Yesterday, we posted about a massive digitization project recently announced at NYU and an editorial from the Princeton University newspaper focusing on Google digitization and the HathiTrust.
Today, we move to Providence, RI and Brown University.
The Center for Digital Initiatives is preparing to launch the Brown Digital Repository, an online database to allow faculty members to easily and safely store thousands of documents — and share them with their students and colleagues.
The service, which aims to make faculty research and teaching materials more accessible in the present as well as preserve them for posterity, could be operational as soon as next semester, according to Patrick Yott, head of the library’s digital services department and the Center for Digital Initiatives.
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Many digital repositories, such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s, use a program called DSpace, which Yott said is less flexible. The new program, Fedora, improves on older repository software.
“We were waiting for some of the technologies to mature,” Yott said. “We just waited to do it the way we wanted to do it.”
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The repository will allow users to upload faculty papers, research data, electronic dissertations, teaching materials and other files. One feature of the Fedora platform allows files to be updated into newer formats should old ones become obsolete, preserving the documents for generations to come.
Source: The Brown Daily Herald
See Also: Learn More About Fedora (via Wikipedia)
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