DLIT Projects

DLIT Publicity for Completed and Ongoing Projects

DLIT

ongoing

How do we increase awareness of our initiatives both for getting feedback and also to promote our services?  Summer 08 - working with Lib Comm. for Olin Lobby flatscreen materials

Oya and Fiona

DLIT Infrastructure

DLIT

postponed

Assess technologies and systems used in DLIT projects and develop a proposal for improving the current infrastructure - pending for a plan/strategy

DLIT Managers

Digital Preservation Program

DLIT

Sept 2008

2008 Preservation plan assessment

Oya, Bill Kehoe, Adam Smith, George Kozak, Marty Kurth, David Ruddy

Cornell Teaching and Learning Consortium

DLIT

completed

Complete and promote CTLC website working with Joan Getman.  Ownership to be transferred to new Cornell - Director, Center for Teaching Exellence

Oya  

Desktop Services

Compiled at http://confluence.cornell.edu/display/dlitmgr/Desktop+Services+Projects

Oliver

BookSurge

DMG

ongoing

delivery of ~6K titles from 11 Digital Collections for Print on Demand via Amazon. Generating reveues as of Dec 2007. See titles on Amazon: http://tinyurl.com/yqy8fy

Fiona

LSDI Digitization

DMG-Web

postponed

Develop a QC strategy for images and collaborate on ingest module

Danielle

LSDI Ingest and Repository

DMG-Web

TBD

Develop a plan for the ingest and management of digitized content

Bill Kehoe, Adam Smith

Visual Resources Working Group

DMG

ongoing

Set priorities for the 2008 program of VRWG

Danielle, Marty

Digital Collections Delivery Platforms (DCDP)

DMG

ongoing

program of forum events: February - Registry, June - LSDI,
http://dcdp.library.cornell.edu/

Oya, Fiona

Luna 6.0 Upgrade

DMG-Systems

Fall 2008

Upgrade Luna to new version 6.0

Mira, Rick, Surinder, Danielle 

RMC Exhibits

DMG

ongoing

Wine Exhibition - June 09 - January 09
Upcoming:

Rhea

DLXS upgrade

DMG-Web

ongoing

upgrade DLXS version 10 collections  to version 13 - http://dlxs.library.cornell.edu
completed as of June 08 - Historical Math, NY State, Historical Monographs, International Womens Periodicals, Witchraft Collection, Ruffner Thesis, Cornell Biography, KMODDL e-books

To be upgraded - Samuel May Collection, Regmi Journals, SEA Visions, MOA

George

EAD2002 upgrade

DMG-Web

Fall 2008 COMPLETE

upgrade RMC Finding Aids to EAD2002 and the incorporate to DLXS v.13

George, Elaine Westbrooks, Eli Brown

Move pre-DPubS to DLXS

DMG-Web

Summer 2008 COMPLETE

move all Collections using pre-DPubS to DLXS

George

DSpace upgrade   (phase 1)            

DMG -Web

January 2007
COMPLETE

Upgrade DSpace from version 1.2.2 to 1.3.2.  Add module to display message when trying to view restricted theses and dissertations. http://dspace.library.cornell.edu

George

Add Tech Reports to DSpace

DMG - Web

May 2007 COMPLETE

Add CUL Technical Reports to DSpace

George

Upgrade IFUP and Bethe

DMG-Web

May 2007 COMPLETE

Upgrade ifup.cit.cornell.edu and bethe.cornell.edu which are hosted on the dspace server http://ifup.cit.cornell.edu http://bethe.cornell.edu

George

DSpace - Print on Demand

DMG - Web

Summer 2007 (awaiting CBS)

Make changes to Internet-First University Press to handle Print-on-Demand with Campus Store

George

DSpace upgrade   (phase 2)

DMG-Web

Summer 2007 COMPLETE

upgrade DSpace from version 1.3.2 to 1.4.2. 

