Sun Microsystems joined forces with Cornell University, Stanford University and WGBH at the recent EDUCAUSE conference to showcase solutions designed to help campuses and media organizations manage intellectual property on the network, furthering thereby the evolution of the digital campus into a true knowledge enterprise. On display at Sun's booth were content management, digital distribution and infrastructure tools to help schools implement digital libraries, on- and off-campus Web Services and content delivery, and implement digital asset management tools.

"With increased attention to technology, colleges and universities are looking at ways to better use digital information to improve decision making and administration -- much as a business stores, analyzes and uses its data to improved customer service and operations," said Kim Jones, vice president of education and research for Sun. "Working with institutions such as Cornell, Stanford and WGBH, it is Sun's goal to help schools implement and benefit from a true digital campus model, and to leverage that institutional IT environment with next-generation applications to both lower costs and improve the learning environment for students."

A Sun Center of Excellence for Digital Libraries, the Cornell University Library (CUL) is developing a digital archiving preservation system that uses the Endeavor Information Systems and Luna Imaging. CUL uses Endeavor's EnCompass product to manage digital collections and perform federated searches across all of its licensed electronic resources. CUL manages its entire seven million volume library collection with Endeavor's Voyager system and uses Luna's Insight system for image capture, management and archiving. Sun supported CUL's implementation of DSpace, an open source, JavaTM technology-based institutional repository.

At Stanford, also named a Sun Center of Excellence (COE) for the Knowledge Enterprise, Sun and the university have created a model for learning institutions worldwide looking to integrate the various archiving, digital publishing, course management and digitization functions of the campus.

In Boston, WGBH and Sun have launched the first Sun iForceSM Solution Center for Digital Asset Management, a proof-of-concept testing facility designed to help broadcast networks, television stations and other digital media-intensive businesses, as well as governmental and educational institutions, save millions of dollars by building architectures to better manage their digital assets -- including still images, graphics, text, video and audio -- and create new revenue streams from their content. At the heart of the facility is the Reference Architecture jointly developed by Sun and WGBH that allows other institutions to duplicate its repeatable methodologies and save the considerable sums that would otherwise be consumed by consulting efforts.

For more information about Sun's digital campus initiatives, visit: http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/edu [...read more...]

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