How ResCartaWeb Works

Each page was scanned as a bi-tone TIFF at 600dpi and the image files were processed with an OCR program. This generated the search text that was placed into the individual tiff files according to the ResCarta standards defining monograph and serial objects. The ResCarta Collection Manager was used to create the collection metadata and an Apache Lucene index was created using the ResCarta Indexer Tool. The data files and the index were then placed on the Apache Tomcat web server and the ResCartaWeb software was copied to the WEB-APPS directory. We have used JSP pages running on an Apache Tomcat server that allows us to serve ResCarta formatted data to the web quickly and easily.

You may browse the list or perform a keyword search. Look for "shoemaker" or "gunsmith" to see how many hits are generated. Or try "Clemens", a favorite son in Missouri. To start the demo, please click here.

ResCartaWeb Specifications

SERVER SIDE
Hardware recommendations

Intel® Pentium® 4 1.8 GHz processor
1.0 GB RAM or greater
15 MB available disk space for ResCartaWeb softwaredditional disk space proportional to the projected expansion of your ResCartaWeb data

Software recommendations

Apache™ Tomcat 5 or greater
Sun® Microsystems JavaTM Runtime Environment (JRE) 1.5 or greater
Any Windows, Linux, or Macintosh-based operating system, supported by both Tomcat 5.0 or greater and Sun Microsystems JRE 1.5 or greater

CLIENT SIDE
Software recommendations

Works with any of the following browsers:

Internet Explorer 6.0 or greater
Mozilla Firefox™ 1.5 or greater
Safari™ 1.0 or greater
Opera™ 8.0 or greater


View How Libraries Use ResCartaWeb

ResCartaWeb is running at the Hannibal Free Public Library in Hannibal, MO and may be viewed at http://hannibal.library.umsystem.edu:8080/ResCarta-Web/jsp/RcWebSimpleSearch.jsp.

The Panhandle Library Access Network site may be viewed at
http://www.flhiddentreasures.com/