Harvard library lab funds tech projects.(infotech)

The Harvard Library Lab was established in July 2010 to fund new information technology projects from Harvard students, faculty, and staff that aim to benefit libraries. In February, that promise came to fruition, when the lab announced its first ten projects, based on proposals submitted between August and December 2010.

Among the proposals backed in the first round are Highbrow, a tool that would allow for easier viewing and analysis of annotations in scholarly texts, and Deposit@Harvard, described as a "unified web-based interface deposit tool that enables the user to submit scholarship simultaneously to multiple internal and external repositories."

The lab, which …