Tools Used in our Digital Library

Greenstone

Greenstone Digital Library Software, developed by the New Zealand Digital Library Project, is used to provide access to the Chopin Early Editions collection. XSLT processing allows METS objects to be transformed into Greenstone's internal format and allows creation of custom navigation features. The Library is participating in an international initiative to integrate METS into Greenstone natively.

NAND

Nand is a web-based tool, developed in-house, for searching and browsing collections of data. Nand was developed to work with non-relational data which can be created using a wide variety of independent tools (e.g., MS Access, MS Excel, a plain-text editor, XML editors, etc.). Nand underlies several of our retrospectively digitized collections, as well as some of our major web resource guides, such as our Electronic Resources Database.

OAI (Open Archives Initiative)

The Library maintains its own OAI-PMH provider, developed in-house, as part of the CIC-OAI project, through which records for items in many of the collections on these pages are exposed for harvesting by those who wish to aggregate such records to build discovery services for digital collections.

Philologic

PhiloLogic is the primary full-text search, retrieval and analysis tool developed by the ARTFL Project and the Digital Library Development Center (DLDC) at the University of Chicago. PhiloLogic supports a wide variety of TEI-Lite (XML and SGML) encoded documents optionally using the Unicode character specification. PhiloLogic is a modular system, in which a textbase is treated as a set of coordinated or related databases, typically including an object (units of text such as a letter, scene, document, etc.) database, a word forms database, a word concordance index mapped to textual objects, and an object manager mapping text objects to byte offsets in data files. Each of these databases is stored and managed using its own subsystem.

SFX

The Library runs an SFX server from Ex Libris in order to provide customized links among diverse electronic products such as linking journal citation indexes (like MLA Bibliography) to the full text of an article from a publisher's website or to a pre-populated interlibrary loan form. The Library uses data exported from the SFX server in conjunction with Nand to produce a searchable list of Electronic Journals.

Tamino

Tamino XML Server from Software AG is a native XML database for storing, searching and retrieving documents in XML format. It underlies the Library's Archives and Manuscript Finding Aids application.