Digital Crossings: Transcending Borders, Creating Enduring Online Resources FEDORA & ASU KnowledgeNet Presenters: Mimmo Bonanni & Phil Konomos FEDORA & ASU KnowledgeNet 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

KnowledgeNetKnowledgeNet Start Page: GUI/application of FEDORA

2,000 records from the Anthropology Museum's Ethnography collection

Image can be exported; Record includes VRA (Visual Resources Association...) metadata

Browse ASU

ASU EPrint Archive

Browse EPrint Archives

David Ralph Abbott Personal Archive [Collection]

Personal Archive

Sorted by date, first article, “Hohokam exchange and early classic period...”

Export Functionality: Refworks, EndNote, RIS, BibTex, Personal Archive, del.icio.us (social bookmarking)

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 Knowledge Relationships Browser

A = has Author; R = is Member of Collection; T = has Text Link

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 Future: Guest Access & Contribution

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 ( )Arizona Jewish Historical Society

Access to floating player, subscribing to Podcast options...

Links to external digital objects... PodcastsPodcasts - Library Channel or iTunes University ASU School of Music Performances Archival Collections

Dr. Christine Marin Podcast: Chicano Research Collection

Current Digital Projects Mediterranean Landscape Dynamics (Geospatial: Anthropology, Geography) Architecture Image slidesArchitecture Image slides (Images: Architecture) Ralph CameronRalph 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

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