Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Mission Statement
• Why Should I Participate in RUcore
• What Will RUcore Include?
• Why build RUcore now?
• Trusted Repository: Long-term preservation and access to information
• How does RUcore work?
• The Data Model
• Fedora, the Repository Architecture
• Fedora Metadata
• Information Management Tools and Standards
• Footnotes

RUcore will provide a permanent, open-access digital archive for the information resources originating at Rutgers University. It will include:

• primary source materials (photographs, data sets, digital video and audio, preprints, technical reports, grant reports, etc.)
• Theses and dissertations created at Rutgers University
• Significant special collections from Rutgers University Libraries, including New Jerseyana, materials from the Institute of Jazz Studies, labor collections, and the papers of significant statesmen and politicians from New Jersey.

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In addition to collections, over the next two years, RUcore will provide web-based tools that are easy and intuitive to employ, including:

• A web-based digital workflow management system to allow faculty to add resources to RUcore and to customize metadata for indexing the resources.
• A script and indexing page to allow any project to easily add collection searching to a project website, so that project resources housed in RUcore can be searched and displayed from the project website.
• A web archiving toolkit, which will periodically create snapshots of websites, maintaining the website's hierarchical structure, according to a timetable established by the website owner, to provide an historical "audit trail" for the website.
• An Open Archives Initiative (OAI) facility to support sharing resources with other initiatives via harvesting from RUcore.
• An e-journal platform for creating, managing and publishing e-journals.
• Integration with Sakai, for pulling RUcore resources into Sakai courses.
• A SCORM-compliant course management system to create courses and educational resources that can be exported to any SCORM-compliant course management system (WebCT, Blackboard, etc.)
• A concept map utility for clustering RUcore resources into personal collections, based on concept maps.

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