Hi, Phil.

We use Fedora Commons at University of Virginia, and we're in the  
process of rolling out Blacklight as our front end. You can see an  
example of it at http://blacklight.betech.virginia.edu. This allows  
us to maintain a single index containing all of our bibliographic  
holdings from our library, along with items from our Fedora digital  
repository.

I hope you'll be able to see the images, since in many cases they're  
IP restricted in Fedora, but here is an example of our image  
collection, stored in Fedora and displayed with Blacklight:

http://blacklight.betech.virginia.edu/catalog?collection_facet=UVa 
+Image+Collection

And here is a search for TEI text objects, also from our Fedora  
repository:

http://blacklight.betech.virginia.edu/?collection_facet=UVa+Library 
+Text&page=2

This project is still in development, so I hope you won't hit any  
bugs, but please let me know if you do. We're pretty excited about  
delivering our Fedora content in this way. Blacklight is open source  
(http://blacklight.rubyforge.org/) and we would love to have more  
development partners. There's also an effort to create a Blacklight  
front end for Miradora (but I can't find a website for this, sorry).

Let me know if you want more information, or better yet, join the  
mailing list.

Bess

Elizabeth (Bess) Sadler
Research and Development Librarian
Digital Scholarship Services
Box 400129
Alderman Library
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA 22904

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On Oct 28, 2008, at 4:15 PM, Phil Cryer wrote:

> Last week I gave a presentation at the TDWG 2008 meeting in Fremantle,
> Western Australia, titled "Using Fedora Commons To Create A Persistent
> Archive"
> http://www.slideshare.net/phil.cryer/using-fedora-commons-to-create- 
> a-persistent-archive-presentation
>
> It was well received, and think it has plenty of overlap to this list.
> Anyone out there using Fedora Commons?  Do you have an opinion on a  
> use
> able front end?
>
> Thanks
>
> P
> --
> Phil Cryer | Open Source Dev Lead | web www.mobot.org | skype  
> phil.cryer