Oregon Digital Library Project

About This Grant

The Oregon Digital Library Project (ODLP) will build upon the previous investigations done by OSU Libraries, and seek to build a collaborative portal for the discovery of digital collections created by institutions within the State of Oregon .  Utilizing LibraryFind, a previously funded LSTA project, the ODLP would create a centralized portal for information that could be searched by any library user to locate digital assets created by Oregon' s cultural centers and locate them in context to materials that may exist at other institutions.  Additionally, the ODLP will act as a repository for search engines, exposing all harvested metadata for indexing into the greater WWW.  For institutions that already make their materials available for harvest, this would add additional exposure and weight to their page rank.  For institutions that currently do not have the ability to make their materials available to the WWW for general indexing, the ODLP will expose those collections to a much wider and diverse audience.