====== University of Maryland Digital Repository ====== * **Ouverture** Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 21, No. 378. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 06:17:32 +0000 From: Susan Schreibman Subject: launch of U of Maryland's Digital Repository The University of Maryland Libraries is delighted to announce the launch of its digital collections portal at This release marks two and a half years of work in the creation of a repository that serves the teaching and research mission of the University of Maryland Libraries. Many of the objects are digital versions from Maryland's Special Collections (such as A Treasury of World's Fairs Art and Architecture) or are new virtual collections (The Jim Henson Works). Other collections (such as Films@UM) support the teaching mission of the Libraries. This release also marks the integration of electronically available finding aids, ArchivesUM, into the repository architecture, creating a framework for digital objects to be dynamically discovered from finding aids. The repository is based on the Fedora platform, uses Lucene for indexing, and Helix for streaming video. The repository features almost 2500 digital objects, with new objects added monthly. Object types currently delivered include full text (both TEI and EAD), video, and images. Objects can be discovered within a collection context or via a search across multiple collections. Cross-collection discovery is achieved through a common metadata scheme and controlled vocabulary. This metadata scheme also provides for individual collections to have more granular domain-specific metadata. We welcome feedback and comments at http://www.lib.umd.edu/digital/contact.jsp With all best wishes, Susan Schreibman -- Susan Schreibman, PhD Assistant Dean Head of Digital Collections and Research McKeldin Library University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 Phone: 301 314 0358 Fax: 301 314 9408 Email: sschreib@umd.edu http://lib.umd.edu/dcr http://irith.org http://macgreevy.org ---- * **OAI Harvesting** Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 21, No. 472. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/cch/research/publications/humanist.html www.princeton.edu/humanist/ Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:31:23 +0000 From: Susan Schreibman Subject: OAI Harvesting at U of Maryland Digital Repository The University of Maryland Libraries is delighted to announce that records from our Digital Collections repository are available for OAI-PMH Harvesting. The Digital Collections repository consists of some 3000 digital objects, many of them from the Libraries own holdings: http://lib.umd.edu/digital/oaicat/OAIHandler For questions about the records, please contact libdcr@umd.edu With all best wishes, Susan -- Susan Schreibman, PhD Assistant Dean Head of Digital Collections and Research McKeldin Library University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 Phone: 301 314 0358 Fax: 301 314 9408 Email: sschreib@umd.edu http://lib.umd.edu/dcr http://irith.org http://macgreevy.org