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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 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. |
Information Today
June 4, 2012 |
EBSCO to Distribute AP Images Collection to Libraries EBSCO has been named the sole library distributor of the AP Images, the commercial photo unit of AP. It is one of the world's largest collections of historical and contemporary imagery. |
Information Today
April 8, 2013 |
New York Public Library Announces Digital Collections API For the first time, significant portions of the library's digitized collections are available as machine-readable data: more than 1 million objects and records for anyone to search, crawl, and compute. |
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
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. |
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. |
D-Lib
May 2004
Beaman, et al. |
Determining Space from Place for Natural History Collections: In a Distributed Digital Library Environment Geospatial referencing is one of the new technologies that promises to unlock the biological and geographical knowledge contained in the world's natural history collections. |
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
Sep/Oct 2009
Middleton & Conner |
Volunteer Voices Volunteer Voices, Tennessee's statewide digitization program, promotes resource sharing among libraries. |
D-Lib
October 2001 |
Comparative Mammalian Brain Collection The Comparative Mammalian Brain Collection web site provides site visitors with images and information from several of the world's largest collections of well-preserved, sectioned and stained brains of mammals... |
Information Today
August 15, 2013 |
The Getty Offers Open Access Options The J. Paul Getty Trust is making its digital images available to the masses. One of the aims of the Getty institution is to promote the visual arts to the public so they are easily understood and accessible. |
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
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 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). |
Information Today
January 6, 2011 |
National Archives Launches Online Public Access System The public portal provides access to digitized records, and information about the records. It also provides a centralized means of searching multiple National Archives resources at once. |
Information Today
June 30, 2008 |
EBSCO and ATLA Create Digital Archives for Purchase EBSCO Publishing announced that it has partnered with the American Theological Library Association to create digital archive collections of historical monographs and serials for purchase by libraries and other institutions. |
Information Today
April 26, 2012 |
Millions of Harvard Library Catalog Records Publicly Available The Harvard Library announced it would make more than 12 million catalog records from Harvard's 73 libraries publicly available. |
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. |
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. |
D-Lib
September 2005 |
Social Terminology Enhancement through Vernacular Engagement: Exploring Collaborative Annotation to Encourage Interaction with Museum Collections Museums have seen an opportunity to move beyond uni-directional communication into an environment that engages their users and reflects a multiplicity of perspectives. |
Information Today
June 28, 2012
Katherine Allen |
New European Library Portal Launched The European Library is a new discovery service that provides access to the collections of the national libraries of 46 European countries, plus a growing number of research libraries. |
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
Jul/Aug 2015
Ying & Shulman |
"Bottled or Tap?" A Map for Integrating International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) into Shared Shelf and Artstor A community of library technologists set out to design a set of protocols for calling, ordering, and using image files in standardized ways resulting in The International Image Interoperability Framework. |
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
June 2009
Cindy Boeke |
Southern Methodist University's Digital Collections Bringing Central University Libraries' Special Collections to the World |
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. |
Information Today
March 16, 2009 |
Flickr Collection Debuts on GettyImages.com Getty Images and Flickr, a Yahoo!, Inc. announced the launch of the Flickr Collection, a creative imagery collection now available exclusively on gettyimages.com for commercial licensing. |
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. |
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
September 2002 |
Australian Museums & Galleries Online Australian Museums & Galleries Online serves as a portal to Australia's cultural heritage, providing a single web site entry point to a large percentage of Australia's museums and galleries, as well as preserving and promoting Australia's cultural identity worldwide. |
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. |
Information Today
June 26, 2008 |
EBSCO and ATLA to Create Digital Archives for Purchase EBSCO Publishing has partnered with American Theological Library Association to provide new collections of historical monographs and serials in digital format |
Science News
February 14, 2009
Sid Perkins |
Book Review: Dry Storeroom No. 1: The Secret Life Of The Natural History Museum By Richard Fortey Museums are more than collections of art and artifacts: They're collections of the people who work there. |
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
November 2002 |
D-Lib Featured Collection November 2002: Digital Morphology The Digital Morphology Library at the University of Texas is an archive providing access to HRCT data on over 100 species of plants and animals. |
D-Lib
November 2000
Dale Flecker |
Harvard's Library Digital Initiative Building a First Generation Digital Library Infrastructure... |
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. |
Information Today
August 26, 2010 |
The British Library to Offer Free Access to Bibliographic Records The U.K. national library has around 14 million catalogue records comprising a wealth of bibliographic data. The initiative will help expose this vast dataset to users worldwide. |
D-Lib
January 2002
Nuala A. Bennett |
Illinois Digital Cultural Heritage Community Collaborative interactions among libraries, museums and elementary schools... |
Information Today
November 20, 2008 |
LIFE's Photo Archive Available on Google Time, Inc. has announced that access to LIFE's photo archive -- more than 10 million images in total -- will be available on a new hosted image service from Google. |
D-Lib
December 2005
Bonita Wilson |
Global Gateway: World Culture & Resources The Library of Congress Global Gateway provides access to the World Digital Library (WDL) which offers international cultural digital resources available via the Internet worldwide. |
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
May 2002 |
In Brief Forum on Information Standards in Heritage Launches New Web Site... The Tibetan and Himalayan Digital Library... Scholars Portal Project Launched... Archiving the Avant Garde: Documenting and Preserving Variable Media Art... Remaking Libraries for the Global Knowledge Renaissance... etc. |
D-Lib
Mar/Apr 2010
Waibel et al. |
Museum Data Exchange: Learning How to Share The Museum Data Exchange, a project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, brought together nine art museums and OCLC Research to model data sharing in the museum community. |
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
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
October 2002
Fox et al. |
Toward a Global Digital Library: Generalizing US-Korea Collaboration on Digital Libraries A report on recommendations to remove barriers to worldwide development of digital libraries, drawing upon an August 2000 workshop involving researchers from the US and Korea who met at the San Diego Supercomputer Center. |
D-Lib
June 2006 |
D-Lib Featured Collection June 2006: Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation A new database from the Smithsonian's Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation will show the public where to find thousands of invention-related documents and collections. |
