“There’s no good idea that can’t be improved upon.”
— Michael Eisner
Several undertakings that were incubated in the Scholars’ Lab have graduated into larger (often open-source, collaborative) projects. Here are just a few.
Project Blacklight
A free and open source ruby-on-rails based library discovery interface, recently highlighted in the Chronicle of Higher Education.
Explore the UVa implementation.
Read more about the Project Blacklight.
THL Place Dictionary
The “Places Portal” of the Tibetan and Himalayan Library stems from a long collaboration between the Scholars’ Lab and THL staff. “Places,” which includes a complex gazetteer, is the area of THL where spatial and geographical data is archived and presented, as well as where rich studies of specific places are published.
Collective Biographies of Women
Alison Booth’s “Collective Biographies of Women” began as a simple electronic text which, in collaboration with the Scholars’ Lab, blossomed into a rich instrument for the study of prosopography. Professor Booth has been selected as an IATH Associate Fellow on the merit of this work.
Solrmarc
A Java-based program for indexing MARC records into Solr indexes. This is the main indexing mechanism for both the Blacklight and Vufind projects.
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