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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
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
November 2000
Dale Flecker |
Harvard's Library Digital Initiative Building a First Generation Digital Library Infrastructure... |
Information Today
July 27, 2009 |
New OCLC Gateway Service Increases Web Visibility of Digital Collections The WorldCat Digital Collection Gateway offers libraries a self-service tool to easily upload metadata from their unique digital content to WorldCat, the world's largest online resource for finding items held in libraries. |
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
April 2003
Staples et al. |
The Fedora Project An Open-source Digital Object Repository Management System |
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
Sep/Oct 2014
Saskia van Bergen |
Connecting Systems for Better Services Around Special Collections Over the last few years, several projects to improve physical and digital access to special collections have been undertaken by Leiden University Libraries in the Netherlands. |
Information Today
March 5, 2012
Victoria McCargar |
Viewshare: Up Close and Personal With Your Digital Treasures Back in November 2011, the Library of Congress blogged about a new online service called Viewshare, a web domain where cultural heritage institutions can show off their digital treasures free of charge. |
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
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. |
D-Lib
January 2006
Martin Kalfatovic |
Galaxy of Knowledge: Art & Design Galaxy of Knowledge, is Smithsonian Institution Libraries' portal to its collections and to a wide array of exceptional Internet resources. |
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
January 2003
Richard Rinehart |
MOAC A Report on Integrating Museum and Archive Access in the Online Archive of California |
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. |
D-Lib
February 2008
Datema et al. |
In Brief Getting the most out of your institutional repository... Science assets of the digital age at risk... Linus Pauling and the International Peace Movement: a documentary history... etc. |
D-Lib
June 2009
Cindy Boeke |
Southern Methodist University's Digital Collections Bringing Central University Libraries' Special Collections to the World |
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... |
D-Lib
October 2007
Ann Lally |
University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections Materials in the University's Digital Collections are diverse and reflect the strength of the UW Libraries collections. Particularly noteworthy collections include: American Indians of the Pacific Northwest Database... etc. |
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
November 2005
Ed Galloway |
Historic Pittsburgh Image Collections The Historic Pittsburgh Image Collections is part of the Historic Pittsburgh web site hosted by the University of Pittsburgh's Digital Research Library (DRL). |
D-Lib
Jul/Aug 2000
Thornton Staples & Ross Wayland |
Virginia Dons FEDORA: A Prototype for a Digital Object Repository After shopping for a digital library system unsuccessfully, in 1999 we created a digital library research and development group and set about creating the system that we need. |
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
Cristina & Daniel Tofan |
A Low Cost, Low Memory Footprint, SQL and Servlet-based Solution for Searching Archived Images and Documents in Digital Collections A simple, elegant solution to digitizing special collections documents to meet the needs of the institution without additional monetary commitments. |
D-Lib
January 2002
William Y. Arms |
A Spectrum of Interoperability The Site for Science Prototype for the NSDL... |
Information Today
July 1, 2002
Richard W. Wiggins |
OCLC Extends Digital Library Offerings OCLC continues its push into the digital library software and services market with two recent announcements. |
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
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. |
Information Today
November 4, 2010 |
University of Pittsburgh Library System Joins HathiTrust This library is the newest member of HathiTrust, a partnership of major academic and research libraries collaborating in a digital library initiative to preserve and provide access to the published record in digital form. |
Information Today
April 7, 2011 |
Alexander Street Press Announces Video Publishing Plan for 2011 Already the publisher of 10 distinct, discipline-specific streaming video collections containing more than 8,000 films, Alexander Street intends to expand its offerings rapidly -- to more than 10,000 titles in 2011 and to 20,000 by 2013 |
D-Lib
Jul/Aug 2014
Neatrour et al. |
The SIMP Tool: Facilitating Digital Library, Metadata, and Preservation Workflow at the University of Utah's J. Willard Marriott Library This article presents a case study of the Submission Information Metadata Packaging tool developed at the University of Utah's J. Willard Marriott Library. |
D-Lib
May/Jun 2007
Peter Kosewski |
Digital Technology Opens Harvard's Library Collections to the World Visitors to the Harvard Libraries web site can find and use thousands of individual digital materials from the Harvard collections. |
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
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. |
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... |
D-Lib
November 2005
Lagoze et al. |
What Is a Digital Library Anyway? Beyond Search and Access in the NSDL We are now in the adolescence of digital libraries. Like any adolescence, there is reason for optimism and concern. |
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
May/Jun 2011
Wolski et al. |
Building an Institutional Discovery Layer for Virtual Research Collections This paper describes a nationally funded Australian university initiative to build a research repository which feeds data into both a national research data service and university library discovery tools. Challenges and benefits are discussed. |
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
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
February 2006
Erika Dowell |
D-Lib Featured Collection February 2006: The Lilly Library The Lilly Library, like other special collections libraries, is poised between the print and the digital worlds. |
D-Lib
October 2001
Brewster Kahle |
Public Access to Digital Material The goal of universal access to our cultural heritage is within our grasp. With current digital technology we can build comprehensive collections, and with digital networks we can make these available to students and scholars all over the world... |
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
Mar/Apr 2008
Lisa A. Mix |
The UCSF Japanese Woodblock Print Collection The UCSF Library and Center for Knowledge Management holds the most extensive collection of Japanese woodblock prints on the subject of health and medicine in the United States. |
Information Today
October 14, 2014 |
Intota Assessment Streamlines Collection Analysis ProQuest updated its Intota Assessment data analysis tool with title-linking functionality that helps academic libraries manage their collections while using the Resources for College Libraries list. |
D-Lib
Mar/Apr 2015
Moulaison et al. |
OpenDOAR Repositories and Metadata Practices In spring 2014, authors from the University of Missouri conducted a nation-wide survey on metadata practices among United States-based OpenDOAR repositories |
Information Today
November 24, 2008
Susanne Bjorner |
Europeana.eu Launches--Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well, but Temporarily Speechless The European Union-funded collaboration provides free access to some 2 million digital objects from libraries, museums, archives, and audio-visual collections in 27 member European countries. |
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
August 2007
Gano & Linden |
Government Information in Legacy Formats: Scaling a Pilot Project to Enable Long-Term Access An "open repository" model would allow institutions to approach archiving tasks and sets of CD-ROMs in different ways. |
D-Lib
Sep/Oct 2015
Parilla & Blase |
The Value of Flexibility on Long-term Value of Grant Funded Projects The Field Book Project is an initiative to increase accessibility to field book content that documents natural history. |
