CORAL: USF Libraries Digital Collections Prospectus

Mark I. Greenberg, University of South Florida
Barbara I. Lewis, University of South Florida
Richard R. Bernardy, Jr., University of South Florida

Abstract

This prospectus seeks to explain why the University of South Florida Libraries Special & Digital Collections Department (SDC) decided during the summer of 2009 to leave DigiTool and build a new digital asset management system (DAMS). It explains what SDC holds most important in a new DAMS and how its new DAMS (CORAL) was built. It discuss CORAL’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats and lays the intellectual framework for possible presentations and publications regarding CORAL.