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Monthly Archives: December 2005

Segue 1.5 released

December 22, 2005 by
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December 22, 2005

Segue version 1.5 has been released on SourceForge and is now running at Middlebury College. This version fixes some bugs, makes some user interface changes, and adds a few new features including:

  • Sidebar Navigation – Segue pages links can be displayed in either the left or right sidebar
  • Sidebar Content blocks – HTML content can be displayed in either sidebar column
  • Sidebar RSS feeds – RSS feeds can now be displayed in sidebar columns.
  • Categories – Segue has always allowed users to categorize content blocks. this version allows for multiple tags for any given block and introduces a category page type that will display all blocks in a given category
  • Participant List – Site owners can now display a list of all the participants and editors in a given site. If a site has associated sites (i.e. sites for participants that are associated with the site), then links to these sites are automatically created.
  • Presentation Mode – Segue pages that is set to display one content block at a time can function as slide shows and include pagination and a select menu that allows users to jump to any given slide
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NITLE Digital Asset Management Symposium

December 4, 2005 by
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December 4, 2005

Adam and I attended a digital asset management (DAM) symposium in Atlanta hosted by the NITLE and the ASC Technology Center. Among the DAM systems presented included CONTENTdm, BEPress, ARTstor, MDID, Luna, DSpace and Fedora.

CONTENTdm seemed to be the most commonly used system with a good user interface for metadata and reasonable support for various media types. Madison Digital Image Database (MDID) was popular amongst institutions whose assets were primarily images. For asset collections of primarily textual material, BEPress was popular. DSpace was favored when there were diverse collections and a need for archiving and workflow management.

Fedora remains one of the most widely respected systems, seeming to provide the most flexible architecture for managing a wide variety of digital objects. It is also finally becoming possible to use with the recent development of applications for creating and managing collections in Fedora including ELATED and more recently FEZ. This latter product may be particularly interesting to Middlebury since it uses PHP and MySQL and offers the tools needed to maintain an institutional repository much like DSpace.

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