George

DSpace upgrade   (phase 3)

DMG-Web

Fall 2008 COMPLETE

Moved DSpace to new Server running Apache 2 and Tomcat 5 using mod_jk

George

DSpace User Interface (phase 1)

DMG-Web

Summer 2007 COMPLETE

upgrade Dspace to be eCommons@Cornell

George, Melissa

DSpace User Interface (phase 2)

DMG - Web

Fall 2007 (Postponed)

Add MANAKIN to upgrade DSpace User Interface

George

Add digitalcommons

DMG-Web

Summer 2007 COMPLETE

Add the content of ILR digitalcommons to eCommons

George

MathArc

DMG - Web

February 2007

http://www.library.cornell.edu/dlit/MathArc/web/index.html

Bill Kehoe, Adam Smith

Archiving arXiv and Euclid

DMG - Web

end of 2007

Develop an archival plan and implement

Bill Kehoe, Adam Smith

Vet School Image Library

DMG-Web

Summer 2008 COMPLETE

Create a Digital Library to handle the Vet School's Images

Adam Smith

Cornell Daily Sun

DMG

COMPLETE

Vol. 1-40 contents to http://cdsun.library.cornell.edu/

Fiona, Matt

Lab of Ornithology

DMG

COMPLETE

Creating a Luna collection

Rhea Garen

KVRF

DMG

Ongoing

Create a Luna collection for the Knight Visual Resources Facility, regulary scheduled upload workflow continues

Mira, Surinder/Rick

Alumni & Friends Access

DMG

Summer 2008

Streamline AFA site and transition to reside within Library Communications

Fiona, Jennifer Sawyer

Digital Collections Registry

DMG-Web

COMPLETE

http://rdc.library.cornell.edu.  Metadata Services

Gale, Matt

DMG Image repository

DMG-Digi

Dec 2008

Create a preservation repository for internally generated digital assets.

Bill, Danielle 

GloPAD

DMG - Web

ongoing

http://www.glopad.org/pi/en/

Jim Reidy

EPE

DMG - Web

ongoing

Entrepreneurship at Cornell Portal (similar to VIVO)
http://entrepreneurship.cornell.edu/

Jim, Melissa

Commonspot

DMG - Web

May 2007

Review work flow, division of tasks, training needs, and back-up roles http://commonspot.library.cornell.edu/

Oya Rieger & George Kozak 

Commonspot implementations

DMG - Web

Spring 2007

Vet StaffWeb, LTS, ASTech http://commonspot.library.cornell.edu/cs/sites.cfm

Jim, Melissa

KMODDL

DMG - Web  

ongoing

http://kmoddl.library.cornell.edu

Matt

Faculty Grant - Bathrick

DMG - Web

Complete

Phase One complete June 2007;  Annotations & Themes - ?
http://muller-kluge.library.cornell.edu/en/

Danielle

Faculty Grant - Barnaba

DMG - Web

Entering Phase II-

Complete the last phase of the project and demo it to faculty sponsors
http://aerial-ny.library.cornell.edu

Jim, Danielle, Mira

Faculty Grant - Murray

DMG  

Entering Phase II

Finish final load into D-Space
http://goldsen.library.cornell.edu/rockefeller/

Danielle

Fig MacDougall Grant

DMG

Summer 2008

Scanning, processing and upload of additional 1500 slides into Luna
http://beyondthetaj.library.cornell.edu/

Danielle, Mira

Facuty Grant -Allen

DMG -Web

Summer 2008

Digitized materials to DLXS 12
Completion of portal in CommonSpot

George, Fiona
Melissa, Fiona

Faculty Grant - Case 

DMG 

Fall 2008

Scanning, processing and delivery via DLXS 12 of Polish Soliditary materials

Fiona

Faculty Grant - Owen

DMG 

COMPLETE

cuineiform tablet digitzation complete,
http://cdli.ucla.edu/collections/cornell/cornell_library.html

Oya

Huntington Free Library Digitization

DMG

Spring 2009

Digitize as many HFL volumes possible within budget constraints; load onto DLXS

Danielle, Shakhya, Bronwyn, George

Bolivian Pamphlet Digitization

DMG

Fall 2008

Digitize 40000 pages of Bolivian pamphlet material to be loaded into DLXS.

