Some digital library source code from a project called Ockham has
been made available.
Ockham is/was a joint project of Oregon State University, University
of Notre Dame, Emory University, and Virginia Tech with some
financial support from the Digital Library Federation. Its goal was
at least two-fold: 1) to create a reference model for digital library
services, and 2) to integrate National Science Foundation Digital
Library content into traditional library settings. To these ends we
jointly created a number of digital library services.
Here at Notre Dame we created three services:
1) MyLibrary@Ockham - an index of OAI accessible content
from NDSL whose interface is enhanced with things like
Find More Like This and Did You Mean? services all
accessible through a Search/Retrieve via URL interface
2) Ockham Alert - a current awareness service against
OAI-accessible content using RSS as the primary
distribution method, again accessible through SRU
3) Spell - given a string as input, this rudimentary Web
Service returns a list of alternative spellings for the
input
I finally got around to packaging up our software and made it available:
* MyLibrary@Ockham
o source: http://code.google.com/p/ockham-mylibrary/
o example: http://mylibrary.ockham.org/
* Ockham Alert
o source: http://code.google.com/p/ockham-alert/
o example: http://alert.ockham.org/
* Spell
o source: http://code.google.com/p/ockham-spell/
o example: http://spell.ockham.org/
Team Ockham sincerely appreciates the support provided by the DLF.
Thank you.
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Eric Lease Morgan
Head, Digital Access and Information Architecture Department
University Libraries of Notre Dame
(574) 631-8604
