Digital Library Development Library and Information Science Libraries

Digital Library Development Library and Information Science Libraries

Digital Library Development

This category is for sites detailing the digitization of traditional library resources, such as books and journals and extends to images, cd-rom, microfilm and audio-visual materials. Coverage includes digital collection management and techniques pertaining to library digitization.

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- A G-7 global information society pilot project to provide access to the major works of the world's scientific and cultural heritage.
- Resources and projects funded by the National Science Foundation.
- A report by Louis A. Pitschmann that identifies and synthesizes existing practices used in developing collections of free third-party Internet resources that support higher education and research.
- Toward a User-Centered Approach to Digital Libraries, the Conference on Users in the Electronic Information Environments is held in Espoo, Finland.
- Provided by the OCLC Digitization & Preservation Outreach Center, this site hosts information about copyright, digitization, grants assistance, preservation and news and events.
- A collection of resources created by graduate students at the School of Information Science and Learning Technologies (SISLT) at the University of Missouri-Columbia.
- From the Northeast Document Conservation Center, a manual for preservation and access, 1st edition, edited by Maxine K. Sitts.
- Supports the academic community on the creation, storage and delivery of image-related information, and also offers digitisation advice.
- The center provides specific user communities with access to advanced technologies, services, expertise and knowledge with courses for librarians, archivists, scholars and technicians. The site is available in English and Italian.
- List of more than 400 references to articles about online or virtual reference services by Bernie Sloan from the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois.
- A NSF/ARPA/NASA-sponsored project incorporating basic research, system building, deployment, and evaluation of a usable digital library. The UMDL provides access to significant public domain collections of scientific data and information.
- 3rd Edition of the report by Dr. Peter Noerr, sponsored by Sun Microsystems in PDF format.
- Established to explore technologies and the building of digital collections to expand access to and use of cultural and scientific sources on campus and globally. List of current image collections and projects, services and events offered, overview of lab
- Projects at the University of Minnesota.
- Program documents from the National Library of Australia.
- Paper discusses the hybrid library model of information provision, outlining a number of eLib funded projects and covering key technological and managerial issues.
- Site includes information about the project, services, collections and technologies as well as a seminar series provided to students.
- Centre based at Tilburg University, the Netherlands, whose primary activities include consultancy and organising an annual international summer school, and other courses and seminars.
- A peer reviewed e-journal supported by the British Computer Society and Oxford University Press.
- The forum hosts a working group on metrics, a test suite for online research and list of further references. The web magazine is published monthly and covers news, innovation and research.
- List of references originally compiled by Steven Ketchpel at Stanford University, forms part of a collection of bibliographies of scientific literature in computer science.
- For digital library researchers, developers and librarians, hosted by the IFLA.
- Institute based at the University of Middlesex working on various funded projects concerning the design and use of Digital Libraries.
- The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) publication No 120 provides a summary and analysis of more than 200 recent research publications that focus on the use of electronic library resources, published between 1995 and 2003.
- A joint project between MIT Libraries and Hewlett-Packard to provide stable long-term storage for the intellectual output of MIT faculty and researchers using open-source software. Site includes mission, policy, technology description and download, implem
- Established in 1995 at Texas A&M University and builds upon research developed in the Hypermedia Research Laboratory established in 1987. Includes research, publications, events and course information.
- Supporting research and projects furthering the development of digital libraries. Includes links to projects, tools, and resources.
- Provides materials from East Central Illinois museums and libraries in support of elementary school social studies curricula, as well as workshops and training materials to help teachers integrate materials into class exercises.
- Research project to investigate the nature, manifestations, and behavior of successive users in digital environments, and to derive criteria for use in the design of information retrieval interfaces and systems supporting successive searching behavior.
- Building digital collections at the Library of Congress.
- Mailing list to support the eVALUEd project and enable discussion of issues concerning the evaluation of electronic library initiatives.
- Electronic journal containing information on research and use of digital libraries.
- A forum that seeks to assume a leadership role in disseminating practice and building consensus amongst individuals and agencies active in digitization and online dissemination of cultural heritage resources.
- Workshop and conference proceedings from the University of Library and Information Science, Tsukuba Science City, Japan. Also available in Japanese.
- An initiative funded by the European Commission's Information Society Technologies 5th Framework Programme (IST-FP5) to support and encourage research activities.
- Collection of links provided by the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA).
- Established at King's College London in September 2003, KDCS carries out research and provides fee-based consultancy services in the area of digitisation and digital resource management. The site includes project examples, consultancy information and rese
- An initiative funded by the European Union's Information Society Technologies 6th Framework Programme to integrate and coordinate ongoing research activities within Europe and disseminate knowledge.
- BASE provides integrated access to distributed collections of various type and format (digitised collections, institutional repositories, pre-print-servers, electronic journals etc.) by applying search engine technology in the context of scholarly search-
