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For Immediate Release
Falvey Library announces VuDL: Open Source Digital Library
Administration, Alpha Launch
VILLANOVA, Pa. (April 6, 2011) — The Technology
Development team at Villanova University’s Falvey Memorial Library
announces the official alpha launch of their open source digital library
management software, VuDL (http://vudl.org). With VuDL, you can store,
manipulate, display and make discoverable your digital collections.
Most digital library software packages are targeted at
either small/specific collections or very large/very complicated collections.
The former may not have the functionality to describe your objects properly;
the latter, too many options and therefore needless complexity. VuDL is
designed to be somewhere in the middle: flexible enough to describe different
ranges of objects, while small enough to diminish technical overhead.
The simple-to-use Digital Library Administration application
is powered by all open source technologies, and provides a METS metadata
editor, service image generation tools, XML database repository, and a built-in
OAI server.
The core of VuDL's application is powered by Orbeon Forms, a
powerful XML/XForms processor. eXist (a native XML database) and the server's
file system combine to support the data and image repository.
VuDL’s public interface is powered by VuFind
(http://vufind.org), an Open Source discovery layer developed and managed by
Villanova University. VuFind is currently in use in academic and research
libraries in 12 countries, including the National Library of Australia and the
London School of Economics.
Villanova is actively seeking development partners! VuDL is
offered for free through the GPL open source license. For more information and
to download the software, visit http://www.vudl.org.
Contact: David Lacy
Villanova University, Falvey Library
800 Lancaster Ave
Villanova, PA 19085
610-519-7361
http://library.villanova.edu
http://digital.library.villanova.edu
http://vudl.org
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David
Lacy
Falvey
Library Technology Services
Villanova
University
library.villanova.edu
610-519-7361
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