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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 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
Mar/Apr 2011
Dulock & Long |
The Conference on World Affairs Archive Online: Digitization and Metadata for a Digital Audio Pilot In 2009 the University of Colorado Archives, together with other units of the CU Libraries and the offices of the Conference on World Affairs, began a project to digitize a substantial collection of audio recordings from the Conference. |
D-Lib
September 2004
Roxanne Missingham |
Reengineering a National Resource Discovery Service: MODS Down Under The reengineering of Kinetica is critical in supporting the Library's strategic goal of breaking down barriers to access to library collections and online resources. |
D-Lib
November 2000
Dale Flecker |
Harvard's Library Digital Initiative Building a First Generation Digital Library Infrastructure... |
D-Lib
Jul/Aug 2014
Gregory & Williams |
On Being a Hub: Some Details behind Providing Metadata for the Digital Public Library of America This article describes the technological side of being a service hub for the DPLA, from choosing metadata requirements and reviewing software, to the workflow used each month. |
D-Lib
February 2007
Coyle & Hillmann |
Resource Description and Access (RDA): Cataloging Rules for the 20th Century A rearrangement of the cataloging rules is not the right starting point for libraries. The library catalog has undergone considerable change from a simple finding list to an integrated database that serves both library management and user access functions. |
D-Lib
October 2001
William A. Garrison |
Retrieval Issues for the Colorado Digitization Project's Heritage Database The Colorado Digitization Project (CDP), begun in the fall of 1998, is a collaborative initiative involving Colorado's archives, historical societies, libraries, and museums... |
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
Nov/Dec 2010 |
D-Lib Magazine In Brief and In the News Linked Data for Climate Research... Project Cumulus - Getting Services from the Cloud... SURFACE Launch... etc. |
D-Lib
December 2007
Kaufman & Ubois |
Good Terms - Improving Commercial-Noncommercial Partnerships for Mass Digitization OCLC Programs and Research engaged Intelligent Television to study the partnership agreements between cultural institutions and for-profit companies for the mass digitization of books and other media. This report presents the findings of that study. |
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 |
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
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. |
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
June 2006
Zeng & Chan |
Metadata Interoperability and Standardization - A Study of Methodology Part II: Achieving Interoperability at the Record and Repository Levels Information professionals must give high priority to the task of creating and maintaining the highest feasible level of interoperability among extant and new information services. |
D-Lib
March 2001 |
In Brief Award to Penn State University Libraries to support an extensive study of digital image delivery... Digitization of Printed Material: The METAe Project... The Special Collections Virtual Reading Room... etc. |
D-Lib
October 2005
Mimno et al. |
Hierarchical Catalog Records: Implementing a FRBR Catalog Using the Perseus Digital Library catalog to explore the implications of using hierarchical catalog records for searching and browsing. |
Information Today
March 11, 2013
Marydee Ojala |
Bringing the Smithsonian to a Library Near You, Thanks to Cengage Learning A licensing agreement between the Smithsonian Institution and Gale, part of Cengage Learning, will see Gale digitizing some Smithsonian archives and creating searchable databases, available by subscription for libraries of all types. |
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
December 2004
David Green |
How Fares the Wired Museum? Report on the 32nd Annual Conference of the Museum Computer Network which has been a leading agent in museums' use of computers from improving operational efficiency to animating collections and connecting them to a wider world. |
D-Lib
February 2001
Kenneth Thibodeau |
Building the Archives of the Future Advances in Preserving Electronic Records at the National Archives and Records Administration... |
D-Lib
Jan/Feb 2015 |
In Brief and In the News The PERICLES Extraction Tool: Significant Environment Information Collection to Support Object Reuse... Jisc Digital Media Supporting Digitization Projects... The Avalon Media System... |
D-Lib
Jul/Aug 2011
Cynthia Tobar |
Music to My Ears: The New York Philharmonic Digital Archives The Philharmonic plans to digitize its entire collection of 8 million pages of documents and 7,000 hours of audio visual material, reflecting the Philharmonic's commitment to providing the broadest possible access to its collections. |
D-Lib
January 2000
Gail M. Hodge |
Best Practices for Digital Archiving: An Information Life Cycle Approach Digital information is fragile in ways that differ from traditional technologies, such as paper or microfilm. It is more easily corrupted or altered without recognition... |
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
January 2002
William Y. Arms |
A Spectrum of Interoperability The Site for Science Prototype for the NSDL... |
