"iVia is an open source Internet subject portal or virtual library system. As a hybrid expert and machine built collection creation and management system, it supports a primary, expert-created, first-tier collection that is augmented by a large, second-tier collection of significant Internet resources that are automatically gathered and described. iVia has been developed by and is the platform for INFOMINE, a scholarly virtual library collection of over 26,000 librarian-created and 80,000 plus machine-created records describing and linking to academic Internet resources.

The software enables institutions to work cooperatively or individually to provide well-organized, virtual library collections of metadata descriptions of Internet and other resources, as well as rich full-text harvested from these resources. iVia is powerful, flexible and customizable to the needs of single or multiple institutions. It is designed to help virtual libraries scale. This article describes the results of the last four years of work on iVia as funded by the National Leadership grant program of the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education (U.S. Department of Education), and the Library of the University of California, Riverside.

A more detailed description of this software is available in the January 2003 D-Lib Magazine at http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january03/mitchell/01mitchell.html.

All are welcome to use this software. Projects interested in working together or collaborating on co-development of systems or virtual library collection content building should contact Steve Mitchell, Project Director, at smitch@ucrac1.ucr.edu."

This is interesting - I'll have to try to look at the description later, though.