Hello group,
I just wanted to share with everyone a major redesign we
have completed
(or 95% completed) on our Digital Library. This is a full
HTML & CSS
facelift with additional features to come in the future.
http://digital.l
ibrary.villanova.edu
While most of you will not have seen the old design, what I
am
especially happy with in this process is how the new design
better
illuminates the hierarchical data structure and created a
new separation
between the act of browsing documents and the act of viewing
a document.
A little about our DigLib: The site is currently running on
a system
written by Andrew Nagy in PHP with an eXist XML database. In
the near
future we will be running our documents through a
server-side OCR
process and indexing the full-text of the documents,
converting Tiffs to
JPEG2000 to create a better zoom feature, and doing more
with dynamic
PDF creation. Even further into the future we will be
exploring the
possibility of putting our software out as an open source
package.
Still have lots to do, but I would love to have any feedback
from the
community.
Best,
Chris Barr
Interface and Design Specialist
Falvey Memorial Library
Villanova University
(610) 519-9254
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