D-Lib
Jul/Aug 2014
DeRidder & Matheny |
What Do Researchers Need? Feedback On Use of Online Primary Source Materials A qualitative study of 11 humanities faculty researchers at the University of Alabama, describes and rates the importance of various issues encountered when using 29 participant-selected online databases. |
D-Lib
Nov/Dec 2013 |
In Brief and In the News Connecting Presidential Collections... The African American Theater History Project at the University of Minnesota Libraries... CrossRef Members add over a quarter million CrossMark records... |
D-Lib
Mar/Apr 2010 |
In Brief and In the News HumBox... CACAO project overview... Digital Classicist Summer Seminar Series 2010... The Wellcome Arabic Manuscript Cataloguing Partnership... Frontiers of science: Science fact in a comic strip... etc. |
D-Lib
Jan/Feb 2016
Nash & Wheeler |
Desktop Batch Import Workflow for Ingesting Heterogeneous Collections: A Case Study with DSpace 5 We describe a lightweight and easily adopted Python workflow for packaging heterogeneous collections in Simple Archive Format for batch ingest into DSpace. |
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
June 2007
Yakel et al. |
Creating the Next Generation of Archival Finding Aids Despite the transition from paper to electronic form, online finding aids retain much of the look and functionality of their paper counterparts. New online collaborative technologies, such as filtering and recommender systems, allow for new methods of interacting with and experiencing primary sources. |
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
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. |
Information Today
November 29, 2010 |
The Biodiversity Heritage Library Adds Records to WorldCat The Biodiversity Heritage Library is a consortium of major natural history museum libraries, botanical libraries, and research institutions organized to digitize, serve, and preserve the legacy literature of biodiversity. |
D-Lib
June 2009
Evens & Hauttekeete |
Unlocking Audio: Towards an Online Repository of Spoken Word Collections in Flanders Currently, Flanders lags behind other European regions when it comes to using innovative tools to facilitate access to its oral history collections. |
D-Lib
April 2004 |
In Brief Open GIS Consortium Online Standards Testing... The Xgrain II Project... DigiStates... In the News... etc. |
D-Lib
May 2003 |
In Brief The GLobal Access Management Project... DigitalWell: Streaming Media Asset Management... The Xtensible Past: XML as a Means for Easy Access to Historical Research Data and a Strategy for Digital Preservation... etc. |
D-Lib
Sep/Oct 2009
Middleton & Conner |
Volunteer Voices Volunteer Voices, Tennessee's statewide digitization program, promotes resource sharing among libraries. |
D-Lib
June 2006 |
Metadata Interoperability and Standardization - A Study of Methodology Part I: Achieving Interoperability at the Schema Level An analysis of the methods that have been used to achieve or improve interoperability among metadata schemas and applications, for the purposes of facilitating conversion and exchange of metadata and enabling cross-domain metadata harvesting and federated searches. |
D-Lib
Nov/Dec 2009
Kulovits et al. |
From TIFF to JPEG 2000? Preservation planning at the Bavarian State Library using a collection of digitized 16th century printings. |
D-Lib
Mar/Apr 2008
Branin et al. |
In Brief LIS Editors Launch Effort to Develop Best Practices for LIS Journals... Carolina Digital Library and Archives, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill... Help us make HILT's terminology services useful in your information service... etc. |
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 |
D-Lib
Sep/Oct 2008
Andres Imhof |
Using International Standards to Develop a Union Catalogue for Archives in Germany The project brings together in a collaborative portal the finding aids from archival records on SED (Socialist Unity Party of Germany) and FDGB (Free German Trade Union Federation) from five eastern German state archives. |
D-Lib
Mar/Apr 2013
Jacobs & Jacobs |
The Digital-Surrogate Seal of Approval: a Consumer-oriented Standard The word "digitization" hides more than it reveals. To know that a book has been digitized does not begin to tell librarians or users what they need to know. |
D-Lib
June 2000
Carol Ann Hughes |
Lessons Learned Digitization of Special Collections at The University of Iowa Libraries |
D-Lib
June 2002 |
Clips and Pointers The Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting: Protocol Version 2.0... Digital Imagery for Works of Art Final Report... Preservation Metadata and the OAIS Information Model: A Metadata Framework to Support the Preservation of Digital Objects... etc. |
D-Lib
Mar/Apr 2009
Dahlstrom & Doracic |
Digitization Education: Courses Taken and Lessons Learned The aims and nature of cultural heritage (CH) digitization education at The Swedish School of Library and Information Science (SSLIS), accompanied with a brief overview of Nordic CH digitization education efforts. |
D-Lib
September 2004
Erik Wilde |
In Brief A Tool for Bibliography Management and Sharing: The ShaRef Project... In the News: WEBLIS, an Integrated Library System based on CDS/ISIS, available free of charge from UNESCO and ICIE... Digital Information will never survive by accident... etc. |
