Library Cataloging
Authority Information
The latest issue of
D-Lib Magazine (Nov. 2003) v. 9, no. 11 has the article New Ways of Sharing and Using Authority Information The LEAF Project by Max Kaiser, Hans-Jorg Lieder, Kurt Majcen and Heribert Vallant.
This article presents an overview of the LEAF project (Linking and Exploring Authority Files)1, which has set out to provide a framework for international, collaborative work in the sector of authority data with respect to authority control.
Other articles include:
"Using MPEG-21 DIDL to Represent Complex Digital Objects in the Los Alamos National Laboratory Digital Library" by Jeroen Bekaert, Patrick Hochstenbach and Herbert Van de Sompel"Public Opinion Polls and Digital Preservation: An Application of the Fedora Digital Object Repository System" by Ronald Jantz"The DiVA Project - Development of an Electronic Publishing System" by Eva Muller, Uwe Klosa, Stefan Andersson, and Peter Hansson
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Openwms: Workflow Management System For Digital Objects
Rutgers has announced the release of OpenWMS: Workflow Management System for Digital Objects. The OpenWMS is a platform-independent, open source, web-accessible system that can be used as a standalone application or integrated with other repository architectures...
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Institutional Repositories
aDORe: a modular, standards-based Digital Object Repository by Herbert Van de Sompel, Jeroen Bekaert, Xiaoming Liu, Luda Balakireva, and Thorsten Schwander. Draft of Submission to Oxford University Press Computer Journal. This paper describes the aDORe...
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Institutional Repositories
Fedora (Flexible Extensible Digital Object and Repository Architecture) 2.0 has just been released.Fedora is an open source digital repository service that gives organizations the tools for managing these existing and emerging content management requirements....
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Digital Repository Management System
The Fedora project was established under the auspices of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to build a digital object repository management system based on the Flexible Extensible Digital Object and Repository Architecture (Fedora). The new system, designed...
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D-lib
The April issue of D-Lib Magazine has these articles that may be of interest:The Fedora Project: An Open-source Digital Object Repository Management System by Thornton Staples and Ross WaylandState of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, April 2003 by...
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