Danielle, Shakhya, Bronwyn, George

Vicos Digitization: Goldman Fund

DMG

Fall 2008

Digitize Vicos content for upload into Luna Insight and E-Commons

Jessica, Danielle, Mira

Sphinx Digitization

DMG

Summer 2008
COMPLETE

Digitize and deliver 2000 pages back issues of Alpha Phi Alpha newsletter for fraternity

Bronwyn, Shakhya, Danielle, Fiona

NYSA Digitization Project

DMG

Spring 2009

Digitize large number of images for NYSA.

Rhea, Danielle 

Kath March Digitization

DMG

Spring 2008
COMPLETE

Digitize Nepalese land documents to be loaded into E-Commons. 

Danielle, Jessica

Nuremberg

DMG

Spring 2008
COMPLETE

Digitize 5000 pages of Nuremberg transcript documents for Law Library

Fiona, Bronwyn

CMIP - Cornell Modern Indonesia Project

DMG

Summer 2008

Digitize 10,00 pages (75 monographs) for DLXS and POD

Fiona, Bronwyn

New Submission Module

SCT-arXiv

Early 2009

Develop new submission module to address a number of current issues and to make the process easier for users. Will also facilitate integration of automatic metadata extraction to pre-fill submitter metadata form.

Simeon, Gerda

Entrez Style API

SCT-arXiv

Coordinate with InfoSci. End 2008

Support API for other services to interact with arXiv in real time without the need for data harvesting. Initial version running since Jan 2008. Coordinating with InfoSci effort to add similarity engine.

Simeon, InfoSci

Support Datasets

SCT-arXiv

Spring 2009

Add limited support for the upload and access of modest size datasets associated with paper. Some foundational work done, need to coordinates with new submission module and complete either with or soon after.

Simeon, Gerda

Intergrate with CUL Preservation Efforts

SCT-arXiv

unknown schedule

Coordinate with Bill Kehoe / Adam Smith on ensuring appropriate ingest of arXiv data as part of the normal workflow

Simeon

Pending Queue

SCT-arXiv

Early 2009

Revise workflow around submission and moderation to support more flexible "holding" of new submissions until approved for publication. This project now rolled in with development of new submission module.

Simeon, Gerda

New Announcement System

SCT-arXiv

Summer 2009

Create new announcement module for daily announcements. Will have subscriptions tied to use accounts as opposed to separate email registration, and more flexible alerting.

Simeon, Gerda

Virtualize Mirror Instances

SCT-arXiv

Spring 2009

Move all mirror installations to use virtualized server instances to simplify local configuration requirements and software updates.

Simeon, Don

arXiv Budget

SCT-arXiv

done for FY08

Systematically document arXiv-related expenses and identify resource needs

Oya, Simeon

11

DPubS 2.3

SCT - ept

early Fall 2008

Preparing DPubS 2.3 for release in early Fall 2008. Consolidation of all databases to MySQL; major improvements to Subscription, Registry, and Admin Service; new release of Editorial Service for final beta testing.

David R.

Euclid upgraded to DPubS 2.3

SCT - ept

early Fall 2008 

An upgrade that will allow for greater remote management of Euclid--needed for Duke UP to take over more operational duties.

David R.

CHMM Data conversion

SCT - ept

early 2009

Convert all 571 books in the Cornell Historical Math Monograph collection (originally digitized in 1994) to improved format and include in Euclid.

David R.

Support for CIP publications

SCT - ept

ongoing 

Preparing and delivering miscellaneous publications for CIP. Projected projects include: Signale (German Studies monographs); Islandica monograph(s; Turner Festschrift; SCOPE Biofuels conference.

David R.

Euclid V 2.0 upgrade

SCT - ept

Spring 2007 COMPLETED

conversion of existing Euclid content to upgrade to DPubS v 2.0 functionality

David R.

