Falvey Library announces VuDL: Open Source Digital Library Administration, Alpha Launch -- [Library Technology Guides]

Connotea Imports 2012-07-31

Summary:

"The Technology Development team at Villanova University's Falvey Memorial Library announces the official alpha launch of their open source digital library management software, VuDL (http://vudl.org). With VuDL, you can store, manipulate, display and make discoverable your digital collections. Most digital library software packages are targeted at either small/specific collections or very large/very complicated collections. The former may not have the functionality to describe your objects properly; the latter, too many options and therefore needless complexity. VuDL is designed to be somewhere in the middle: flexible enough to describe different ranges of objects, while small enough to diminish technical overhead. The simple-to-use Digital Library Administration application is powered by all open source technologies, and provides a METS metadata editor, service image generation tools, XML database repository, and a built-in OAI server...."

Link:

http://www.librarytechnology.org/ltg-displaytext.pl?RC=15608

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Tags:

oa.new oa.repositories ru.ps oa.software oa.floss oa.oai

Authors:

petersuber

Date tagged:

07/31/2012, 13:53

Date published:

04/17/2011, 11:28