Supporting TAMU scholarship,
Preserving TAMU's legacy

Mission

The Digital Initiatives group within the Texas A&M University Libraries is a hybrid organization, charged with both conducting research into cutting-edge digital library technologies, as well as providing various services to the TAMU Library community.

This twofold charter can be seen clearly in the projects to which we devote our time. Ventures such as the DSpace XMLUI project represent the research end of our efforts, while the collections we maintain in the TAMU Institutional Repository, TxSpace, is a good example of a services we provide to the university community, cataloguing and preserving scholarly data for TAMU researchers.

Collaborating with leaders in digital library research

DSpace is an open-source digital asset repository system originally created by MIT and HP. The XMLUI project aims to bring XML-XSL themeing capabilities to DSpace, and the primary developer for this project sits on the DSpace committer's group.

Creating a new environment for scholarly communication

The services that DI provides to the TAMU research community are heavily geared toward supporting scholarly communication. The Journal of Digital Information is an example of an online scholarly journal, currently published by Texas A&M and maintained by Digital Initiatives.

History

The Digital Initiatives group was formed in May of 2004, and moved to its present location on the sixth floor of Evans Library in September of that year. Digital Initiatives has gradually added staff since that time, growing to its current size.