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Digital Crossings: Transcending Borders, Creating Enduring Online Resources. FEDORA & ASU KnowledgeNet http://www.fedora.info http://www.fedora.info/wiki Presenters: Mimmo Bonanni & Phil Konomos. FEDORA: Digital Object Repository.
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Digital Crossings: Transcending Borders, Creating Enduring Online Resources • FEDORA & ASU KnowledgeNet • http://www.fedora.info • http://www.fedora.info/wiki • Presenters: Mimmo Bonanni & Phil Konomos
FEDORA: Digital Object Repository • FEDORA is flexible extensible digital object repository architecture • Open source repository software • Developed at Cornell University and the University of Virginia Library • Used to manage digital resources owned or licensed by ASU libraries; and act as a platform to archive digital materials from the ASU community
FEDORA: Why is it Valuable? • Gives remote access to otherwise inaccessible materials, or difficult to find items • Houses collections of scholarly import in one location • Reveals relationships amongst objects via metadata that may not normally be readily apparent • Curates objects that might otherwise be lost or remain inaccessible
FEDORA: Behind the Scenes • It is equipped with a powerful digital object model • Includes: persistent ID, datastreams, metadata, remote/local references, disseminators (how object may be represented or displayed) • It provides means for metadata management • It provides a powerful framework for managing relationships between digital objects
FEDORA: Behind the Scenes • Locally managed content or reference remotely • Can reference remote collections outside of ASU Libraries... Mexico, Canada, the world • Web service integration • Can easily integrate with other products no matter what programming language or web development environment • Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH), Open Archives Initiative • It provides means for harvesting metadata of digital objects stored in the repository
FEDORA Applications • ASU application gateway to FEDORA is called KnowledgeNet • It is designed to look to similar to other familiar search engines; such as GOOGLE and YAHOO
FEDORA Applications • Ease of use – • Can search via a simple text box for any type of digital object (music, electronic journal, electronic book, satellite image, photographs) • Upload digital object(s) into the repository
2,000 records from the Anthropology Museum's Ethnography collection
Image can be exported; Record includes VRA (Visual Resources Association...) metadata
Sorted by date, first article, “Hohokam exchange and early classic period...”
Export Functionality: Refworks, EndNote, RIS, BibTex, Personal Archive, del.icio.us (social bookmarking)
Knowledge Relationships Browser • Flash-based Relation Browser tool • A Visual navigation of relationships expressed in FEDORA records • Animation is created consisting of circles (representing entities) and connecting lines (representing relationships) • Searching for an article will show not only the article but also any relationships to the article • These circles can be expanded to show other relationships, so the tool encourages exploration like browsing a book shelf
A = has Author; R = is Member of Collection; T = has Text Link
Future: Guest Access & Contribution • Collaborating or affiliated institutions may sign in (with guest access logon and password) and search and access FEDORA digital repository • Affiliated partners can contribute unique collections to the repository • Clicking on a link will establish a session where hyperlinks are context-aware, e.g. you can see full text if it is available • If there is no ASU login, and no guest access has been established, hyperlinks will then point to OCLC Worldcat link revolver
Configure Preferences for Students, faculty, & staff of Arizona's state universities, and other organizations with research ties to ASU
Audio Search: Oral Histories, podcasts, musical performances, etc.
Transcripts of oral interviews by members of the Arizona Jewish Historical Society (1974-2000)
Access to floating player, subscribing to Podcast options...
Links to external digital objects... • Podcasts - Library Channel or iTunes University • ASU School of Music Performances • Archival Collections
Current Digital Projects • Mediterranean Landscape Dynamics (Geospatial: Anthropology, Geography) • Architecture Image slides (Images: Architecture) • Ralph Cameron (Oral History: Labriola) • Litchfield Oral History (Oral History: ASU West, AZ Humanities Council, Archives)
Implication for the Future • Continue to add unique collections to the repository • Share tremendous research being done at ASU with the broader community through ASU KnowledgeNet • Expand partnership or affiliates, and develop partnerships with the international academic community and educational institutions
Thanks for listening! • Questions? • Contact: • mimmo@asu.edu • konomos@asu.edu