New Release! iVia Open Source Portal and Virtual Library Software

[jmason]

The INFOMINE team at the University of California Riverside announces the 
release of our newest version of the iVia open source portal and virtual 
library software at:  http://infomine.ucr.edu/iVia/

A brief description of the iVia system is summarized below from the 
abstract of our recent article in D-Lib Magazine (January 2003):

iVia is an open source Internet subject portal or virtual library system. 
As a hybrid expert and machine built collection creation and management 
system, it supports a primary, expert-created, first-tier collection that 
is augmented by a large, second-tier collection of significant Internet 
resources that are automatically gathered and described. iVia has been 
developed by and is the platform for INFOMINE, a scholarly virtual library 
collection of over 26,000 librarian-created and 80,000 plus machine-created 
records describing and linking to academic Internet resources. The software 
enables institutions to work cooperatively or individually to provide 
well-organized, virtual library collections of metadata descriptions of 
Internet and other resources, as well as rich full-text harvested from 
these resources. iVia is powerful, flexible and customizable to the needs 
of single or multiple institutions. It is designed to help virtual 
libraries scale. This article describes the results of the last four years 
of work on iVia as funded by the National Leadership grant program of the 
U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Fund for the Improvement 
of Post-Secondary Education (U.S. Department of Education), and the Library 
of the University of California, Riverside.

A more detailed description of this software is available in the January 
2003 D-Lib Magazine at 
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january03/mitchell/01mitchell.html.

All are welcome to use this software.  Projects interested in working 
together or collaborating on co-development of systems or virtual library 
collection content building should contact Steve Mitchell, Project 
Director, at smitch at ucrac1.ucr.edu.

Regards,
The INFOMINE Team
http://infomine.ucr.edu/about/participants.php





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