Poster: Building a Hosted Platform for Managing Monographic Source Materials and Born Digital Publications through Library/Press Collaboration

Abstract

Michigan Publishing (home of the University of Michigan Press and a division of the University of Michigan Library), working in collaboration with colleagues at Indiana, Minnesota, Northwestern, and Penn State universities, intends to create a hosted platform for managing monographic source materials that is native to the modern collaborative infrastructure environment. The partners are seeking funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to be spread over three years (April 1, 2015 to March 31, 2018). During this time, a Hydra/Fedora repository infrastructure, currently being developed at University of Michigan Library, will be extended to accommodate the ingest and interactive presentation of digital materials linked to humanities monographs through stable URLs and Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) printed in paper versions and additional clickable links in electronic formats. Our project is enabled by the widespread implementation of XML workflows in university presses (that allow granular linking to materials outside the book and the creation of multiple versions of the work from the same source files) and the development by libraries of robust data repositories with capable access and preservation layers. This poster session will provide an overview of the Hydra platform that is being conceived, demonstrating how it builds upon work to support various facets of library infrastructure to support digital humanities publishing.