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This wiki site for the Digital Library Federation Aquifer project is hosted by the Indiana University Libraries for historical purposes. The DLF Aquifer project ran from 2003-2009 and created a web site known as American Social History Online |
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DLF Aquifer is a Digital Library Federation initiative. Our purpose is to promote effective use of distributed digital library content for teaching, learning, and research in the area of American culture and life. We support scholarly discovery and access by:
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, later American History Online. That website is no longer available. |
The DLF Aquifer initiative is pleased to share with the digital library research community various products of our work that we believe will have use outside the project |
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OAI Static Repository Gateway
To any potential Aquifer collection providers who were holding out because they did not have an OAI data provider: here is your chance to participate.
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http://imlsdcc.grainger.uiuc.edu/gateway.net/oai.aspx?initiate=your_static_url_goes _here
The gateway will validate your repository and email you with some confirmation instructions. For details on how initiate works refer to the OAI Static Repository specification:
http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/guidelines-static-repository.htm#SR_initiating
Also for anyone who would like to host their own OAI Static Gateway Service the code is open source and can be downloaded from the UIUC OAI Metadata Harvesting Project SourceForge site. The code is available from the SourceForge SVN or as a ZIP file:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=47963&p
The DLF Aquifer Metadata Working Group has produced the following documentation for sharing within the digital library community. The Working Group welcomes comments on this documentation. Comments and questions can be sent to any Working Group member.
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Collection Development
DLF Aquifer actively seeks material that fits within an American culture and life theme, broadly defined. Please consult the document below for information about contributing digital collections to DLF Aquifer.
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Aquifer Project Team and Working Group Resources
Team News No core team meeting at DLF Spring Forum.
Working Groups (Private)
Project Management (Private)
The Project Management area contains project schedules, communication plans and items of interest to all working groups.
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| DLF Aquifer is Pleased to offer American Social History Online through generous support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation DLF Aquifer is a Digital Library Federation initiative. Our purpose is to promote effective use of distributed digital library content for teaching, learning, and research in the area of American culture and life. We support scholarly discovery and access by:
The Digital Library Federation (DLF) tested a model for transitioning products and services from development to sustainability with DLF Aquifer. The attached prospectus describes Aquifer products and services. A transition is now in process for American Social History Online software and services to be sustained at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. As the Digital Library Federation itself is folded in to the Council on Library and Information Resources, other elements of the DLF Aquifer community may be integrated into the CLIR program. |