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D-Lib
May 2004
Linda Hill |
Georeferencing in Digital Libraries What the digital library perspective toward georeferencing is and the application of georeferencing to all types of information and the integration of geospatial description, searching, and analysis into digital library practices.   |
D-Lib
May 2004
Michael F. Goodchild |
The Alexandria Digital Library Project: Review, Assessment, and Prospects Why the Alexandria Digital Library (ADL) was established, how it progressed, and how the vision of ADL continues to evolve. |
D-Lib
May 2004 |
Spatial Data Infrastructures and Digital Libraries: Paths to Convergence In a knowledge based economy, the effective use of geographic information (GI) is of critical importance (including a wide range of spatially referenced or referenceable resources). |
D-Lib
Sep/Oct 2011
Oehrli et al. |
MapRank: Geographical Search for Cartographic Materials in Libraries A web-based geographical search system (geosearch), which analyzes the geographical coordinates of MARC21 field 034, has been developed for the Swiss research portal for maps. |
D-Lib
May 2004
Buckland & Lancaster |
Combining Place, Time, and Topic: The Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative The Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative's (ECAI) mission is to promote an international collaborative effort to transform humanities scholarship through use of the digital environment to share data and by placing greater emphasis on the notions of place and time. |
D-Lib
Mar/Apr 2015
Justin B. Sorensen |
Reconstructing the Past Through Utah Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps: A Geospatial Approach to Library Resources This article describes the Digital Scholarship Lab's endeavor to convert these valuable resources into research driven geospatial datasets, providing a new format for how the library information is presented. |
D-Lib
Nov/Dec 2012
Fleet et al. |
Georeferencer: Crowdsourced Georeferencing for Map Library Collections The Georeferencer application is a collaborative online project allowing crowdsourced georeferencing of map images. It builds upon a number of related technologies that use existing zoomable images from library web servers. |
D-Lib
June 2004
Norbert Lossau |
Search Engine Technology and Digital Libraries: Libraries Need to Discover the Academic Internet If libraries do not want to become marginalized in a key area of their traditional services, they need to acknowledge the challenges that come with the globalization of scholarly information, the existence and further growth of the academic internet . |
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 2010
Powell et al. |
Semantically Enhancing Collections of Library and Non-Library Content Many digital libraries have not made the transition to semantic digital libraries, and often with good reason. |
D-Lib
March 2004
Lin Fang |
A Developing Search Service: Heterogeneous Resources Integration and Retrieval System This article describes two approaches for searching heterogeneous resources, which are explained as they are used in two corresponding existing systems--RIRS (Resource Integration Retrieval System) and HRUSP (Heterogeneous Resource Union Search Platform). On analyzing the existing systems, a possible framework--the MUSP (Multimetadata-Based Union Search Platform) is presented. |
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
Sep/Oct 2012
Kalev H. Leetaru |
Fulltext Geocoding Versus Spatial Metadata for Large Text Archives: Towards a Geographically Enriched Wikipedia The rise of "born geographic" information and the increasing creation and mediation of information in a spatial context has given rise to a demand for extracting and indexing the spatial information in large textual archives. |
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
June 2001
Linda L. Hill |
A Content Standard for Computational Models There are no generally accepted procedures for describing computational models in ways that support cataloging, search, selection, and use. In this paper, we propose a content standard for describing computational models... |
D-Lib
December 2006
Manduca et al. |
Digital Library as Network and Community Center: A Successful Model for Contribution and Use Some key approaches that have been successful for the Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College (SERC) in engaging geoscience educators, both as contributors and users in the Teach the Earth library. |
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
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
February 2008 |
Interoperability for Searching Learning Object Repositories: The ProLearn Query Language A crucial problem faced by the learning community is how to produce and deliver quality content for online learning experiences. |
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 2002
William Y. Arms |
A Spectrum of Interoperability The Site for Science Prototype for the NSDL... |
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
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
January 2001
Carl Lagoze |
Keeping Dublin Core Simple Cross-Domain Discovery or Resource Description? |
D-Lib
February 2002 |
Clips and Pointers ERCIM News special issue on e-government... Archiving Electronic Publications: A report of the NISO/BISG... Internet Scout Project reports... Preservation Management of Digital Materials: A Handbook... Cybersecurity Today and Tomorrow: Pay Now or Pay Later... etc. |
D-Lib
Jul/Aug 2000
Gregory Crane |
