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VITAL. Fedora UK User Group Inaugural Meeting 9 May 2006. Jack Bazuzi Managing Director VTLS Europe. About VTLS. Our job is to create visionary solutions for libraries and information centers. VTLS Has Three Core Businesses. Integrated Library Systems

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  1. VITAL Fedora UK User Group Inaugural Meeting 9 May 2006 Jack Bazuzi Managing Director VTLS Europe

  2. About VTLS Our job is to create visionary solutions for libraries and information centers

  3. VTLS Has Three Core Businesses • Integrated Library Systems • Institutional Digital Repositories • RFID

  4. About VTLS • ISO 9000 Registered Company • Over 25 years experience in library automation • Corporate Member of NISO, ALA and IFLA • Member Fedora Advisory Group • Member Fedora Development Group

  5. Corporate Headquarters • Virginia Tech research park • Following VT incubation period • Independent, for-profit, international, successful…

  6. Corporate Offices • Blacksburg, Virginia, USA • Barcelona (EMEA) • New Delhi • Rio de Janeiro • Kuala Lumpur • United Kingdom (Oxford*)

  7. VTLS Information Technology for Advanced Learning

  8. VITAL / Fedora Relationship

  9. Fedora Fedora offers a variety of features that VITAL builds on to provide added value: • Constituent Parts/Datastreams • OAI Metadata Harvesting • XML Submission and Storage • Validation • Versioning/Preservation • Access Control & Authentication • Extensibility…

  10. VITAL’s Added Value • Indexing Capabilities • UIs • Special viewers • Default cataloging templates • Stylesheets • Support, training , documentation…

  11. VITAL’s Added Value - Interfaces 1. Vital Manager • Admin / cataloging client • To import objects into repository • Search • Preview • Modify

  12. VITAL’s Added Value - Interfaces 2. Public Access Portal • Web-based • Sophisticated search techniques • Hierarchical retrieving • Sorting • Viewing • Thumbnails, magnified viewing areas…

  13. VITAL’s Added Value - Interfaces 3. Staff Access Portal • Web-based • Admin tools for content management • Interactive stop / start of server • Create / modify indexes • Define content models for objects

  14. VITAL’s Added Value - Viewers Image Navigator • High resolution viewer • JPEG2000 • MrSID Document Navigator • Multipage objects

  15. VITAL’s Added Value… • SRU/SRW enabled • Exposure to search engines (Google, Yahoo…) • Handles Server (automatic) • Templates for easy cataloging • Default stylesheets (EAD, MARCXML…_) • Submission tool (VALET) • Easy handling of collections

  16. VITAL’s Added Value… • Multilingual UI • UNICODE compliance • Support for dynamic creation/export of content citations (EndNote, text…) • Training • Documentation • Support…

  17. VITAL Components • VITAL Manager • Public VITAL Access Portal • Admin VITAL Access Portal • VALET - Web Self-Submission Tool • VTLS Batch Loader Tool • Handles Server (CNRI) • SRU / SRW Support

  18. Functions of VITAL Manager • Advanced Collection Management Functions • XML/METS/FOXML Metadata Storage, Linking, Retrieval, Import & Export • Dublin Core & other XML File Editing & Indexing • Fedora™ Digital Object Search Tool • Automatic Metadata Creation and Linking

  19. VITAL Repository Management • Supports Fedora™ multiple repositories • Collections can be dispersed across locations • Repositories can contain diverse digital object types • VITAL facilitates easy loading & searching of repositories

  20. XML Metadata Storage • Standards based • XML/METS/FOXML Schema • Dublin Core • EAD • MARC • AMICO XML Format • Additional formats can be added quickly • Metadata may be exported in XML for use in other applications

  21. VITAL Cataloging • Cataloging with XMLSpy Software • Dublin Core, EAD, and MARC templates provided • Other 3rd Party XML editing tools may be used.

  22. VITAL Image Management • Easy import of digital objects and images • Tracked Folders • VITAL Import Tool • Batch Tool • Digital object versioning • Automatically creates metadata - including JHOVE • Full Text Extraction for PDF’s, MSWord, RTF, and HTML files

  23. VITAL Manager Client

  24. VITAL Manager Client The VITAL Manager Client allows for easy navigation and searching of your digital object repository

  25. VITAL Manager Client Datastreams can be edited using linked applications – Metadata datastreams such as Dublin Core are modified by integrated XML editors such as XMLSpy or XMetal

  26. VITAL Access Portal • SRU/SRW – SRW gateway connection for search from ILS or Federated Search • Sophisticated display for Encoded Archival Description (EAD), Text Encoding Initiative (TEI), MODS, MIX, Dublin Core and MARCXML records • Support for special image types, audio and video • Document Navigator Interface • JPEG2000 Image Viewing software • Hi-Res Image Navigator

  27. VITAL Access Portal

  28. VITAL Access Portal

  29. VALET Customizable, web-based UI: • Allow remote users to submit content into a VITAL or FEDORATM digital object repository • Handle submission of any file format • Allows contributors to enter metadata into configurable, form-based templates • Allow for a staged submission process • Review, edit, delete, approve submitted content prior to ingest

  30. VALET Pre-configured templates to allow for capture of relevant metadata for many standard content types including: • Electronic Theses and Dissertations • Journal Articles • Working Papers • Book Chapters • Conference Papers • Images

  31. VALET • Offers pre-configured metadata mappings into MARCXML and Dublin Core formats • Is fully interoperable with VITAL for: • Managing submitted content • Automatic indexing of submitted content • Formatted display of EAD, TEI, MODS, MARCXML • Assigning Handles • Server-side full-text extraction of PDFs and other text files submitted, providing anywhere keyword searches

  32. VALET for ETDs • A subset of VALET that is supplied with VITAL • A complete standalone application • Bundled with FedoraTM Digital Object Repository • Is a free, open-source solution for web self-submission of Electronic Theses & Dissertations. • A ‘best of breed’ solution for web submission of ETDs that builds upon our collaborative experience with: • NDLTD Project at Virginia Tech • ADT Program • ARROW Project

  33. VALET for ETDs (Sample)

  34. Login Screen

  35. Deposit Form

  36. Deposit Form (cont.)

  37. Field Requirements/Validation

  38. Customizable Help Files

  39. Preview

  40. Preview (cont.)

  41. Upload Files

  42. Verify Deposit

  43. ETD Deposit Completed

  44. Reviewer Login

  45. Review Stages

  46. Review Stage 1

  47. View/Modify data

  48. Add Reviewer Note

  49. Approval Confirmation

  50. Review Stage 3

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