De libros y archivos digitales

Dpubs

2009-10-24T19:43:00.002+02:00

DPubS (Digital Publishing System) is an open-source software system designed to enable the organization, presentation, and delivery of scholarly journals, monographs, conference proceedings, and other common and evolving means of academic discourse. DPubS was conceived by Cornell University Library to aid colleges and universities in managing and disseminating the intellectual discoveries and writing of scholars and researchers.

Decapod

2009-10-17T09:54:00.003+02:00

Decapod is a project focused on building a low-cost digitization solution that will allow for rare materials, materials held in collections without large budgets, and other scholarly content to be digitized into a high-quality PDF format. This project will work to incorporate the hardware and software necessary to accomplish this goal.

eXtensible Catalog (XC)

2009-10-17T09:48:00.001+02:00

The eXtensible Catalog (XC) Project is working to design and develop a set of open-source applications that will provide libraries with an alternative way to reveal their collections to library users. XC will provide easy access to all resources (both digital and physical collections) across a variety of databases, metadata schemas and standards, and will enable library content to be revealed through other services that libraries may already be using, such as content management systems and learning management systems. XC will also make library collections more web-accessible by revealing them through web search engines.

Summa

2009-10-17T09:39:00.002+02:00

Summa is a search engine, that simultaneously can access a number of different data and data sources. Summa presents the results for the user in a single search result sorted by relevance. The user can also prioritise the result after a number of different criteria.

Meresco

2009-10-17T09:33:00.003+02:00

MERESCO stands for Metadata based Repository Search Components in Open source and is a complete set of components for search and retrieve functionality. MERESCO is based on open source technology and uses open communication standards such as OAI-PMH and SRU/SRW. While MERESCO is a generic software suite it’s primary use is aimed at the educational environment.

OCRopus

2009-06-13T09:22:00.004+02:00

OCRopus(tm) is a state-of-the-art document analysis and OCR system, featuring pluggable layout analysis, pluggable character recognition, statistical natural language modeling, and multi-lingual capabilities.

http://code.google.com/p/ocropus/

The Book Ripper Project

2009-06-13T08:57:00.003+02:00

Bkrpr is a set of free software and hardware that helps you digitize books. Some of our hardware designs make it easy to photograph all the pages in a book without harming the book. Other designs allow you to remove the binding so the pages can be dropped into a sheet-fed scanner. Whichever method you use, the resulting images can be processed with our software to make user-friendly files in a variety of formats.

http://bkrpr.org

Simile

2008-11-11T19:26:00.003+01:00

Semantic Interoperability of Metadata and Information in unLike Environments, SIMILE, is focused on developing robust, open source tools that empower users to access, manage, visualize and reuse digital assets.

Connotea

2008-11-06T19:27:00.002+01:00

Connotea is a free online reference management service. It allows you to save links to all your favourite articles, references, websites and other online resources with one click. Connotea is also a social bookmarking tool, so you can view other people's collections to discover new, interesting content.

Mekentosj Papers

2008-11-06T19:21:00.002+01:00

Sick of that big pile of paper on your desk? Forgot in which article you read about that interesting experiment? Papers will revolutionize the way you deal with scientific papers. Search for papers using PubMed, directly retrieve and archive PDFs, and read and study them all from within Papers, your personal library of Science.

Mendeley

2008-11-06T19:10:00.003+01:00

Mendeley is free social software for managing and sharing research papers. It is also a Web 2.0 site for discovering research trends and connecting to like-minded academics.

Mendeley Desktop is more than a reference manager:

* Automatic extraction of metadata and cited references from PDFs to create your own personal library database
* Tag, full-text search, share, and annotate your research papers collaboratively
* Back up your research papers to Mendeley Web and access them online

‡biblios

2008-08-19T17:34:00.001+02:00

‡biblios is an open-source, web-based metadata tool for libraries

Qualified Dublin Core Generator

2008-08-01T10:27:00.005+02:00

Worthington Memory

Gladney, Dr. H. M. HMG Consulting (2007) Economics and Engineering for Preserving Digital Content.

2008-07-28T11:44:00.002+02:00

Economics and Engineering for Preserving Digital Content - Upload a Document to Scribd

Qubit open information management toolkit

2008-07-28T11:28:00.001+02:00

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

2008-07-28T11:25:00.003+02:00

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

2008-07-25T21:58:00.002+02:00

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

2008-07-25T21:52:00.003+02:00

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)

2008-07-25T20:23:00.005+02:00

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

2008-07-25T19:13:00.000+02:00

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

2008-07-25T19:05:00.000+02:00

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.

NOTA DE PRENSA - El ministro de Cultura presenta un Plan de digitalización y consulta en red de los archivos nacionales

2008-06-16T23:54:00.001+02:00

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BOE - Ayudas para la creación y transformación de recursos digitales y su difusión y preservación mediante repositorios 2008

2008-04-01T20:15:00.003+02:00

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