York Digital Library (YODL)

York Digital Library

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York Digital Library (YODL) is the University of York repository for multimedia resources used in or created out of teaching, research and study at the University. YODL complements both the University's research publications held in White Rose Research Online and the digital teaching materials in the Yorkshare Virtual Learning Environment. YODL contains image collections to support History of Art teaching (restricted to staff/students of History of Art), along with a growing number of public or University-wide collections. University members should login to see additional content which now includes a collection of past exam papers and Masters theses.

Current and future work plans are outlined in the Digital Library roadmap July 2009-Mar 2011 version 0.5. 

Digital Library policy is enshrined in: Digital Library policy document (PDF)

News

For project news see the York Digital Library blog

Projects

The Digital Library have received the following funding.

SAFIR

Part of the initial phase of YODL (Aug 2007-Dec 2008) was funded by the JISC under the name SAFIR (Sound Archives Film Images Repository). This was successfully completed at the end of 2008. Further information can be found in the following:

YODL-ING

Following on from SAFIR, we successfully bid for further JISC funding for an 'enhancement' project, called York Digital Library – Integration for the Next Generation (YODL-ING). 

OpenART

We have once again been successful in bidding for JISC funding for a resource discovery project called OpenART : Open metadata for Art Research at the Tate, which runs from 1st Feb 2011 until 31st July 2011

Involvement in other projects

The Digital Library are partners, or otherwise involved, in the following projects:

Technology

YODL is underpinned by the Fedora open source repository software platform. This provides the storage and management of resources. The user interface and  submission workflow are custom built, with access control provided by Fedora FeSL. Other components include image streaming powered by kakadu and IIP, solr, Fedora gsearch and the mulgara triple store. We continue to use Muradora to power the administrators interface. Please get in touch if you want to know more about our development work.

Help and Guidance

Give us your stuff

Please get in touch if you have a collection which you think should be included in York Digital Library.

Funding and support

York Digital Library recently funded several digitisation projects. We are not, at present, offering digitisation funds although would be happy to discuss projects which fit into within our collecting principles (as outlined in the the following Briefing Paper and Submission Template).

Please get in touch if you are preparing a funding application and would like advice on creating a technical appendix or to discuss how YODL might host collections of research resources/data from funded projects, or how the Digital Library could take a more active role in the proposed project and/or proposal writing.

Information for History of Art Staff and Students

Remember to login with your University username/password from the top right corner of the screen. Two guides to using York Digital Library are available:

Information for Management Masters Students

From November 2010, students enrolled on taught masters programmes in the York Management School will be required to submit the final copy of their thesis to the York Digital Library (YODL). For academic year 2009/10, students should send their thesis by email.

Theses for 2009/2010 are available in York Digital Library (please select the 'All' search tab and try a search for 'Thesis', or browse to the Masters Theses collection; you'll need to login to access the theses).

A list of the theses for 2009/2010 is also available.

How to submit

  • Please submit your thesis as an email attachment.
  • The email MUST be sent from your University email address and should include a subject line containing your name and the phrase 'thesis submission'.
  • Submit theses in the PDF/A file format. Regular PDF and Microsoft doc or docx formats will be accepted, and converted. Information on how to create PDF/A document is included below.
  • Relevant supplementary files may be included with the submission.
  • Submitted documents should not exceed 70MB in total.

Prior to submission, students MUST read the deposit agreement. Click on the link below to submit your thesis.

The Digital Library will acknowledge receipt of the thesis, which will be added to York Digital Library and made available to all York users.

Creating a PDF/A with Microsoft Word 2007 (Windows)

  • Select File > 'Save As' PDF or XPS.
  • On the resulting window check the radio button marked 'Standard'
  • Click 'Options' and check the box marked 'ISO 19005-1 compliant (PDF/A).

Creating a PDF/A with Open Office 3 (Windows)

  • Select File > 'Export to PDF'
  • Check the box marked 'PDF/A-1'

Licensing and Permissions

Please note that these documents do not constitute legal advice.

Resource Creation and Digitisation

Other Documents

Further information is available on our wiki.

Contacts

Email: dlib-info@york.ac.uk

Julie Allinson (Digital Library Manager)
Harry Fairhurst Building, Library & Archives, University of York
Telephone: (01904) 324083
Email: julie.allinson@york.ac.uk

The current team:

  • Peri Stracchino (Digital Library Systems Developer/Administrator)
  • Yankui Feng (Digital Library Developer)
  • Paul Young (Digital Library Developer)
  • Matthew Herring (Digital Library Officer)
  • Paul Shields (Photographer)
  • Helen Savage (Digitisation Assistant)
Former team-mates: Lucy Jaques, Jess Stephens, Nigel Thomas