Euclid - JSTOR

SCT - ept

January 2007
data conversion complete; content will be uploaded to Euclid v. 2  by end April 2007 COMPLETED

conversion of JSTOR to Euclid metadata for backfile of 7 journal titles, upload PDFs for IMS journals, link to JSTOR pages for ASL journals  
 
ASL - Association for Symbolic Logic -- 2 journal titles
IMS - Institute of Mathematical Sciences -- 5 journal titles

David R. /Michael Wakoff

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Euclid - backfile conversion projects

SCT - ept

ongoing in 2007
All COMPLETED 

BAMS (Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society) 1891 -- 1991; ~80,000 pages  [target completion 4/20 for all but ref. linking]
TMJ (Tohoku Mathematical Journal) Vols. 1 (1949-1950) -- 53 (2001); ~30,000 pages; ~2,400 articles

 [target completion: end of April 2007]

David R. /Michael Wakoff

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Euclid - new titles

SCT - ept

ongoing in 2007
All COMPLETED

Tokyo Journal of Mathematics

[COMPLETED]

David R./Michael Wakoff

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Other - new titles

SCT - ept

ongoing in 2007
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MAIK back issues of physics journals: 15 titles; 124 vols.; ~ 1,242 issues

[COMPLETED]

David R./Michael Wakoff

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LSDI - Voyager data reports

DLDS

thru 2008

reports from Voyager re which books to pull

Lydia

Voyager - Annex move

DLDS

thru 2009

reports from Voyager

Lydia

Voyager - Centralized billing

DLDS

2007?

Lydia

Voyager - send fine data to CU Collections

DLDS

summer 2007

send overdue fine info for Collections action

Lydia

Voyager - serial barcoding reports

DLDS

summer 2007

Lydia

Voyager - reports as needed

DLDS

ongoing

Lydia

 Luna - WebFeat compatibility testing & resolution

 DLDS

 fall 2008

 load testing (Surinder & Rick) ; static page surrogates to Google (Rick)

 Rick ; Surinder

Luna - 6.0 beta testing

DLDS

 2008

includes procurement  & config of test server

Surinder

Voyager 6.5 upgrade

DLDS

May 2008
completed 

Includes test system upgrade in March 2008, prod in May 2008

Surinder

Sun Center of Excellence renewal

DLDS

spring 2007

Marty ; Oya

LSDI - Storage system implementation

DLDS

summer 2007

Marty ; Bill ; Surinder ; George ; Rick

Unified Request Queue (patron info system for Voyager, Borrow Direct, ILL)

DLDS

July - December 2008

Part of Web Vision implementation

Rick and Matt C.

OAI record sets for America History Online

DLDS

July 2008

MODS records via OAI static server

Pete

OAI service integrated into DLIT Registry

DLDS

2008

OAI service for all our collections

Pete

AJAX interface for logs system

DLDS

Summer/fall 2008

Scalable, responsive AJAX interface for logs system

Matt C.

Mycontents migration to Amazon cloud

DLDS

2008

Move Mycontents linux system to Amazon cloud

Matt C. and Rick

WorldCat Local implementation

DLDS

2008

Project leader for WorldCat Local implementation

Adam

Data Mart design and development, in CIT hosted Oracle database

DLDS

ongoing

creating log reporting system for all of our DLIT hosted digital collections, the PURL resolver, and the checkip licensed resources

Pete ; Adam (with some light  consulting help from Rick and Matt)

LTS projects

DLDS

onging

some 20 hours / week is devoted to supporting LTS batch processing needs. See: http://lts.library.cornell.edu/lts/pi/dpt/all.cfm

Pete

CU Ithaca / Weill Transparency (Shib/ezproxy)

DLDS

April - June 2007
completed

what are the issues surrounding the use of Shibboleth in libraries, in particular how does it interact with ezproxy?

Adam and Pete

Euclid prcess automation

DLDS

ongoing
completed

custom batch processing for BAMS, PJA, HMU, TMJ

Matt C.

BatchCat/Jena/Database

DLDS

onging
completed

backlog of custom batch processing jobs for LTS

Matt C.

e-NERF workflow tool

DLDS

through June 2007
completed

create tool moving NERF form from paper to electronic

Matt C.

CUL Web Vision Team

DLDS

through July 2007
completed

member of team developing report to guide CU Web development

Adam

PSEC Usability and Assessment / ReDS usability testing for Webfeat Find it!

