RUcore tools are designed to make it easy for Rutgers faculty and their collaborators to participate in the Rutgers Community Repository.
RUcore is developing tools that faculty can apply to their research projects to organize information and make it available to the worldwide community of researchers.
RUcore develops tools for the repository and in collaboration with RU departments and individuals.Under Development:
In collaboration with the Graduate School - New Brunswick, a service to automate the workflow of submitting a thesis or dissertation to the graduate school, as well as to build a collection of electronic theses and dissertations that can be browsed by school or department, as well as by subject, author, etc. is under development.
This tool, which will be available in v 4.0, will allow any individual or project to easily add collection searching to a home page, electronic CV, or project website, so that project resources belonging to that collection can be searched and displayed. The search and retrieval will be automatically up to date with any resources that the faculty member, department or project adds.
Current Tools:
The most important tool is the Workflow Management System-a web-based graphical user interface for uploading digital objects (images, data sets, audio files, video files, digital text, etc.) and creating metadata to describe and manage those objects.
The WMS supports two roles: the administrator, who selects vocabularies and designs metadata templates that provide default information for many data elements, to speed up the metadata creation process, and the team member, who uploads objects and creates metadata, using the metadata templates.
An interactive demonstration of the WMS will soon be available.
In the meantime, you can take a tour of the WMS by reading the WMS Users' Guide, which includes step-by-step instructions and screen shots.
The WMS supports the RUcore data model, with metadata to describe and manage digital objects. You can find definitions and examples for all the metadata data elements in the Repository Metadata Guidelines.
WMS Documentation: For more information about WMS, contact the WMS project manager.RUcore has developed an electronic open journal platform that establishes a peer-review process, a web-based presentation platform for searching or browsing journal issues and an article-level archiving strategy that maintains each article in the RUcore repository. Current journals include Pragmatic Case Studies in Psychotherapy, The Electronic Journal of Boundary Elements, Journal of Rutgers University Libraries and the Rutgers Scholar: an Electronic Bulletin of Undergraduate Research. If you are interested in using RUL's open journal system to publish an e-journal, contact the project manager.
Websites can be encapsulated, with their site navigation and image files intact, for an archived "snapshot" of the website at a specific date and time. Contact the project manager for more information.
Supports sharing resources with other initiatives via harvesting from RUcore.