ERIT Technologies
ERIT provides rich Web-based relational database and technology solutions for not only Jackson Library patrons and staff, but also assists in meeting the needs of students, faculty, and staff across the UNCG campus.
Web Application Development Projects
In Production
- A-Z Index
- The A-Z Index is an alphabetical index of all online campus resources which is maintained by ERIT. In order to make the A-Z Index as user-friendly as possible, we welcome your suggestions for new terms and other general suggestions related to the A-Z Index. In addition to the campus-wide implementation, the University Libraries maintains a localized version of the resource, redubbed Site Index.
- Advising Scheduler
- Originally developed for CASA, both the School of Education SARC and HHP's RPM/HTM department use the Web-based Appointments Sytem to manage advising for registration. Faculty advisors arrange their own advising schedules to their liking and then students select a time that best suits their own schedule.
- Digital Library on American Slavery
Recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities grant, The Digital Library on American Slavery is the final phase of the Race and Slavery Petitions Project. Petition records include a broad range of information including salutations, names of petitioners and defendants, abstracts, subjects, related documents, petition result, a total of forty-two separate variables. There is no current publication, electronic or otherwise, that includes both the names of slaves and their owners. The Digital Library on American Slavery will enhance the data on African Americans and make the entire database--including information on about 200,000 individuals, white and black–-readily available to scholars, historians, teachers, students, genealogists, and interested citizens through a searchable, web-based Digital Library on Slavery.
In 2005, the DLAS project was designated a We The People project for promoting knowledge and understanding of American history and culture
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- EventCal
- EventCal is a University Libraries-hosted solution for pulling public events from Google Calendars via an ASP.NET web-based front-end. The calendaring system is simple to set up, and new calendars can be created in minutes using default settings, though the interface is highly flexible and customizable. Google Calendars serves as a back-end and administrative interface, further easing the administrative burden of maintainers.
Current features include: both list and grid view options, hCalendar microformat support, Loose mapping capabilities.
Users Include:
- Journal Finder
- Journal Finder is an ERIT technology that allows patrons to determine if their school carries a journal title through one convenient, user-friendly Web interface, searching through electronic access, print, document delivery and/or interlibrary loan and other local libraries. In other words, there is always an option for finding the journal article that you need, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week through ONE convenient, user-friendly Web interface.
- News and Newspapers Online
- News and Newspapers Online is a database of thousands of online newspapers and news sites around the world that offer free access to current, general-interest, full-text news. Users can create an account on News and Newspapers Online in which to store a personlized list of news resources that is accessible from any Internet workstation.
- Web3 Wrapper System
- The Wrapper system was developed by Kevin McClain, Web and Technology Coordinator of the Division of Student Affairs (SAF), and Richard Cox of ERIT during the Fall of 2004 as a tool to assist campus units in managing their websites and adapting to the changing University Unit Web Site Requirements. Available in ASP, PHP, and SSI, as well as utilizing standardized variables, syntax and naming conventions, the Wrapper delivers a highly flexible, accessible XHTML/CSS templating system which meets the University Unit requirements, and is running on over 75 distinct UNCG Unit web sites.
Beta Releases
- Resource Scheduler
- The Resource Scheduler is used by various units across the UNCG campus and allows for students and staff to reserve resources such as rooms, computers, and projectors for classroom and research-related use
- Writeboard
- Writeboard, a Libraries online resources initiative, utilizes a combination of our in-house developed web applications, including:
- Journal Finder, our online listing of available e-Journals
- VDBS, a listing of available online vendor databases
- Library Directory, including detailed information on subject and course liaisons
By integrating these disparate applications through a new web-based administrative interface and hooking into UNCG's Banner course system, we have developed a new tool that groups electronic resources at the unique course-level. With this as our foundation and utilizing ASP.NET and SOAP, we expose all of this information via a Web Service, which is then requested via a custom building block created with Adobe Flex and Java within the Blackboard framework.
The beta initiative is being pushed out successfully to between 25 and 30 unique classes within the UNCG Blackboard framework. Over the summer (2007) we begin the process of training the remaining library subject liaisons on the admin tool, and publish to the remaining courses on campus during the Fall 2007 semester.
Legacy
- College of Arts & Sciences Events Calendar
- an ASP object-driven calendar of news and events for the College of Arts and Sciences. This calendar provided summary listings by month with details available via pop-up window. To be supplanted by an implementation of EventCal
- Race and Slavery Petitions Project
- The Race and Slavery Petitions Project is designed to locate, collect, organize, and publish virtually all surviving legislative petitions and a large selected group of county court petitions concerning slavery in the South. ERIT took on the moving of the project from an Oracle-based system to a Microsoft SQL Server/ASP solution, as well as a complete rewriting of the public interface and providing of a new, web-based administration tool for Project staff.
- University Teaching and Learning Center Video Catalog
- ERIT developed for the UTLC an online, searchable catalog of videos available for rental or reservation. The online catalog was searchable by keyword based upon series, subject, or description. Search results were sortable upon multiple fields. This technology has been supplanted by the UTLC catalog's integration into the University Libraries catalog.
