The concept of representation format, or type, permeates all technical areas of digital repositories. Policy and processing decisions regarding object ingest, storage, access, and preservation are frequently conditioned on a per-format basis. In order to achieve necessary operational efficiencies, repositories need to be able to automate these procedures to the fullest extent possible.

JSTOR and the Harvard University Library are collaborating on a project to develop an extensible framework for format validation: JHOVE (pronounced "jove"), the JSTOR/Harvard Object Validation Environment.

A pilot experiment to develop a user interface for accessing digital library resources from within the Sakai

A pilot experiment to develop a user interface for accessing digital library resources from within the Sakai

Groovy, thanks John!  Excellent site on prepping for DSpace planning, architecture, implementation, etc...

Almagest then became the next big item of
discussion. The audience was interested in both its media
presentation capabilities as well as its ability to manage and
display extensive contextual information useful in teaching.
The session ran two hours as several people stayed on to see
a demonstration of Almagest. Features noted in response to
audience

• Multimedia and document support
• Blackboard Building Block plugin
• Immediate presentation Annotation
• Presentation cropping/zooming
• Drag and Drop "lecture" building
• On the fly lecture changes
  -image zooming
  -image ordering
  -database drill-down

Almagest and Almagest Lecture Builder are tools for teaching and learning that can

• manage and store media
  
• create and display digital lectures and presentations
  
• annotate and contextualize data for teaching

The database is the result of more than a decade of development and has been used as a tool for teaching and scholarship at Princeton University for the past nine years.

 

Almagest is a relational data base that can be used to store and organize a wide range of media, and create a network of bi-directional links among objects, people, texts and ideals.

Almagest creates a web-based, permanent archive of data of many types. Because the underlying database is relational, the link structure provides an almost limitless set of complex relationships that catalog, annotate and cross-reference data. The database can be used for research projects and courses.