| Abstract: | The New Jersey Digital Highway (NJDH) is a statewide repository and
collaborative portal among cultural heritage information providers in
New Jersey: libraries, museums, archives, historical societies, public
broadcasting stations, and schools. Among its other functions, NJDH
aims
to establish, a solid digital preservation program, combining rigorous
digitization strategies with sophisticated storage and access
technologies. FEDORA is a critical component of the infrastructure for
NJDH. This presentation will focus on the workflow challenges presented
by the use of FEDORA in a distributed environment and the tools
developed at Rutgers to manage the processes of file upload, generation
of presentation formats, metadata creation and ingestion of digital
objects. Rutgers Libraries are also currently involved in development
of
a toolkit for educators, so that they can take advantage of the rich
resources available to them through the NJDH.
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