Dear all,
A simple description from BN, the National Library of Portugal
(according the METS registry schema):
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Description:
The BND - "Biblioteca Nacional Digital" (National Digital Library) is an
initiative with three major fronts: deposit of digital works (BN is the
deposit library in the country), digitization of our traditional
collections (manuscripts, printed works, etc.) and development of our on
digital born works (especially reference works). To manage and preserve
all of this we need a quite large and reliable infrastructures for
management and storage, and all of that at an affordable price. We
intend to assure that through an affordable and easily scalable Linux
based GRID solution for the storage, METS as the structural metadata,
UNIMARC as the main descriptive metadata, and probably FEDORA as the key
component of the management and exploitation framework. So far we have
been using an internal XML based structural metadata schema, and we
learned that METS is really what we were looking for to move to the next
stage.
Dates:
1- Detailed analysis and testing of METS, FEDORA and "GRID technology"
for storage: August 2003
2- Basic prototype of the infrastructure and services: December 2003
3- Advanced prototype of the infrastructure and services: April-May 2004
4- Fully functional solution: August 2004
Step 1 will be performed by our internal team and close partners.
Steps 2 to 4 will be mainly subcontracted outside!!!
Sites:
BND: http://bnd.bn.pt (only in Portuguese...)
Docs:
...not yet...
Tools:
We intend to release all the software to be developed by ourselves as
Open Source
Contacts:
José Borbinha, [log in to unmask]
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Best Regards
José Borbinha
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Prof. José Luis Borbinha <[log in to unmask]>
Biblioteca Nacional (National Library of Portugal)
Direcção de Serviços de Inovação e Desenvolvimento
(Direction of Services for Innovation and Development)
Campo Grande, 83 - 1749-081 Lisboa - PORTUGAL
Tel./Fax: (+351) 217 982 083 / 217 982 123
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