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D-Lib
April 2007
Melissa McLimans |
D-Lib Featured Collection March 2007: University of Wisconsin Digital Collections The University of Wisconsin Digital Collections Center has added over a thousand audio files, nearly a thousand books, and dozens of videos over the past year, totaling over 320,000 new digital objects.   |
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
May 2006
Mankita, Meltzer & Harris |
A Handful of Things: Calisphere's Themed Collections from the California Digital Library The University of California, California Digital Library is developing and implementing strategies that will modify its university- and research-oriented digital collections to make them available to non-university audiences in an attractive and usable format. |
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. |
D-Lib
December 2004
Bonita Wilson |
By the People, For the People: Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943 The Library of Congress' By the People, For the People website offers much more than a collection of poster images. It sets the collection within a historical context, describing the purposes, processes, outcomes and legacy of the Federal Arts Project. |
Searcher
May 2002
David Mattison |
Images of History on the Web While one can use image search engines to retrieve historical photographs, the lack of precision caused by keyword searching and the limitations of the general search engines to target historic photographs lead to wasted time and effort. Other search strategies are described here... |
Searcher
Nov/Dec 2004
David Mattison |
Looking for Good Art Part 3: Glorious National Collections With an unimaginable wealth of art digitally accessible and preserved for us and future generations by art history institutions outside the U.S., the international Web of the Western art world is truly one of the most remarkable achievements of our digital age. Here links to directories and guides. |
D-Lib
July 2005
Walker & Saylor |
Kinematic Models for Design Digital Library Cornell University Library has built an innovative digital library for learning and teaching about kinematics (the geometry of pure motion) and the history and theory of machines. |
D-Lib
February 2008
Betsy Kruger |
Library of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The largest publicly funded university library in the country has long been engaged in state, national, and international efforts to make its resources accessible to scholars, students, and the general public. |
D-Lib
November 2006
Michael Foight |
D-Lib Featured Collection: November Digital Library @ Villanova University The Digital Library at Villanova University is an ambitious new collection of digital resources, created both to broaden access and to preserve materials for future generations. |
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
March 2000 |
American Memory Historical Collection Most of the items within American Memory are primary source documents such as photographs, manuscripts and maps; items which often provide a first hand view of life in the United States. |
D-Lib
September 2006
Cathy Sarli |
D-Lib Featured Collection September 2006: Deafness in Disguise: 19th and 20th Century Concealed Hearing Devices The Central Institute for the Deaf has a collection that contains over 400 hearing devices dating from 1796 and represents one of the largest collections in the world. |
D-Lib
September 2005
Lavoie et al. |
Anatomy of Aggregate Collections: The Example of Google Print for Libraries As mass digitization programs become more common, many are likely to originate within the library community itself, rather than through external organizations like Google. |
D-Lib
Nov/Dec 2012
Laurence Lannom |
Editorial We feature an extensive consideration of contextual metadata for cultural objects, visual interfaces for cultural heritage collections, the infrastructure needed to build upon and leverage open access 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. |
D-Lib
Nov/Dec 2009
Brian Lavoie |
Beyond 1923 Characteristics of potentially in-copyright print books in library collections. |
D-Lib
March 2003
Ian H. Witten |
Examples of Practical Digital Libraries: Collections Built Internationally Using Greenstone The Greenstone Digital Library Software provides a way of building and distributing digital library collections, opening up new possibilities for organizing information and making it available over the Internet or on CD-ROM. |
Information Today
February 4, 2013 |
EBSCO Releases eBook Public Library Collection eBook Public Library Collection includes more than 25,000 general reference ebook titles in a variety of subjects and topics including social sciences, language and literature, and science and technology. |
D-Lib
October 2006
Judith M. Panitch |
Digital Collections at the University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill The University Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is aggressively expanding its digital library program. |
D-Lib
Sep/Oct 2011
Neatrour et al. |
Automating the Production of Map Interfaces for Digital Collections Using Google APIs Many digital libraries are interested in taking advantage of the GIS mapping capabilities provided by Google Maps and Google Earth. |
D-Lib
September 2000
Andy Powell, Michael Heaney & Lorcan Dempsey |
RSLP Collection Description A description of an effort to develop a way to describe collections in a consistent and machine readable way that is applicable to physical and digital collections of all kinds, including library, art and museum materials. |
D-Lib
January 2006
Linden & Green |
Don't Leave the Data in the Dark: Issues in Digitizing Print Statistical Publications Statistical digitization projects must make investments in adequate metadata and object-oriented design at the point of digitization - otherwise, the data are in danger of losing their context |
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
