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Qubit open information management toolkit

Qubit is an open-source software toolkit that will allow institutions such as archives, libraries, museums, and art galleries to manage and host web-based collections of information resources. Qubit supports multi-lingual and multi-repository collections.

The goal is to provide an easy-to-use, flexible toolkit that complies with open standards (e.g. Dublin Core, ICA-ISAD, MODS, EAD, METS) and is developed using an open architecture that takes advantage of emerging web-based tools and practices.

ICA-AtoM archival description software

ICA-AtoM is web-based archival description software that is based on International Council on Archives (ICA) standards. 'AtoM' is an acronymn for 'Access to Memory'.

ICA-AtoM is free, open-source software. It is multi-lingual and supports multi-repository collections.

VuFind

VuFind is a library resource portal designed and developed for libraries by libraries. The goal of VuFind is to enable your users to search and browse through all of your library's resources by replacing the traditional OPAC to include:

* Catalog Records
* Locally Cached Journals
* Digital Library Items
* Institutional Repository
* Institutional Bibliography
* Other Library Collections and Resources

VuFind is completely modular so you can implement just the basic system, or all of the components. And since it's open source, you can modify the modules to best fit your need or you can add new modules to extend your resource offerings.

Blacklight Project

Blacklight is an open source OPAC (online public access catalog). That means libraries (or anyone else) can use it to allow people to search and browse their collections online. Blacklight uses Solr to index and search, and it has a highly configurable Ruby on Rails front-end. Currently, Blacklight can index, search, and provide faceted browsing for MaRC records and several kinds of XML documents, including TEI, EAD, and GDMS. Blacklight was developed at the University of Virginia Library and is made public under an Apache 2.0 license.

Biblioteca Virtual del Patrimonio Bibliográfico (España)

La Biblioteca Virtual del Patrimonio Bibliográfico es un proyecto cooperativo del Ministerio de Cultura y las Comunidades Autónomas cuyo objetivo es la difusión mediante facsímiles digitales de colecciones de manuscritos y libros impresos antiguos que forman parte del Patrimonio Histórico Español.

Esta iniciativa permitirá consultar sin restricciones fondos que, por sus características, resultan difícilmente accesibles. Incluye 578.000 páginas de más de 2000 títulos conservados en las Bibliotecas Públicas del Estado. Se ha iniciado la participación, mediante la firma de convenios, de otras instituciones que conservan fondos patrimoniales.

Oaister

OAIster is a union catalog of digital resources. We provide access to these digital resources by "harvesting" their descriptive metadata (records) using OAI-PMH (the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting).

Directorio y recolector de recursos digitales del Ministerio de Cultura de España

Con estas dos aplicaciones el Ministerio de Cultura y las Comunidades Autónomas ponen a disposición de los ciudadanos dos conjuntos de información. Por un lado, información básica sobre los proyectos e iniciativas de digitalización existentes en España. Por otro, los documentos digitalizados, reunidos a partir de esas bases de datos, a los que se puede acceder de forma conjunta, utilizando técnicas de recolección de metadatos.