Current Research Projects
The Digital Library Research Group at MIT is active in a
number of digital library research challenges. Two primary
initiatives drive our work:
- Building an open source community in the digital library
domain, through projects such as DSpace, and working with
other research institutions, such as Cambridge University,
in building on the DSpace platform.
- Working with various MIT departments, labs, and centers
(e.g. MIT's CSAIL, MIT Media Lab, the W3C) to apply new
technology to a range of real-world digital library data
discovery, management, and preservation problems.
These projects demonstrate the breadth and depth of expertise
the MIT Libraries are developing in digital library research:
The group's previous projects
include research and development of CWSpace, DEJA,
DSpace and DSpace
@ Cambridge , among others.
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FACADE
FACADE (Future-proofing Architectural Computer-Aided
DEsign) is a two-year project funded by the IMLS
to research strategies and solutions for long-term archiving
of digital architectural materials including two- and three-dimensional
CAD models, Building Information Models, and related material
for building projects. The project is a collaboration the
MIT Libraries Digital Library Research Group with the Rotch
Library, Professor Bill Mitchell of the MIT Media Lab, and
the architectural firm of Frank O. Gehry. The initial building
project is the MIT
Stata Center.
Project website: http://facade.mit.edu/
- Contacts:
- MacKenzie Smith, kenzie (at) mit.edu
William Reilly, wreilly (at) MIT.EDU
PLEDGE
The PLEDGE (PoLicy Enforcement in Data Grid Environments) project is funded by the US National Archives and Records
Administration through the NSF to collaborate with the University
of California, San Diego Libraries and the San Diego Supercomputer
Center on an investigation of using data grid technology
for content storage, as implemented by the SDSCs SRB open
source storage management technology.
Project wiki: http://pledge.mit.edu
Contact: MacKenzie Smith, kenzie (at) mit.edu
SIMILE
The SIMILE (Semantic Interoperability of Metadata
and Information in unLike Environments) project is a collaboration with the W3C,
HP,
MIT
Libraries, and MIT
CSAIL to bring Semantic
Web technology into the real-world domain of library
metadata and to integrate that technology into DSpace.
SIMILE seeks to enhance inter-operability among digital assets,
schemata/vocabularies/ontologies, metadata, and services.
The Simile
wiki offers an overview of the project and describes how
it relates to other DLRG team efforts.
Project website: http://simile.mit.edu/
Project wiki: http://simile.mit.edu/wiki
Contact: Ben Hyde, bhyde (at) mit.edu
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