee development. The new organization will support better intellectual property management for the software.
Why a new DSpace architecture?
Use, scale, and dependence on DSpace is growing.
The community [...]
Tom, April 16th 2007
Posted in Repositories
Stephen Murray, Prof. Of Art History and Architecture, Columbia University
Established one of the first new media centers.
Digital Technology in the Humanistic Quest: Production and Representation of Space in the Romanesque Churches of the Bourbonnais
Academics endlessly represent things; we write books about things that are not there, but there are limits to representation. There is a [...]
Tom, April 16th 2007
Posted in Digital Libraries, Research
I’ll be reporting from the CNI meeting in Phoenix this next couple of days.
Tom, April 16th 2007
Posted in Digital Libraries, Higher Education, Library Challenges, Miscellanea, Research
