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Creating an Integrated Digital Library Based on the Fedora Platform

Home / Project Briefing Pages / CNI Fall 2007 Project Briefings / Creating an Integrated Digital Library Based on the Fedora Platform

December 13, 2007

Susan Schreibman
Assistant Dean and Head of Digital Collections & Research
University of Maryland at College Park
David Kennedy
Applications Developer
University of Maryland at College Park

The University of Maryland Libraries launched its Digital Library Repository in July 2007 based on the Fedora platform. While two collections were mounted in Fedora about a year after implementation began, it took an additional 18 months to release an integrated repository which supports both federated searching across collections, as well as the development of individual ’boutique’ collections with their own interfaces, search parameters, and browse functionality. This session will focus on how these goals informed the development of an extensible framework that was flexible enough to accommodate multiple object types (images, full-text TEI and EAD, moving images, and audio) but which also supported cross-object retrieval.

The session will explore not only the technical issues faced, but the organizational issues in mounting a relatively complex architecture with limited resources. It will also discuss the various metadata schemes used in the system, as well as the system architecture, including the development of an API, object and content classifications, web services, and the development of the administrative interface. Lastly issues of migration, authentication and archival storage will be discussed.

http://www.lib.umd.edu/digital/

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Last updated:  Thursday, February 28th, 2013

 

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