Current Initiatives
See github for detailed information on current projects.
- Blacklight/Hydra
Develop a single platform that serves both as a general-purpose library discovery tool and as a studio-like interface to Brown Digital Repository collections and self-service deposit. This platform will combine many of the successful elements of both the current VuFind system and the BDR studio. - Drupal
Migrate the Library website to Drupal. - VIVO (Researchers@Brown)
VIVO repository
VIVO data management repository
Open source, semantic web platform for faculty and researcher profiles. Local development of a user-friendly profile manager and publication harvester. - ORCID
Create ORCID identifiers for Brown faculty. Integrate ORCID with VIVO, LDAP, and other applications.
Ongoing Initiatives
- Digital Bookplates
- easyBorrow and easyArticle
A single interface for requesting books or locating articles - Electronic Dissertations
The ETD system is jointly sponsored by the Graduate School and the University Library. The system was designed to collect and archive the dissertations of PhD candidates wishing to submit an electronic (instead of paper) version of their final dissertation as a text-based PDF file. The service will be extended to master’s theses and other formats in the near future. The Library’s contribution includes a candidate submission interface and a workflow tracking system for the Graduate School. - Locate This
“Locate This” is a tool for a library catalog that determines an item’s stack location and availability. Specific location information appears dynamically as visual floor maps, and text on result screens. This information can also be texted to a mobile device. If an item is not on the shelf, a click on the floor map automatically places a request for the item to be borrowed from another library. - New Titles
This service, which is updated daily, allows users to browse or search titles cataloged during the previous six months. Users can subscribe to an RSS feed for any browse or combination of search terms. Browsing and search results are filtered by discipline, format, library location, language, topic, subject, name, genre, and geographical place. Disciplines were selected by the Scholarly Resources department and are keyed off call numbers. The subject browse is by main LC subject; the topic browse is by LC subdivison. Behind the scenes and looking to the future, the New Titles service uses Resource Description Framework (RDFa) tagging to expose this content as semantically rich linked data. This service uses the kochief discovery interface. - Course Reserves
Past Initiatives
- FreeCite
FreeCite is an open-source application that parses document citations into fielded data. You can use it as a web application or a service. You can also download the source and run FreeCite on your own server. FreeCite is distributed under the MIT license. See Ross Singer’s improvements at https://github.com/rsinger/free_cite
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