| Abstract: | The Digital Collection and Archives (DCA) and Academic Technology (AT)
department at Tufts University has developed a digital library
architecture
built around Fedora. The primary goal of this project is to provide
for
long-term management and integration of both new and legacy digital
collections
at Tufts University while leveraging the extensive toolsets developed
by
individual digital library projects at the university.
This presentation describes the architecture of the Tufts Digital
Library (TDL)
and the services that we have built to allow assimilation and
interoperability
of existing Tufts digital libraries while allowing new creators of
digital
materials to add their content and write new applications for using and
managing
the material. Also presented is a discussion of the functionality and
implementation details of the individual components of TDL and our
design
decisions and experiences with building a production level system
around Fedora.
Both the TDL and the Visual Understanding Environment will be
presented to
demonstrate how different applications interact with our architecture.
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