Designing Documents to Enhance the Performance of Digital Libraries: Time, Space, People and a Digital Library on London In a mature digital library (DL), documents should coexist with a Geographic Information System (GIS). |
D-Lib
November 2000
Dale Flecker |
Harvard's Library Digital Initiative Building a First Generation Digital Library Infrastructure... |
D-Lib
April 2006
Lorcan Dempsey |
Libraries and the Long Tail: Some Thoughts about Libraries in a Network Age Libraries collectively manage a long tail of research, learning and cultural materials. However, we need to do more work to make sure that this long tail is directly available to improve the work and lives of our users. |
D-Lib
April 2007 |
Setting the Foundations of Digital Libraries: The DELOS Manifesto The DELOS Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries now envisions a Digital Library as a tool at the center of intellectual activity having no logical, conceptual, physical, temporal, or personal borders or barriers to information. |
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. |
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
April 2002
Erik Duval |
Metadata Principles and Practicalities There is much confusion about how metadata should be integrated into information systems. How is it to be created or extended? Who will manage it? How can it be used and exchanged? Whence comes its authority? Can different metadata standards be used together in a given environment? |
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. |
D-Lib
May 2004
Gregory Crane |
Georeferencing in Historical Collections How different cultural documents--even when converted into a common language--describe space in very different ways. |
D-Lib
January 2003
Mitchell et al. |
iVia Open Source Virtual Library System iVia is an open source Internet subject portal or virtual library system. |
D-Lib
August 2006
Lavoie, Henry & Dempsey |
A Service Framework for Libraries As libraries continue to engage with an ever-shifting information landscape, it is apparent that their efforts would be facilitated by a shared view of how library services should be organized and surfaced in these new settings and contexts. |
ONLINE
Mar/Apr 2009
Nelson et al. |
FEATURE: Implementing Federated Search at the University of Wyoming The allure of federated searching is potent in academic libraries. Students and faculty want to streamline their searching across web-based search engines, library collections, and the bibliographic databases to which the library subscribes. |
D-Lib
November 2002
Budhu & Coleman |
The Design and Evaluation of Interactivities in a Digital Library |
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
August 2005
William H. Mischo |
Digital Libraries: Challenges and Influential Work Effective search and discovery over open and hidden digital resources on the Internet remains a problematic and challenging task. |
D-Lib
April 2001
Rachel Heery |
Renardus Project Developments and the Wider Digital Library Context The innovatory drive within the development of digital library services thrives on the tension between meeting both technical and social imperatives... |
D-Lib
August 2003 |
In Brief Building a More Meaningful Web: From Traditional Knowledge Organization Systems to New Semantic Tools... Information Visualization Interfaces for Retrieval and Analysis (IVIRA) Workshop Summary... Report on the "OAI Metadata Harvesting Workshop"... etc. |
Searcher
June 2002
Irene E. McDermott |
Where was I? Maps on the Web There is a tremendous amount of spatial data on the World Wide Web: multitudes of maps; armfuls of atlases; cartloads of cartography. Enough to keep a map nerd like myself clicking and dreaming for years. Maps on the Web are designed for many uses, and many of them are free... |
D-Lib
June 2004
Sokvitne & Lavelle |
Implementing an Open Jurisdictional Digital Repository - the STORS Project This starting point program for the State Library of Tasmania has already allowed the acquisition of significant Tasmanian digital content that would otherwise have been lost. |
D-Lib
Sep/Oct 2011
Shaon & Woolf |
Long-term Preservation for Spatial Data Infrastructures: a Metadata Framework and Geo-portal Implementation The work presented in this article investigates the requirements for ensuring sustained access to environmental data from the perspective of a preservation-aware Spatial Data Infrastructure. |
D-Lib
December 2001
Christophe Blanchi |
Distributed Interoperable Metadata Registry Interoperability between digital libraries depends on effective sharing of metadata. Successful sharing of metadata requires common standards for metadata exchange... |
D-Lib
January 2000
Adam Chandler, Dan Foley & Alaaeldin M. Hafez |
Mapping and Converting Essential Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) Metadata into MARC21 and Dublin Core |
D-Lib
June 2003 |
In Brief ICON (Innovation Curriculum Online Network): The National Digital Library for Technology Literacy... G-Portal: A Digital Library Portal for Geospatial and Georeferenced Resources... Portal Building for State History... eERL (electronic Environmental Resources Library)... etc. |
D-Lib
September 2002 |
In Brief EU(DELOS)-NSF Working Group on Digital Archiving and Preservation... Update on the JISC X4L Programme... MedHist: A Subject Gateway for the History of Medicine... TREC Genomics Pre-Track Workshop Report... etc. |
Information Today
June 3, 2014
Brandi Scardilli |
Getting the Most Out of Discovery Service Here's an overview of the four major discovery services for libraries, including their newly implemented features. |
