FEDORA AND SPOKEN WORD Iain Wallace Spoken Word Services Fedora UK Users Meeting 090506

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FEDORA AND SPOKEN WORD Iain WallaceSpoken Word
Services Fedora UK Users Meeting 09/05/06
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Background

• JISC/NSF Digital Libraries in the Classroom
• Project Partners
• Importance of BBC Information Archives
• Duration and Nature of the Project
• Aims and Objectives
• Tools and Pedagogy
• Non-BBC media also included
• Fedora development expertise at Academic
  Technologies, Northwestern University

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What we have done so far

• Repos MSU custom built MySQL/PHP repository
• Audio/Video Metadata
• Padova Web 2.0 front end to Repos
• Streaming/Downloadable media
• Successfully imported BBC archives catalogue to
  Fedora (several hundred thousand records)
• Mapped native metadata to Dublin Core (expressed
  in FOXML)

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Padova example 1
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Padova example 2
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What we plan to do now

• Use Fedora as main repository from summer 06
  export Repos records and match media to metadata
  in Fedora
• Express metadata in Fedora using METS
• Change Padova to address Fedora
• Use Fedora with Project Pad a Sakai compliant
  collaborative media annotation tool (Open Source)

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Collaboration interests

• Fedora integrations .
• Sakai
• Shibboleth
• Library systems
• Institutional Repositories?
• Sharing expertise .

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Useful URLS

• Spoken Word Services
• http//www.spokenword.ac.uk/
• Encyclopedia of Chicago
• http//www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/
• Project Pad at Northwestern University
• http//dewey.at.northwestern.edu/ppad2/
• BBC Programme Catalogue (Prototype)
• http//open.bbc.co.uk/catalogue/infax/