Overview: TED (TEmplated Database)

What is TED?
Who can use TED?
Harvard collections using TED

What is TED?

TED (TEmplated Database) is a hosting service that provides an online home for specialized collections catalogs which do not fit within the scope of existing Harvard catalog systems: HOLLIS Catalog (library bibliographic data), VIA (cultural heritage images), OASIS (manuscript and archival finding aids), and HGL (geospatial data).

Using XML technology, TED allows a curator to create a standard database for a collection, define a structured data format, and easily customize screens and parameters for search and display. This data can be maintained directly in TED or batch loaded from an external source. TED offers a web-based public interface that enables end-users to search, browse, view result sets, and retrieve records for items in a collection, as well as link out to digital objects when such links are provided.

Read more about TED in the TED User Guide.

Who can use TED?

Any Harvard organizational entity is eligible to use TED. Harvard organizations outside the library system are eligible if sponsored by a Harvard library. Individual members of the Harvard community are also welcome with the sponsorship of a Harvard library.

A collection being considered for TED must consist of library-like materials with long-term intellectual or curatorial value. Collections described in TED can belong to any academic discipline, subject domain, etc. There are no limits on the types of elements or vocabulary used.

Read more about TED eligibility guidelines.
Learn how to request participation in TED.

Harvard collections using TED

Archived Harvard University Online Course Catalogs (A-Cats):
http://hul.harvard.edu/rmo/a-cats/index.html

Biomedical Image Library:
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.eresource:bioimlib

Harvard Iranian Oral History Project:
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.eresource:iohpdigi

MCZ Ernst Mayr Library Artwork Collection:
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.eresource:mczartco

Milman Parry Collection:
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.eresource:milparco