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<strong class="bold">Contributor(s)</strong>: THL Staff.</p><p class="paragraph"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="listHier lines"><tr><th scope="col">Application</th><th scope="col">Uses</th><th scope="col">Technologies</th><th scope="col">Server Support Requirements</th><th scope="col">Status</th><th scope="col">Documentation</th><th scope="col"> </th></tr><tr class="table-odd"><td><strong class="bold">Adobe Acrobat</strong></td><td>To create PDFs of scanned publications for electronic reprint.</td><td>Commercial software.</td><td>Desktop application.</td><td>Commercial software.</td><td>Company?s user manual.</td><td> </td></tr><tr class="table-even"><td><strong class="bold">Announcement tool</strong></td><td>To post announcements.</td><td> </td><td> </td><td>Open source provided as part of Sakai suite.</td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr class="table-odd"><td><strong class="bold">Arcview</strong></td><td>To create and manage GIS files.</td><td>Commercial software.</td><td>Desktop application.</td><td>Commercial software.</td><td>Company?s user manual.</td><td> </td></tr><tr class="table-even"><td><strong class="bold">Audio-video database</strong></td><td>To catalog audio-video recordings, catalog tapes, organize titles into collections, search for titles, and display recordings with transcripts.</td><td>MYSQL, PHP</td><td> </td><td>Currently being redone at UVa from scratch with Spring 2007 delivery date. Old version is still in use.</td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr class="table-odd"><td><strong class="bold">Audio-Video Concordancer</strong></td><td>To search through transcripts and then display segments from multiple recordings based upon search results in an integrated fashion.</td><td>Java, QuickTime</td><td> </td><td>Currently under development by Ed Garrett and not available for use.</td><td>None.</td><td> </td></tr><tr class="table-even"><td><strong class="bold">Calendar tool</strong></td><td>To post events on a calendar.</td><td> </td><td> </td><td>Open source provided as part of Sakai suite.</td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr class="table-odd"><td><strong class="bold">Dictionary basic</strong></td><td>To store and deliver basic dictionaries</td><td>Ruby on Rails</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr class="table-even"><td>Dictionary complex</td><td>To store and deliver complex dictionaries with historical passages, etc.</td><td>Ruby on Rails</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr class="table-odd"><td><strong class="bold">Discussion forum</strong></td><td>To hold threaded discussions.</td><td> </td><td> </td><td>Open source provided as part of Sakai suite.</td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr class="table-even"><td><strong class="bold">Encyclopedia</strong></td><td>To index data of all types according to ontologies or topical knowledge maps.</td><td>XML, XSLT. Uses GDMS and TEI DTDs.</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr class="table-odd"><td><strong class="bold">Fedora</strong></td><td>To provide the basic architecture for the digital library management.</td><td> </td><td> </td><td>Open source project developed at UVa-Cornell. Download and information available at <span class="nobr"><img src="/" alt="external link: " title="external link"/><a href="http://www.fedora.info/" target="rwikiexternal">Fedora's home page</a></span>.</td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr class="table-even"><td><strong class="bold">Final Cut Pro</strong></td><td>To log, edit, and compress audio-video recordings.</td><td>Commercial software.</td><td>Desktop application.</td><td>Commercial software.</td><td>User manual, plus we have documentation of how we use.</td><td> </td></tr><tr class="table-odd"><td><strong class="bold">Flash</strong></td><td>To allow interactive content, especially with maps.</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr class="table-even"><td><strong class="bold">FontLab</strong></td><td>To create Tibetan fonts.</td><td>Commercial software.</td><td>Desktop application.</td><td>Commercial software.</td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr class="table-odd"><td><strong class="bold">Gazetteer</strong></td><td>To store information about place names.</td><td>XML, XSLT, Cocoon, Lucene; uses custom made DTD.</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr class="table-even"><td><strong class="bold">GDMS</strong></td><td>To markup collections and ontologies.</td><td>A XML DTD.</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr class="table-odd"><td>Image database</td><td>To store and deliver images with metadata.</td><td>Currently MYSQL, PHP. We plan to start using another system developed at UVa that is based upon XML, XSLT, and Java (check).</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr class="table-even"><td><strong class="bold">iView</strong></td><td>To easily catalog images in initial phase of work.</td><td>Commercial software.</td><td>Desktop application.</td><td>Commercial software.</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr class="table-odd"><td><strong class="bold">Journal Publishing system</strong></td><td>To publish electronic journal.</td><td>XML, XSLT..</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr class="table-even"><td><strong class="bold">Mailing list</strong></td><td>To have archived mailing lists.</td><td> </td><td> </td><td>Open source provided as part of Sakai suite.</td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr class="table-odd"><td><strong class="bold">Map Server</strong></td><td>To render maps out of GIS data.</td><td>??</td><td> </td><td>Open Source project developed at University of Minnesota (?). Can be obtained from <img src="/" alt="external link: " title="external link"/><span class="nobr"><a href="http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/." target="rwikiexternal">http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/.