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mPach project update: December 2012
January 11, 2013
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Staff at the University of Michigan revised the list of modules for mPach, to reflect recent changes in the planned system architecture. An extensive conceptual workflow for ingest of an mPach Submission Information Package into HathiTrust has been devised and will be finalized soon.
mPach project update: November 2012
December 16, 2012
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Staff at the University of Michigan continued work on a mockup of changes needed to the PageTurner interface to support navigation of XML-based articles. Staff began to develop functionality to render JATS articles in PDF (for download purposes).
Used Book Sale
December 12, 2012
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The University Library is selling several thousand gently used books, including duplicate and superseded titles, and other books not needed for the collection. There's something for everyone, at low, low prices.
mPach project update: October 2012
November 12, 2012
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Staff at the University of Michigan completed a prototype of the Prepper module (see a list of all modules), as well as enhancements to PageTurner to display journal articles encoded in JATS XML, in time for a presenta
mPach project update: September 2012
October 1, 2012
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Staff at the University of Michigan created a mockup of PageTurner changes that will be needed to navigate the XML-based journal articles that will be submitted via mPach. Work also continued on modifications to PageTurner to display JATS XML and embedded media and on refinements to the METS specification for mPach Submission Information Packages.
mPach project update: August 2012
September 1, 2012
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The mPach team at the University of Michigan updated the project timeline on
mPach project update: July 2012
July 1, 2012
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University of Michigan staff completed a diagram of the mPach system architecture, which has been added to the mPach website. Staff also refined the schema for mapping bibliographic data from JATS XML (the format to be used for encoded text) to MARC records, which are required for ingest into HathiTrust. Work continued on wireframes for the Dashboard module (see a description of all modules), on the profile for the METS file that will accompany digital objects in Submission Information Packages, and on rendering XML articles in the HathiTrust PageTurner.
mPach project update: June 2012
July 1, 2012
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University of Michigan staff rewrote the list of modules to be included in mPach, a package of tools Michigan is developing for publishing open access journal content in HathiTrust. Staff divided modules into three categories: Editorial Workflow and Peer Review, Content Preparation, and HathiTrust.
MLibrary Undergraduate Research Award 2011-2012 Award Winners
May 25, 2012
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MLibrary is pleased to announce the winners of the 2nd annual MLibrary Undergraduate Student Research Award. In recognition of the extraordinary academic achievements of our undergraduate students, this award honors excellence in library research conducted in support of an undergraduate student project.
