[XML4Lib] Princeton Theological Seminary Library Moves into the Digital Future with Mark Logic

[Engard, Nicole]

New Digital Collection To Be Unveiled on Seminary Campus October 26

 

Princeton, NJ, October 26, 2007-When the librarians at Princeton
Theological Seminary were seeking to develop and expand their digital
collections, they decided to look beyond traditional library vendors to
innovative companies in the world of content publishing.

"We were looking to move forward with our digital collections as we
approach the Seminary's bicentennial in 2012" said Clifford Anderson,
curator of special collections at Princeton Seminary. "We had developed
a system in-house to deploy our XML-based digital content, which helped
us to get going with our digital projects. However, we were running up
against its limits-relatively slow response times, no good solution for
searching our XML content, and a fairly complicated programming model.
We needed a far more robust system to take our digital collections to
the next level."

Anderson and his colleagues spent more than a year looking at options
before deciding on the MarkLogic Server, an XML content server from Mark
Logic Corporation. "What set the MarkLogic Server apart for us was the
combination of its powerful ability to store, query, search, and render
XML-based content with its wonderfully simple systems administration.
Our team is small and we need to stay agile. Mark Logic made it possible
for us to build and deploy applications directly in XQuery, without any
additional overhead," said Anderson.

Contemporary libraries face the challenge of competing with major
digitization projects outside the world of traditional librarianship.
"We recognize that the best way to compete under these constantly
changing conditions is to leverage our specialized knowledge of the
content," said Stephen Crocco, the Seminary's James Lennox Librarian.
"The MarkLogic Server will help us to unlock our XML content in ways we
know will be most useful to our users." Nicole Engard, the Seminary's
newly hired metadata librarian, is looking forward to developing new
features on a regular basis. "I am very excited to see what other
publishers, such as O'Reilly, have achieved with this tool and can't
wait to provide patrons with new ways of researching within our
collection," she said.

"Princeton Theological Seminary is at the forefront of technical
innovation in libraries," said Andy Feit, vice president of marketing at
Mark Logic Corporation. "For libraries to compete with Internet search
and other sources of information they must find new ways to enable
members to access and interact with valuable and unique content. Using
emerging technology such as XML and XQuery to manage content is a
breakthrough and we are pleased to partner with the Seminary Library to
provide a highly scalable, high performing platform for its prized
digital collections."

Digitizing library materials and thus making them accessible to scholars
and church leaders around the world is a key part of the Seminary's
strategic plan.

The Seminary Library unveiled its new digital collections at a joint
meeting of the New York Theological Library Association and the
Southeast Pennsylvania Theological Library Association on Friday,
October 26 on the Princeton Seminary Campus. The collections will
contain a wealth of material related to the history of Princeton
Seminary, including the full run of the Princeton Theological Review and
the Princeton Seminary Bulletin. The system will be available after that
date at http://digital.library.ptsem.edu
<http://digital.library.ptsem.edu/> .

Princeton Theological Seminary was founded in 1812, the first seminary
established by the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church. It is
the largest Presbyterian Seminary in the country, with more than 700
students in seven graduate degree programs.

Mark Logic Corporation is the provider of the industry's leading XML
content server. Mark Logic works with providers of information products
to accelerate new product creation, deliver products through multiple
channels, integrate content from different sources, repurpose content
into multiple products, build custom publishing systems, and mine
content to find previously undiscovered information. The company holds
two patents on the innovative technology in MarkLogic Server, which
enables companies to load, query, manipulate, and render XML content
using the W3C standard XQuery language. For more information about Mark
Logic, or to download a free trial copy of the MarkLogic Server, go to
www.marklogic.com <http://www.marklogic.com/> or visit the Mark Logic
CEO blog at http://marklogic.blogspot.com
<http://marklogic.blogspot.com/> .

For more information about the Seminary and its digital collections,
contact the curator of special collections Clifford Anderson at
clifford.anderson at ptsem.edu.

 

 

Thanks,

Nicole C. Engard

Metadata Librarian

Princeton Theological Seminary Libraries

Email: nicole.engard at ptsem.edu 

Web: http://libweb.ptsem.edu <http://libweb.ptsem.edu/> 

 

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