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Forging a Digital Revolution:The GALILEO Knowledge Repository
Catherine M. JannikDigital Initiatives Manager, Georgia Institute of Technology
The GALILEO Knowledge Repository
• An institutional repository for the entire state of Georgia– Collect– Disseminate– Preserve
• Based on the model of GIL
History of the GKR• RACL Executive Committee (Aug. 2004)• GKR Funding Proposal (Sept. 2004)• Metadata Group (Oct. 2004 – Aug. 2005)• Technical Group (December 2005-)
Progress to Date• Metadata Group
– Metadata standard• Technical Group
– Software platform chosen– Pilot site
• Georgia Southern, Georgia State, Georgia Tech, MCG, UGA, USG/ALT
Open Source Systems• 35 USG Institutions
– DSpace– Eprints
• GKR– Aggregated metadata– Open source search engine - Lucene
GKR• http://gkr.gatech.edu/
• http://www.library.gsu.edu/blogs/gkr/