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D-Lib Nov/Dec 2013 Nakasone & Sheffield |
Descriptive Metadata for Field Books: Methods and Practices of the Field Book Project We explain the descriptive metadata used for field books, which share characteristics of museum, archives, and library objects, and explain why schemas were chosen, and how they are used. |
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2009 Gretchen Gueguen |
Joyner Library Digital Collections The Joyner Library Digital Collections home page maximizes browsing potential, offers selected featured items, a small subject cloud, and links to each collection, as well as provides a basic repository keyword search. |
D-Lib Nov/Dec 2011 Powell et al. |
A Semantic Registry for Digital Library Collections and Services This paper highlights some of the developments and challenges in developing registries. We then discuss how the Los Alamos National Laboratory's Research Library used current standards in an ad-hoc ontology to semantically describe services and collections. |
D-Lib May/Jun 2014 Wickett et al. |
Representing Cultural Collections in Digital Aggregation and Exchange Environments In this article, we present specific roles that collections can play in digital aggregations, representational requirements that arise from those roles, and modeling strategies for meeting the requirements. |
D-Lib Jan/Feb 2013 Webb et al. |
'Oh, you wanted us to preserve that?!' Statements of Preservation Intent for the National Library of Australia's Digital Collections Clarifying preservation intentions is likely to be a good starting point for preservation planning for diverse digital collections. |
Information Today August 26, 2014 |
The Getty Continues to Expand Access to Vocabularies The Getty Research Institute released the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names as linked open data. |
Information Today August 23, 2012 |
Access Innovations Teams With AIP for Semantic Enrichment Access Innovations, Inc. is working with the American Institute of Physics to semantically enrich AIP's online full-text collection comprising more than 800,000 scholarly articles published in its academic journals since the 1930s. |
Searcher September 2004 Dave Mattison |
Looking for Good Art: Web Resources and Image Databases, Part 1 Art images on the Web represent one of the first and last frontiers in terms of pools of knowledge: millions of historic art images served and more to come. Here are links to some of the best Web sites. |
D-Lib February 2001 Manfred Thaller |
From the Digitized to the Digital Library Many, if not most, digitization projects have aimed at existing collections as individual servers. A digital library, however, should be more than a digitized one... |
D-Lib Nov/Dec 2009 Leta hendricks |
Historic Costume and Textiles Collection The Ohio State University Historic Costume and Textiles Collection (HC&TC) is a scholarly and artistic resource of apparel and textile material culture for the Columbus academic, art, business, and cultural communities. |
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2011 Robert A. Schrier |
Digital Librarianship & Social Media: the Digital Library as Conversation Facilitator One of the ways digital librarians can cultivate a broader awareness of their collections is through social networking. |
D-Lib September 2001 |
In Brief HERON: Project into Service... CNRI Explores Maintenance of and Long-term Access to Computer Science Collections... LEAF - Linking and Exploring Authority Files... TermMaster: Software for Creating and Maintaining Thesauri and Ontologies... etc. |
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2010 Marcia Lei Zeng |
Report on the 2009 Joint CENDI/NKOS Workshop - Knowledge Organization Systems: Managing to the Future The themes include: toward a shared development environment, toward interoperability, and toward ontologies and the Semantic Web. |
D-Lib June 2008 Susan Schreibman |
D-Lib Featured Collection May/June 2008: University of Maryland Libraries Digital Collections In November 2007 University of Maryland Libraries announced its digital collections portal. |
Searcher October 2002 Richard Wiggins |
Beyond the Spider: The Accidental Thesaurus A robotic spider can be incredibly powerful and accurate -- or it can deliver a hit list full of irrelevant minutiae. Is it possible to offer the very best hits, specifically for those searches performed the most frequently? |
D-Lib Nov/Dec 2009 Traugott Koch |
Report on the 8th European Networked Knowledge Organization Systems/Services (NKOS) Workshop The workshop discussed approaches to the management of knowledge organization systems that support emerging and future requirements. |
D-Lib October 2001 Ian H. Witten |
Greenstone: Open-Source Digital Library Software The Greenstone digital library software is an open-source system for the construction and presentation of information collections. It builds collections with effective full-text searching and metadata-based browsing facilities that are attractive and easy to use... |
Information Today January 5, 2012 |
Alexander Street Press Launches Two New Collections Classical Scores Library is composed mostly of in-copyright classical scores from major composers and Anthropology Online, is a resource that at completion will contain more than 100,000 pages of written ethnographies and more. |
D-Lib June 2005 Michalak, Madsen & Hurst |
The Open Collections Program Harvard resources that are digitized using the program are organized by topic, enabling interested people worldwide to easily access relevant information. |
Information Today September 10, 2013 |
Credo Enhances Its Subject and Publisher Collections Librarians now have even more reference options from Credo with the launch of 19 new and updated Subject and Publisher Collections. |
Information Today February 7, 2013 Barbara Quint |
Reveal Digital Looks to Digitize Special Collections A new company, Reveal Digital, offers a service to libraries under a new cost-recovery revenue model aimed at permanent archiving and open access. |
Lucire August 29, 2011 Ian MacKintosh |
Lucire Living: Fashion: illustrated Peruvian artist and fashion stylist Gerardo Larrea talks about his distinctive style. |
Information Today March 21, 2011 |
New National Portal to Historic Collections American Heritage and the American Association for State and Local History are developing a new National Portal to Historic Collections, a system that allows searches through dozens of historic collections. |
Macworld November 2003 Charles Purdy |
Visual Thesaurus 2.0 Reference program no match for its paper counterpart |
Financial Planning September 1, 2010 Matthew F. Erskine |
The Collector's Dilemma Planners and advisors need to learn how to recognize when their clients have reached the tipping point between investor and collector. |
ONLINE May/Jun 2011 Marydee Ojala |
Words to the Wise The strain of finding just the right word, whether it's for an article or a search statement, is not the most satisfying of endeavors. In fact, it can be hugely frustrating. Sometimes it's not as enjoyable as we'd like. |
D-Lib June 2009 Cindy Boeke |
Southern Methodist University's Digital Collections Bringing Central University Libraries' Special Collections to the World |
D-Lib June 2005 Neil Beagrie |
Plenty of Room at the Bottom? Personal Digital Libraries and Collections Private digital collections will lead to a wide variety of services, allowing for security, information management, and publishing. |
Financial Planning April 1, 2008 Suzanne McGee |
Bit by the Collecting Bug Whether they're ancient Greek vases or Pez dispensers, clients' ties to the items they have collected is of a completely different order from those of their stock, bond or fund holdings. |