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
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. |
D-Lib
October 2005
Leslie Johnston |
Development and Assessment of a Public Discovery and Delivery Interface for a Fedora Repository Internal design review of the interface of the Digital Library Repository and it's usability in classrooms and by faculty and staff. |
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... |
Information Today
July 28, 2011 |
Wellcome Library Partners With ProQuest to Digitize Early European Books The collection will be made available through ProQuest's new Early European Books database, a sister project to the Early English Books Online. |
D-Lib
September 2000
E.V. Brack, David Palmer & Bridget Robinson |
Collection Level Description - the RIDING and Agora Experience This article will examine the background and results of the eLib working group on CLDs and look at the implementation of CLDs in two of the eLib Phase 3 Library projects -- RIDING and Agora. |
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. |
Reason
April 2008
Katherine Mangu-Ward |
Artifact: Playing Tag After 208 years of keeping the privilege for itself, the Library of Congress posted 3,100 public-domain images on the commercial photo-sharing website Flickr and letting the America help categorize its sprawling collection. |
InternetNews
November 7, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
Microsoft to Scan Brit Books Scanning the collection of the prestigious British Library is a big job - and Microsoft wants to do it. |
Lucire
October 27, 2011 |
From Cleopatra to Safaris at London Fashion Week Katherine Thomson looks at the spring-summer 2012 collections from Fashion East, Holly Fulton, Marios Schwab and Unique |
D-Lib
January 2005
Fox, Manduca & Iverson |
Building Educational Portals atop Digital Libraries The Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College (SERC) educational portals leverage the techniques and tools of the digital library community to bring cohesion and clarity to their presentation of information. |
D-Lib
May/Jun 2012
Westbrook et al. |
Metadata Clean Sweep: A Digital Library Audit Project This paper discusses the pilot of an ongoing digital library metadata audit project that was collaboratively launched by library school interns and full-time staff to alleviate poor recall, poor precision and metadata inconsistencies across digital collections. |
Information Today
June 27, 2011
Barbara Quint |
The British Library Joins Google Books Google Books continues its march through the national libraries of Europe with the announcement of a deal with the British Library. |
D-Lib
July 2001 |
In Brief Visual Interfaces to Digital Libraries... Project ANGEL: Guidance and Guardianship for Networked UK Learners... The City of Los Angeles Spatial Index is Now Available on the Internet... Caltech Registers Two Repositories with the Open Archives Initiative... etc. |
Information Today
October 21, 2014 |
Historical Photography Collection Comes to Columbia University Columbia University Libraries/Information Services' Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library acquired the late Arthur Rothstein's collection of photography prints and negatives, and other materials. |
Searcher
October 2011
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - The Ideal Library In the best of all possible worlds, what would the best of all possible libraries look like? Who would it serve? What would it do? |
D-Lib
August 2009
Lourdi et al. |
Semantic Integration of Collection Description: Combining CIDOC/CRM and Dublin Core Collections Application Profile The research reveals the complexity of mapping metadata schemas to ontologies and resolves particular difficulties by presenting the crosswalk between Dublin Core Collections Application Profile and CIDOC/CRM. |
Information Today
December 19, 2013 |
National Library to Digitize Norway's Books The entire digital collection is available for researchers working on-site at the National Library. The library estimates that it will spend 20-30 years digitizing all titles. |
D-Lib
November 2002
Jinfang Niu |
A Metadata Framework Developed at the Tsinghua University Library to Aid in the Preservation of Digital Resources |
D-Lib
January 2003 |
In Brief Digital Library Federation Electronic Resource Management Initiative... Preserving the Chinese Internet: The DACHS Project... Introducing the Information Environment Service Registry... CRL Political Communications Archiving Investigation... etc. |
Registered Rep.
June 2, 2015
Carol Kroch |
Turning a Lifetime of Collecting into a Legacy There are essentially two main options for transferring a valued collection -- either passing it along to family or donating it to charity -- each with its own estate planning implications. |
D-Lib
May/Jun 2010
Xihui Zhen |
Overview of Digital Library Development in China The greatest challenges for Chinese national digital library projects are digital resource construction and a design of services provision. |
Lucire
April 1, 2009 |
Return of the Peacock Matthew Williamson is the latest designer to collaborate with H&M, taking his past collections as inspiration for spring 2009. |
D-Lib
June 2002
Paul Shabajee |
Primary Multimedia Objects and 'Educational Metadata' A fundamental dilemma for developers of multimedia archives. |
D-Lib
December 2004
Jia Liu |
Metadata Development in China: Research and Practice Chinese researchers and practitioners have now reached the point where metadata development and use have matured and become stable throughout the country's institutions. |
D-Lib
September 2000
Paul Miller |
Collected Wisdom: Some Cross-domain Issues of Collection Level Description The desire to describe collections of material is evident across all our memory institutions: libraries, museums, archives, and beyond. The importance of "the collection", however, and the manner by which it is most often described, differs. |
