Introduction to Digital Libraries Assignment #4 Old Dominion University Department of Computer Science CS 751/851 Spring 2010 Michael L. Nelson <mln@cs.odu.edu> 05/03/10

Building A Digital Library Using the locally stored 1000+ objects from Assignment #3 as the content, build a digital library Keep your A3 directory / URLs intact; don't remove content to populate your DL (make separate copies if needed) Build your own DL or install and use an existing package

Some Popular DL/Repository Systems Eprints (at least partially installed on your VM; some assembly required) http://www.eprints.org/software/ DSpace http://www.dspace.org/ Greenstone http://www.greenstone.org/ CDS Invenio http://cdsware.cern.ch/invenio/ Fedora (powerful, but may be more involved than you desire) http://www.fedora-commons.org/

Grading Your DL Email to the class email list by 11:59PM May 3 URLs for your DL this URL must remain valid & operational until May 8 Criteria: general searching fielded searching browsing of all objects in collection browsing by categories (subject, authors, year, etc.) permalinks / individually addressable objects machine readable export (OAI-PMH or Atom/RSS) Grading for each of the criteria above: 0 = not functioning or not existent 1 = functioning, but lacking some quality (features, usability, aesthetics, etc.) 2 = exemplary & fully functional

In Class Demo 1 point for in class demo during our regularly scheduled exam time, May 3 Requirements Each student has 6 minutes for demo, lessons learned, etc. DL must be reachable from the class room PC (i.e., no magic laptops)