1. Practical Digital Library Tools and Techniques Roy Tennant The Library, University of California, Berkeley

2. “Brown Paper Bag” Projects Simple Inexpensive (or free) Flexible Open (not proprietary)

3. Example: mSQL mSQL, a free SQL package: http://www.hughes.com.au/ INFOMINE, UC Riverside: http://lib-www.ucr.edu/

4. Example: Sprite Sprite, a Perl module, see: http://www.perl.com/CPAN-local/modules/by-module/Sprite/ Good for small (no more than a couple thousand records) flat-file databases African American Theses & Dissertations, UCB: http://sunsite.Berkeley.EDU/Bibliographies/bibdb.html

5. Sprite Architecture A delimited file, one line per record: author::title::description::whatever… author::title::description::whatever… The Sprite Perl module A Perl program for the user interface

6. Example: Harvest Harvest, a free Web spider: http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/harvest/ Index of library-related electronic journals, Index Morganagus: http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/IndexMorganagus/

7. Example: SWISH-E & Perl Librarians’ Index to the Internet http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/InternetIndex/ KidsClick! http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/KidsClick!/ Digital Image Catalog http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/ImageCatalog/ Reference Resources http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/searchref.pl

8. The Pieces SWISH-Enhanced http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/SWISH-E/ In-house Perl programs see http://www.perl.com/ for more information on Perl Records stored in individual files using Dublin Core fields and HTML META tags see http://purl.org/metadata/dublin_core

9. Architecture: The Record <META NAME="DC.description" CONTENT="A companion to the PBS television series. Includes online games, stories, print & play activities, and a behind the scenes look at how the show is made."> <META NAME="RCLS.keywords" CONTENT="Sesame Street Central A companion to the PBS television series. Includes online games, stories, print & play activities, and behind the scenes look at how the show is made. TV networks and shows”>

10. _____ Architecture: In-House Programs Library of subroutines User Interface Maintenance Programs SWISH-E Index records Indiv. records Perl

11. The Bottom Line Avoid needless complexity KISS: Keep It Simple, Stupid! Free software can be as good as (or better than) commercial software Consider migration (how will you get out?) Consider scale (will it handle growth?) Good ideas and the skill to make them real are the essential ingredients, not money

12. Recruitment Plug The Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE wants a few good people to do interesting things We’ll provide the infrastructure You provide the ideas, time, and energy See http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Admin/librarians.html for more information