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Blacklight at Stanford: A Highly Leveraged, Reusable Discovery Tool

Home / Project Briefing Pages / CNI Fall 2009 Project Briefings / Blacklight at Stanford: A Highly Leveraged, Reusable Discovery Tool

December 17, 2009

Tom Cramer
Associate Director, Digital Library Systems and Services
Stanford University

 

Blacklight is an open source, “next generation” discovery application that works equally well for library catalogs as for digital repositories. Originally developed at the University of Virginia, it has since been adopted by a growing number of institutions, including Stanford University. Within the Stanford Libraries’ digital ecosystem, Blacklight is being leveraged as a central component in a broad range of applications, from a library “discovery layer” to a repository front-end, from a digital manuscript viewer to a catalogers’ tool. This project briefing will provide an overview of Blacklight, its capabilities and its advantages as a highly-reusable discovery application. It will also outline Stanford’s rationale for choosing Blacklight, provide examples of the system in operation in a variety of contexts, and cover the state and direction of both the code and the community for this open source project.

http://projectblacklight.org

http://searchworks.stanford.edu

http://search.lib.virginia.edu

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Filed Under: CNI Fall 2009 Project Briefings, Information Access & Retrieval, User Services
Tagged With: CNI2009fall, Project Briefings & Plenary Sessions

Last updated:  Friday, August 12th, 2022

 

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