- Aims to secure the preservation of digital resources in the UK. Includes background information on the coalition, their program of work, details of their administration, how interested parties can participate, and the full-text of the Preservation of Dig
- A UK-based centre to support expertise and practice in data curation and digital preservation across communities of practice.
- Martha Brogan provides an overview of a diverse set of more than thirty digital library aggregation services, organizes them into functional clusters and then evaluates them more fully from the perspective of an informed user.
- Guide to full-text collections and resources, including software tools and standards by the British Columbia Community Networks Association; also dedicated to the digitization and storage of local publications.
- The Digital Libraries Initiatives Group and the Library Information Systems Team of the University of Arizona merged in May 2003 and now coordinates digital development through the use of a Twiki online group.
- A pilot project to develop digital collection, storage, and distribution strategies for multimedia anthropological information from the Himalayan region.
- Hosted by the National Library of Australia and directed by an international advisory group, PADI provides access to a wide range of digital preservation resources.
- guidance in the digital representation and management of cultural heritage materials by the Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII), University of Glasgow, and the National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage.
- Allows individual libraries to safeguard their community's access to Web content. Project funded by Stanford University, The National Science Foundation, and Sun Microsystems.
- Interdisciplinary environment designed to address research and educational issues relevant to development, understanding and implementation.
- A selection of Columbia Information Services digital projects and initiatives.
- Research at Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science to achieve machine understanding of video and film media, including all aspects of search, retrieval, visualization and summarization.
- An initiative to assist archives, historical societies, and libraries digitize and provide coordinated access to valuable information resources reflecting the cultural heritage of Minnesota.
- A guide to major decision points in planning a digital project, ranging from administrative factors to technology concerns to financial management.
- Reports, presentations, publications and information from the project at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
- An alliance of Canadian libraries and organizations to promote, coordinate and facilitate the development of collections and services. Site contains general information with links to members' projects and further resources; also available in French.
- A collaborative project led by King's College with partners in Oxford University and the University of Southampton.
- Communications company based in San Diego, focused on digital library technologies including complete turn-key solutions and customized services. Main clients include IEEE, Springer-Verlag, and ACM.
- A Swedish company based in Stockholm that delivers software solutions for virtual browsing with touch screen technology, publishes rare books and develops Internet based services for mediation.
- Development of a European Service for Information on Research and Education. This project ran from July 1998 until June 2000 and was a collaboration between partners at ten institutions from four European countries. Site includes publications, handbook an
- Provides expertise and consultants for the creation and management of digital resources to museums, libraries and cultural organisations in the UK.
- Digital Culture (DigiCULT) is a 30-month European funded project to monitor and assess existing and emerging technologies to benefit the cultural heritage sector between March 2002 and August 2004. The site includes reports, current awareness, events and
- Planning information, project examples, publications and links at North Carolina State University.
- Report on a selection of papers presented in Washington at the 2001 IFLA pre-conference for the Section of Libraries for the Blind (SLB).
- Information Sciences and Technologies Laboratory. Project areas include Human-Document Interaction (HDI), Natural Language Theory and Technology (NLTT), Quantitative Content Analysis, Sparrow Web, Statistical Pattern and Image Analysis, and User Interface
- Proceedings of the international conference organised by UKOLN, held 16th and 17th June 1997, London. Full text provides broad historical perspective.
- Article discusses reasons to include Internet-based resources in a science and technology library collection.
- Promotes research in the theory and practice of all aspects of Collective Memory, established in 1997 by the IEEE Computer Society.
- Documents and information on the design and implementation of the infrastructure and services needed for collaboratively creating, disseminating, sharing and managing information.
- Report describes methods and tools created to assist the staff of subject gateways to develop and maintain their quality control systems.
- Based at the University of North Carolina, the center is interested in the migration, management, and accessibility of digital information. It serves as a test bed for the development of new methodologies and also focuses on training and education by coll
- Program information and resources for the Library of Congress digitization programs.
- Describes the Digital Libraries Initiative and focuses on how management can implement it.
- Developing the means of creating, maintaining, expanding, and preserving a distributed collection of digital materials.
- Provides users and developers of the National Science Digital Library with an online collaborative area, including public workspaces, discussion forums, and support.
- A collaborative initiative to provide access to the unique collections of local archives, historical societies, libraries, and museums. Includes guidelines, standards, resources and links to further information.
- Section 6.2 of the list of references by Charles W. Bailey, Jr. based at the University of Houston Libraries.
- A registry of projects, provided jointly by the University of Illinois and the Association of Research Libraries with predominantly US-based submissions.
- Project based at the University of Central England to develop a transferable evaluation model for e-library developments, which began in December 2001 and completed in May 2004. There is a link to the evaluation toolkit from the homepage.

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