Last fall developers Ryan Chute and Herbert Van de Sompel from Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Research Library released djatoka, a new Open Source JPEG 2000 image server.
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Last fall developers Ryan Chute and Herbert Van de Sompel from Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Research Library released djatoka, a new Open Source JPEG 2000 image server.
A revised diagram & description of the BHL hardware architecture is available.
WonderFetch is the term used for prepopulating the Internet Archives metadata forms (so named because it is more wonderful than regular z39.50 fetching). Using WonderFetch, partner libraries can populate fields with data that would not normally be populated as part of the standard IA process, and then store those values in the foobar_meta.xml file alongside each scanned item in the IA repository. Part of the impetus for implementing WonderFetch was not just to automate the inclusion of volume and issue information for serials – which was important – but to also capture due diligence, rights, and licensing information related to each item. (And yes, the TM is a little joke! No rights reserved).
Learn more about the BHL harvest process from Internet Archive.
The name services are XML-based web services that can be invoked via SOAP or HTTP GET/POST requests. Responses can be received in one of three formats: XML wrapped in a SOAP envelope, XML, or JSON.
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