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The California Digital Library has released verion 2.1 of their eXtensible Text Framework (XTF), an open source, highly flexible software application that supports the search, browse and display of heterogeneous digital content. Highlights of this release include:

• Extensive interface improvements, including new search forms, built-in faceted browsing, and a new look and feel.
• Increased support for document and information exchange formats.
• XHTML and OAI-PMH output
• NLM article format indexing and output
• Microsoft Word indexing

Results of this JISC-funded study, which includes detailed case studies covering the Universities of Cambridge, King’s College London, Southampton, and the Archaeology Data Service (University of York), are now available at http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/publications/keepingresearchdatasafe..... Comments and feedback are welcome at http://blog.beagrie.com/archives/2008/05/14/just-published-research-data....