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Aquifer Portal at U of Michigan
Kat Hagedorn and Perry WillettUniversity of MichiganDLF Spring Forum, Austin TXApril 11, 2006
Aquifer: Collections
• Subject matter: American Civil War and Lincoln• Metadata requirements: MODS profile• Currently only two institutions meet both requirements:
–Library of Congress–Indiana University
Aquifer: Harvester
• Built upon the experience with OAIster and IMLS grant
• Expanded to harvest MODS records
• Including thumbnails, “harvested” from UIUC
Aquifer: Portal (1)
• Developed from OAIster
• Improved interface
• More fields to search –Language (now human readable!) –Institution
Aquifer: Portal (2)
• Added “dataset” as resource type
• Developed SRU functionality
Aquifer: Portal
• <http://www.hti.umich.edu/a/aquifer>
Aquifer: Next steps
• Date normalization
• Subject classification / clustering