</a></span></td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr class="table-even"><td><strong class="bold">Oscar's File Renaming/Management</strong></td><td>Efficient means for editing/managing directory files/names</td><td>Free OS</td><td>All file types</td><td>Desktop App</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr class="table-odd"><td><strong class="bold">Participant Databases</strong></td><td>To post descriptions with images of THL Projects, Participants, Organizations and Funders.</td><td>XML, XSLT</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr class="table-even"><td><strong class="bold">Quicktime</strong></td><td>To play audio-video recordings.</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr class="table-odd"><td><strong class="bold">QTVR</strong></td><td>To play 360 degree images.</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr class="table-even"><td><strong class="bold">QuillDriver</strong></td><td>To transcribe and view transcriptions for audio-video.</td><td>Java, XML, XSLT</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr class="table-odd"><td><strong class="bold">Resource sharing</strong></td><td>To allow users to upload and download resources, as well as classify them into folders and subfolders.</td><td> </td><td> </td><td>Open source provided as part of Sakai suite.</td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr class="table-even"><td><strong class="bold">Rosters</strong></td><td>To allow users involved in Tibet knowledge production to post and refine descriptions of their background and work.</td><td>Java, ??, MYSQL</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr class="table-odd"><td><strong class="bold">Sakai</strong></td><td>To provide a standard suite of communication and collaboration tools.</td><td>Various.</td><td> </td><td>Open Source project led by a consortium of Universities. See <img src="/" alt="external link: " title="external link"/><span class="nobr"><a href="http://www.sakaiproject.org/." target="rwikiexternal">http://www.sakaiproject.org/.</a></span> UVa?s installation has: WIKI, Discussion forum, Chatting, Resource Sharing, Announcements, Calendar.</td><td>Sakai site has documentation; UVa installation has built in help files; THL has its own WIKI help documentation.</td><td> </td></tr><tr class="table-even"><td><strong class="bold">Scout Portal Toolkit</strong></td><td>To maintain bibliography of Web sites and secondary literature</td><td>MYSQL, PHP</td><td>PHP 4.0.6 and MySQL 3.23.29. Red Hat Linux 7.3 (full installation) or later is the recommended environment for running SPT, but it also runs on Solaris and OS X servers.</td><td>Open Source project developed by University of Wisconsin. See <img src="/" alt="external link: " title="external link"/><span class="nobr"><a href="http://scout.wisc.edu/Projects/SPT/." target="rwikiexternal">http://scout.wisc.edu/Projects/SPT/.</a></span> We modified it from a tool for URL management to a tool for dealing with print resources too.</td><td>The SPT web site offers downloads and documentation, while our documentation focus on how to do cataloging with SPT. Since we have had to adapt it to work properly on our Website and with Tibetan Unicode, may or may not want to get our installation directly.</td><td> </td></tr><tr class="table-odd"><td><strong class="bold">Server</strong></td><td>The basic server for all data.</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr class="table-even"><td><strong class="bold">Subversion</strong></td><td>To enable version archiving and control on all files managed on Server.</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr class="table-odd"><td><strong class="bold">TEI.</strong></td><td>To markup Essays.</td><td>A XML DTD.</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr class="table-even"><td><strong class="bold">Tibetan Language Instructional Unit system</strong></td><td>To create Tibetan language instructional units.</td><td>XML, XSLT. Uses GDMS DTD.</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr class="table-odd"><td><strong class="bold">Tibetan Literary Catalog System</strong></td><td>To create deep level catalogs of Tibetan literature as front end for indexing the actual texts and associated resources.</td><td>XML-XSLT; uses custom made DTD. Searching indexing currently being decided.</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr class="table-even"><td><strong class="bold">TrackPlus</strong></td><td>To enable workflow management at a very granular, task-based level.</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr class="table-odd"><td><strong class="bold">Translation tool</strong></td><td>To break Tibetan passages into component words and deliver corresponding English definitions from multiple dictionaries.</td><td>Java</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr class="table-even"><td><strong class="bold">VRML</strong></td><td>To display three dimensional structures on the Web.</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr class="table-odd"><td><strong class="bold">WIKI</strong></td><td>To enable participants to collaboratively work on documents.</td><td> </td><td> </td><td>Open source provided as part of Sakai suite.</td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr class="table-even"><td><strong class="bold">Zoomifier</strong></td><td>To display high resolution photos with low res front end that can be zoomed in on to access high resolution of specific areas of the image.</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr></table>
</p><h3 class="heading-h6"><a name="ProvidedforunrestrictedusebythespanclassnobrimgsrcsakairwikitoolimagesicklearrowgifaltexternallinktitleexternallinkahrefhttpwwwthdlorgtargetrwikiexternalTibetanandHimalayanLibraryaspan" class="anchorpoint"></a><em class="italic">Provided for unrestricted use by the <span class="nobr"><img src="/" alt="external link: " title="external link"/><a href="http://www.thdl.org" target="rwikiexternal">Tibetan and Himalayan Library</a></span></em></h3>