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The University Library conducts a broad range of digital projects. It digitizes library collections and archives, researches information retrieval technologies for digital collections, and initiates various digital library research projects. This page serves to highlight the University Library's research projects connected with digital services and development.

• University of Illinois Digital Library Testbed

  A Web-based retrieval system featuring enhanced access and display capabilities for journal articles supplied in SGML format.

• Illinois Open Archives Initiative Metadata Harvesting Project

  Focuses on creating a deep, domain-specific portal to search metadata that describes selected manuscript archives and digitized cultural heritage resources.

• IMLS Digital Collections and Content

  An effort to make the digital content of IMLS National Leadership Grant projects more visible and more usable, by building a registry of the collections and an item-level metadata repository for them.

• Second Generation Digital Mathematics Resources
  (with Innovative Content for Metadata Harvesting and Courseware Development)

  Develops added content and functionality for the websites of two mathematical digital libraries, the MathWorld and Functions.

• University of Illinois OAI Provider & Harvesting Tools on SourceForge

  The Open Source OAI tools developed for the Illinois Open Archives Initiative Metadata Harvesting Project.

• The ARCHON Project

  A web-based tool for archivists and manuscript curators. It automatically publishes archival descriptive information and digital archival objects to a user-friendly website.

For comments on this page contact: Digital Content Creation

Last modified by: Camilla Fulton on 3/4/09