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University of South FloridaScholar CommonsSpecial & Digital Collections Faculty and StaffPublicationsSpecial & Digital CollectionsWinter 1-19-2010CORAL: USF Libraries Digital Collections WhitePaperBarbara LewisUniversity of South Florida, bilewis@usf.eduMark I. GreenbergUniversity of South Florida, mark.greenberg@wwu.eduRichard BernardyUniversity of South Florida, rbernard@usf.eduFollow this and additional works at: http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/tlsdcPart of the Library and Information Science CommonsRecommended CitationMark I. Greenberg; Barbara I. Lewis; and Richard R. Bernardy, Jr. 2010. "CORAL: USF Libraries Digital Collections White Paper."University of South Florida.This Task Force Report is brought to you for free and open access by the Special & Digital Collections at Scholar Commons. It has been accepted forinclusion in Special & Digital Collections Faculty and Staff Publications by an authorized administrator of Scholar Commons. For more information,please contact scholarcommons@usf.edu.
esA.ThePast alsinformingdigitalcollectionsbuilding tionbuilding zed ntinuingfrustration lewithDAMSintegration distinction Spacewasinadequateforgrowthandgreaterefficiency ildingledtoincreasingUSFautonomyB.ThePresent stinctcollectionsregardlessofformat cesses,andaccessibility ciencies t,Holocaustandgenocide,anddisastermentalhealth ctsoutsideofFCLAandFloridaSUS(dLOC,MVI)
eatingandsharingvalue- ‐addedITsolutions(Bull- ‐OH- ibrisinclude: Vendorlicensefees–approx. 23,000/yearfor80,000objects ortfromIsrael ��first- ‐linesupport”forDigiTool sareprimarilybugfixes ibrisregardingsoftwaredevelopmentactivities Weakwrittenproductdocumentation blemresolutionselfsufficiency shareexperienceandideas nlegacycode(ex.COBAL) metadata(ex.DigitalEntity) Lackofrobust,standards- erinterfaces bnailsforMSfiles configurationfilesandconversionsofdatarequired Limitedabilitytocreatecustomizedpagestyles ntheimprovementandadvancementofitsDigiToolproduct customization,asperthefollowing: anonlysearchoneorallcollections ed ges2
tothefuture(2- ITExperience Useopensourcesolutions Minimizeoperatingcostandmaintenancerequirements oshareandlearn unity dexpertise LeveragecentralizationofUSFIT Reuseexistinghardwareandsoftwarewherefeasible entB.Access:UserExperience at/media Contextualizeeachcollection’sresearchvalue Providevalue- says,etc. Promoteself- addigitalobjectswithoutlibrarystaffintervention) ovewithinthesamewindow(s) Createauniformuserexperienceregardlessofwebbrowser Minimizebrowserplug- ‐insand/oradd- - ‐sourcesoftwareproducts,includingin- ‐house- nitythatsupportscontextualintegrationofFedora,a3
logyUsedi.Management:ITExperience ensource) rce) Userinterfacedevelopmenttool- ‐- ‐AdobeFlexBuilder3plug- ‐in(educationpriced,proprietary) ry) Collectionadministration–SWORD(SimpleWeb- source)2ii.UserExperience Webinterface–AdobeFlash(.swffiles) Advancedcontentviewerso JAVAServlettechnology(opensource)o DjatokaJPEG2000server(opensource)o AdobeFlash(proprietary,freeware)o IIPImageIIPMooViewer(opensource)o GoogleMapsAPI(freeware)B.CORALStrengths Developedusingopensourceandopenstandardssoftwareo ewYorkPublicLibrary(seehttps://fedora- ‐commons.org/confluence/display/FCCommReg/Fedora Commons Registry)o areandbuilduponitwithadditionalvalue- ‐addedsoftwarecomponentso Vibrantandgrowingusercommunitiesforopen- tosoftwaredevelopmentactivitieso Flashisinstalledon98%ofallbrowsers;30- .flashmagazine.com/news/detail/how many sites use flash/)3 Flash- .com/framework/Shockwave- ‐Flash- ‐Embed) stusersinobtainingandupdatingtheFlashplug- Flashtechnology- acs.ThereforeUSFrejectedbuildingaJAVA- ‐applet- ‐basedinterface.4
Nothird- icationhybrid- ‐- ‐“Mashup”- ‐- ‐concept(seehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mashup operatingsystemadministrationUseofastandards- ‐based,open- ngleLibGuidethat:o Providesaccesstodigitalobjectso lection(s)o lection(s)o llection(s)o GuidesandRightNow)C.Weaknesses Requiresabrowserplug- sslytransferredtoproprietaryoropen- faceswillnotintegratewithUSF’sdesireforaformat- tofJAVAservlet- ternet- ,above).5
plorerbrowser11NoPDFplug- ationofFedora/Flash/LibGuidesD.Opportunities Costsavings:o Noannualmaintenancecontractorper- ‐objectloadedlicensefeeso lservers ips Greaterflexibilityforfuturemigrationtonewplatforms susercommunitieso ySoftwareRegistryandofferitasanopen- ‐sourcesolutiontoFedorauserso CreateCORALusercommunityo ShareDigiTool- ‐to- ‐Fedoramigrationtoolo PublishandpresentCORALinternationallyo ShowcaseCORALtoLibGuideusers ParticipatewithinFlashusercommunity com/Content.aspx?id 5078)13 dinstruction Increasedpatronsatisfactionandcollectionuse mprovecollectiondescriptionandaccess onalityE.Threats :o PartnerwithUSFITtoidentifypersonnelsuccessionplano DocumentITcodingandprocesses tuserswithobtainingandupdatingtheFlashplug- applications(e.g.Bull- ‐OH- edigitalassetsavailableontheiPhone. 6
o rticipateinusercommunity14o articipateinusercommunityo l15o managementsystem(USFLibrary- ‐wideissue)CORALDAMSresidesonnon- ‐Library- ‐ownedserversSolution:o MaintainaLibrary- velopmenttool,USFcouldadoptanopen- ommand- odule.7
University of South Florida Scholar Commons Special & Digital Collections Faculty and Staff Publications Special & Digital Collections Winter 1-19-2010 CORAL: USF Libraries Digital Collections White Paper Barbara Lewis University of South Florida, bilewis@usf.edu Mark I. Greenberg University of South Florida, mark.greenberg@wwu.edu Richard Bernardy
