1. Aquifer Portal at U of Michigan Kat Hagedorn and Perry Willett University of Michigan DLF Spring Forum, Austin TX April 11, 2006

2. Aquifer: Collections Subject matter: American Civil War and Lincoln Metadata requirements: MODS profile Currently only two institutions meet both requirements: –Library of Congress –Indiana University

3. Aquifer: Harvester Built upon the experience with OAIster and IMLS grant Expanded to harvest MODS records Including thumbnails, “harvested” from UIUC

4. Aquifer: Portal (1) Developed from OAIster Improved interface More fields to search –Language (now human readable!) –Institution

5. Aquifer: Portal (2) Added “dataset” as resource type Developed SRU functionality

6. Aquifer: Portal http://www.hti.umich.edu/a/aquifer

10. Aquifer: Next steps Date normalization Subject classification / clustering