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/

Questions?

Catherine Jannikjannik@gatech.edu