DLDS

ongoing

designing and executing usability testing of CU online services

Adam

CU Ithaca / Weill Transparency

DLDS

through June 2007
completed

member of working group examining the various issues and possible solutions to improve transparency between campuses

Adam

OpenURL quality project

DLDS

ongoing - included in 2008 Mellon funded planning

effort to develop quality metrics for the thousands of OpenURLs our patrons click on every week

Adam

Get it! Team

DLDS

ongoing

member of team tasked with improving delivery services

Adam and Matt

Statistics repositories support

DLDS

ongoing

not everything we license is accessed by way of our discovery systems.  there is a need to support and manage COUNTER reports from vendors in our systems such as ERM, ISI Journal use Reports, and ScholarlyStats

Adam

HFJ (Luna collection)

DLDS

onging

Correcting various problems and working on the Interface to TMS

Rick and Surinder

Registry

DLDS

Continue Maintenance

Interface with ockham project

Rick

Lab of O (Luna)

DLDS

Onging

Reload Data

Rick

KVRF

DLDS

Summer 2007

There are about 1000 images that did not associate with metadata properly. Figure it out why?

Rick

Mycontents

DLDS

Summer 2007

Fix 'bugs

Rick

MySQL

DLDS

ongoing

As needed

Rick

RSRS

DLDS

ongoing

As needed

Rick

CommonSpot

DLDS

Ongoing

Creating, Dubugging, Suppoting

Rick/Surinder

KVRF

DLDS

Summer2007

Figure out how to batch load data.

Rick

HFJ/KVRF

DLDS

Summer 2007

Figure it out how to batch index collections

Rick

Luna LoadTest/Webfeat

DLDS

2008

Testing load of Luna to correct problems with Webfeat

Rick/Surinder

Luna collection

DLDS

Fall 2007

Make harvestable web pages.

Rick

Working on many maintenance contracts

DLDS

Spring 2007
Completed

Serverware hardware mainatence contract, CIT service contracts

Surinder/Marty

Hardware/software Budget

DLDS

Spring 2007
Completed

Surinder/Marty

Hardware (Servers)purchase and consulting with DLIT Staff

DLDS

Onging

As needed bases

Surinder

Oracle Database support

DLDS

Ongoing

this includes maintenance to make sure Oracle database runs smotth on Voyager, Commonspot, Luna and ERMS.

Surinder

Luna Beta testing for 6.0

DLDS

Fall 2008

We will test luna 6.0 software as beta on Oracle 9, then convert to Oracle 10 and test in 10

Surinder/Rick

SAN moves for many systems

DLDS

2007/2008
Completed

We still need to move ERMS, LUNA, COMMONSPOT AND VOYAGER system to SAN storage. I will be working with CIT's. Since these are all Oracle database system, will need to take special care for this.

Surinder

Luna collections work

 DLDS

 Ongoing

 This work continues as the new collections requests come and existing collections maintenance.

 Surinder

On Call for Mission Critical systems

DLDS

Ongoing

24/7 on call system is provided to cover mission ciritical systems

Lydia/Peter/Rick/Surinder

Making sure the Backups on all mission critical systems and consulting as needed

DLDS

Ongoing

Making sure databases backups on Voyager, Annex, Luna, CommonSpot, ERMS are done properly and test the restores from the backups

Surinder

End of Year Accounting Roll Over

DLDS

June 2007
Completed

Voyager Accounting end of year Roll Over

Lydia/Surinder

FPC (Accounting Roll Over)

DLDS

June 30,2008

Voyager Accounting end of year roll Over

Surinder

Review software on DLIT Servers

DLIT/CIT

2008

Flag software instances for upgrade, replacement, or retirement due to security concerns.

Surinder, George, Javier Streb(CIT)

Recommend applications for desktop access to DLIT servers.

DLIT

2008

Document recommended applications on DLIT wiki and shae recommendations with affrected CUL desktop staff

Surinder, George, Amy

Document Systems,servies and scripts on DLIT servers

DLIT

June 2009

Establish review schedule for DLIT documentation; and make documentation available to CUL emergency planning site.

Mary Beth, Surinder, George

Establish DLIT guidelines for matching systems and services

DLIT

August 2008

To be deployed with DLIT servers on which to deploy them and incorporate sedurity, load, support expectations, etc. into guidlines

Marty, Surinder, Rick, George