| 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/
Handout (MS Word)