RUcore is being developed in part through projects that build out the architecture and demonstrate the capabilities of RUcore. You can learn more about current projects in the Collaborative Workspaces area below.

A development team, consisting of a Technical Development Steering Committee and multiple workgroups, is tasked with the ongoing development of RUcore. You can learn more about each working group, and the progress in developing RUcore, in the RUcore Development Team area below.

Project Calendar:

Collaborative Projects

• Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD)
• New Jersey Digital Highway (NJDH)
• http://www.njdigitalhighway.org/librarians.php

RUcore Development Team:

• RUcore Team - Grace Agnew - Chair
• Cyberinfrastructure Steering Committee - Grace Agnew - Chair
• Digital Video and Audio Encoding Working Group - Isaiah Beard - Chair
• User Services and Applications Working Group - Linda Langschied & Rhonda Marker - co-Chairs
• Metadata Working Group - Mary Beth Weber - Chair
• Software Architecture Working Group - Ron Jantz - Chair
• Webmaster - Chad Mills

Awards Recieved by RUcore:

Presentations Given About RUcore:

• Incorporating rights and preservation information into the RUcore metadata platform - Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), Fall 2006 Task Force meeting
  • Location: Washington, DC
  • Date: December 5, 2006
  • URL: Briefing Document
  • Presented by: Presentation by Grace Agnew, AUL for Digital Library Systems

• Digitally Preserving Cultural Heritage Materials: A Sustainable Infrastructure
  • Location: Morristown, NJ
  • Date: October 27, 2006
  • URL: http://www.lib.umd.edu/MARAC/conferences/2006/fall06/fall06.html
  • Presented by: Presentation by Ron Jantz, Digital Library Architect

• The New Jersey Digital Highway
  • Location: Morristown, NJ
  • Date: October 27, 2006
  • URL: http://www.lib.umd.edu/MARAC/conferences/2006/fall06/fall06.html
  • Presented by: Presentation by Linda Langschied, Head of the Scholarly Communication Center

• Long-term Repositories: Taking the Shock out of the Future
  • Location: Canberra, Australia
  • Date: August 31, 2006 - September 1, 2006
  • URL: http://www.apsr.edu.au/longterm/index.htm
  • Presented by: Ron Jantz, Digital Library Architect

• Fedora Preservation Services at the Fedora Users Conference
  • Location: Charlottesville, VA
  • Date: June 20, 2006
  • URL: http://www.lib.virginia.edu/digital/fedoraconf/index.shtml
  • Presented by: Ron Jantz, Digital Library Architect

• A FEDORA-Based Institutional Repository to Support Multidisciplinary Collections
  • Location: Ann Arbor, MI
  • Date: May 25, 2006
  • URL: http://webapp.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/iassist/iassist.xml
  • Presented by: Ron Jantz, Digital Library Architect

• Digital Repository Development Using Fedora - New Jersey Library Association Annual Conference
  • Location: Long Branch, NJ
  • Date: April 25, 2006
  • URL: http://www.njla.org/conference/2006/
  • Presented by: Grace Agnew, AUL for Digital Library Systems

• Information Technology for Research: The Impact of National Directions in Cyberinfrastructure
  • Location: Busch, Camden and Newark Campuses
  • Date: April 4, 2006
  • URL: http://internet2.rutgers.edu/agenda.html
  • Presented by: Grace Agnew, AUL for Digital Library Systems

• Implementing Institutional Repositories
  • Location: CNI Spring Task Force Meeting; Arlington, VA
  • Date: April 3, 2006
  • URL: http://www.cni.org/tfms/2006a.spring/index.html
  • Presented by: Ron Jantz, Digital Library Architect