= Text Collection
= Image Collection
= Audio Collection
= Video Collection
IU
Initiatives
Digital Audio Archives Project (DAAP)
Using the performance archive of
the Indiana University Cook Music Library as a test bed, the goal of DAAP is to reduce the cost of building a digital audio library. The project will design and create an effective and economical workflow management system for digitizing analog audio tapes and building a web-accessible digital audio library. This project is funded by an IMLS National Leadership
Grant as a partnership with Johns Hopkins University.
Digital Libraries Education Program
Indiana University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign received funds from the Institute of Museum and Library
Science (IMLS) to create the first research-based, comprehensive master's-level and post-MLS degrees focusing on digital libraries.
EVIA Digital Archive
The EVIA Digital Archive Project is a collaborative effort to establish a repository of ethnographic video recordings and an infrastructure of tools and systems supporting scholars in the ethnographic disciplines. With a special focus on the fields of ethnomusicology, folklore, anthropology, and dance ethnology, Project developers have created a set of tools and systems for use by scholars and instructors as well as librarians and archivists. The primary mission of the EVIA Project is to preserve ethnographic field video created by scholars as part of their research. The secondary mission is to make those materials available in conjunction with rich, descriptive annotations, creating a unique resource for scholars, instructors, and students. Project staff and contributors have created a support system and a suite of software tools for video annotation, online collection searching, controlled vocabulary and thesaurus maintenance, peer review, and technical metadata collection.
Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities
The Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities links a network of disciplinary experts and highly technical faculty and support staff who work in interdisciplinary teams on collection-building, tool-building, and the development of appropriate methods for study and analysis of collections. The expertise of the faculty from the School of Informatics and Computer Science, School of Library and Information Science and highly qualified professional staff at the Digital Library Program and University Information Technology Services work together with the disciplinary expertise of the arts and humanities faculty to redefine research and scholarship in the arts and humanities on the IU Bloomington campus.
IU Digital Library Technical Infrastructure
The Digital Library Program is in the midst of a two-year project to update its software and hardware infrastructure supporting digital collection storage, preservation, and access. With funding from University Information Technology Services (UITS), the DLP is implementing a central digital repository using Fedora software and developing and implementing web tools for cataloging, searching, browsing, and using digital images, text, and other types of media.
METS Navigator
METS Navigator is a METS-based (Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard) system developed by the Indiana University Digital Library Program for displaying and navigating sets of page images or other multi-part digital objects.
Sakaibrary: Integrating Licensed
Library Resources with Sakai
Indiana University and the University of Michigan are creating software that will enable faculty and students to more easily use
online journals and databases within their courses. Tools developed as a result of this grant will link full-text library resources to the Sakai
collaboration and learning software environment.
Sound Directions
Sound directions aims to develop best practices and test emerging standards for archival audio
preservation and storage in the digital domain in order to preserve critically endangered, highly valuable, unique field
recordings of extraordinary national interest.
Variations2 Digital Music Library
The Variations2 research project focused on establishing a digital music library test bed system containing music in a variety of formats, and supported research and development in the areas of system architecture, metadata, network services, music pedagogy, usability, human-computer interaction, and intellectual property rights.
Variations3 Digital Music Library
Variations3 allows Indiana University to extend its digital music library to college teachers and students across the country. At the
completion of the project, institutions nationwide will be able to introduce, expand or upgrade their current online music
offerings in ways that provide new benefits for their students.
Variations/FRBR
Variations/FRBR: Variations as a Testbed for the FRBR Conceptual Model
The Variations/FRBR development project will build on Indiana
University's expertise in digital music libraries and the well-known
Variations digital music library system, and provide a concrete
testbed for the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records
(FRBR) conceptual model. Our project is focused on testing FRBR
in a real-world environment, and on providing data, code, and system
design specifications that can be re-used by others interested
in FRBR.
Xubmit
The XML Submission Tool (Xubmit) manages the production and workflow of collections described using XML markup languages. Implemented using open-source Java software and XML technologies, it allows document creators to submit documents to collection specific rule-based content review, to review descriptive metadata, and to preview HTML delivery.
External Initiatives with DLP
Participation
Digital Library Federation/National Science Digital
Library Best Practices for OAI Data Provider Implementations and Shareable Metadata
The Best Practices for OAI Data Provider Implementations and Shareable
Metadata aims to document various best practices for the use of the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting. The
best practices are designed to
provide data and service providers with the information needed to create resources that are consistent across repositories and thereby support the user in
finding the variety of resources available and to aid in the implementation of OAI data provider services.
DLF Aquifer
DLF Aquifer is a project of the Digital Library Federation to better integrate access to digital library resources from across multiple institutions. Beginning with a well-bounded collection of digital content in the area of American culture and life, DLF Aquifer is creating a test bed of services to support selecting, collecting and providing access to quality digital content within a variety of local technical environments.
Metadata for You & Me: A Training Program for Shareable Metadata
Metadata for You & Me is a training program that will address
the needs of library, museum and cultural heritage professionals in the creation,
development and use of interoperable or shareable descriptive metadata. The
content of the training program will be based on the Best
Practices for Shareable Metadata an initiative of the Digital
Library Federation nand the National Science
Digital Library to establish guidelines for metadata that can be easily
understood , processed and used outside of its local environment.
