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Electronic Publishing Software for Libraries

October 29th, 2006 by bchawner

This concurrent session covered the background, purpose, and evolution of the DPubS (Digital Publishing Systems) open source software project, based at Cornell University Library, as well as a case study based on Pennsylvania State University Libraries’ use of the package. The audience left with an appreciation of the potential of electronic publishing software to allow [...]

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SUSHI: The NISO Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative

October 28th, 2006 by bchawner

The full title of this presentation was ‘Building a Web Service for the Library World, from the Ground Up’ and that’s exactly what the three presenters covered. We heard about the project’s beginnings and current status, what it means for content providers, and how it affects vendors of ERMs (Electronic Resource Management packages). The presenters [...]

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