Welcome to ResCartaWeb!

ResCartaWeb is a browser-based application for accessing your ResCarta-format digital materials within the familiar environment of a web browser. You may use ResCartaWeb to browse titles, perform a simple search of your digital materials, review search results, view documents, and find text within the current document.

ResCartaWeb presents a Browse view which lists all objects in a collection with a selection of object metadata. The application also has a simple search function that allows the user to enter a word or phase. Executing the search results in a list of "hits" presented to the user.

From either the browse list or the hit list, a user can pick an object to view. The ResCartaWeb viewer presents the image file and a navigation bar that allows for the selection of a particular page in the object, the selection of a page containing a hit, the ability to search for terms within the selected object as well as page zoom and rotate controls. ResCaraWeb also provides an online help system that is available from each page.

Open Source Toolkit

ResCartaWeb is part of the open source ResCarta® Toolkit – a collection of software tools that allow you to build and organize ResCarta-compliant data from your digital collections. The ResCarta Toolkit is licensed under the Apache License Version 2.0. A copy of the license is available at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.

View a Sample ResCartaWeb Application

In order to show how the ResCarta toolkit might be useful to you, we have placed a small collection of ResCarta data on our server for you to examine. The sample is a single collection consisting of thirty city directories from the Hannibal Free Public Library that the library had digitized to allow greater access.

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 software
Additional 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 ResCarta Foundation, Inc. would like to thank the Hannibal Free Public Library for allowing us to use their data to demonstrate ResCartaWeb.