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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
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
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
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
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
Marilyn McClelland |
Challenges for Service Providers When Importing Metadata in Digital Libraries Our experiences identify questions regarding intellectual property rights for metadata, protocols for enriched metadata, and tips for designing metadata services... |
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
Sep/Oct 2009
Mueller et al. |
OA Network: An Integrative Open Access Infrastructure for Germany This article describes concepts, development, and implementation of an overall Open Access infrastructure for Germany. |
D-Lib
November 2004
Senserini et al. |
Archiving and Accessing Web Pages: The Goddard Library Web Capture Project To ensure continued availability of these knowledge assets to the Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) community, the GSFC Library is working closely with others in the area of preservation to determine how to preserve the captured web sites once they are no longer maintained by the current owners or curators. |
D-Lib
Jan/Feb 2014
Simon Musgrave |
Improving Access to Recorded Language Data This article discusses the work of the Research Data Alliance Language Codes Working Group, which is addressing the problem of how scientists can discover data from various research areas that is managed by different disciplinary approaches and standards. |
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
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
Jul/Aug 2012
Bertin & Atanassova |
Semantic Enrichment of Scientific Publications and Metadata Our aim is to bring new value to scientific publications by automatic extraction and semantic analysis. |
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
Mar/Apr 2011
Chandler et al. |
Towards Transparent and Scalable OpenURL Quality Metrics With today's link resolver technology and the OpenURLs on which the link resolvers depend, following a reference link all the way to full-text can frustrate library users all too often. The authors present research on why OpenURLs fail so frequently. |
D-Lib
an/Feb 2010
Koutsomitropoulos et al. |
The Use of Metadata for Educational Resources in Digital Repositories: Practices and Perspectives In this article we focus on the use of learning-object specific metadata in digital repositories, as they are primarily incarnated in the learning object metadata standard. |
D-Lib
Nov/Dec 2009
Rehak, Nicholas & Ward |
Service-Oriented Models for Educational Resource Federations This article details a service-oriented model for a scalable infrastructure that supports resource federations for educational content, publishing, search, and metadata registries. |
ONLINE
September 2000
Norm Medeiros |
XML and the Resource Description Framework: The Great Web Hope The World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) Resource Description Framework (RDF) and Extensible Markup Language (XML) offer a potential means to enhanced resource discovery on the Web. But will they work? |
D-Lib
March 2005
Theo van Veen |
Renewing the Information Infrastructure of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek The Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB) is engaged in a major renewal of its information infrastructure. |
D-Lib
Sep/Oct 2014
Jettka & Stein |
The HZSK Repository: Implementation, Features, and Use Cases of a Repository for Spoken Language Corpora This article describes the process of the conception and implementation of a digital repository which is based on the software framework Fedora, Islandora, and Drupal. |
D-Lib
Sep/Oct 2010
Ternier et al. |
The Simple Publishing Interface (SPI) The Simple Publishing Interface is a new publishing protocol, developed under the auspices of the European Committee for Standardization workshop on learning technologies. |
D-Lib
April 2001
Xiaoming Liu |
Arc - An OAI Service Provider for Digital Library Federation The Open Archive Initiative (OAI) is one major effort to address technical interoperability among distributed archives. The objective of OAI is to develop a framework to facilitate the discovery of content in distributed archives... |
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
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
December 2000
Stuart L. Weibel & Traugott Koch |
The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative: Mission, Current Activities, and Future Directions The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) has led the development of structured metadata to support resource discovery... |
D-Lib
Nov/Dec 2012
Knoth & Zdrahal |
CORE: Three Access Levels to Underpin Open Access We present the CORE (COnnecting REpositories) system, a large-scale Open Access aggregation, outlining its existing functionality and discussing the future technical development. |
D-Lib
January 2001
Carl Lagoze |
Keeping Dublin Core Simple Cross-Domain Discovery or Resource Description? |
D-Lib
February 2004
Veen & Oldroyd |
Search and Retrieval in The European Library: A New Approach The objective of the European Library (TEL) project [TEL] was to set up a co-operative framework and specify a system for integrated access to the major collections of the European national libraries. This has been achieved by successfully applying a new approach for search and retrieval via URLs (SRU) [ZiNG] combined with a new metadata paradigm. |
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
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
January 2002
William Y. Arms |
A Spectrum of Interoperability The Site for Science Prototype for the NSDL... |
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
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. |
D-Lib
January 2006 |
Automated Capture of Thumbnails and Thumbshots for Use by Metadata Aggregation Services The use of thumbnails and thumbshots is an example of one of the ways in which digital library services are evolving to take greater advantage of graphical presentation of resources. |
D-Lib
September 2005 |
StoneD: A Bridge between Greenstone and DSpace The clarification of the similarities and differences between Greenstone and DSpace, and a report on a new technical development that allows users to migrate their collections from Greenstone to DSpace and vice versa. |
D-Lib
November 2002
Liu, et al. |
A Scalable Architecture for Harvest-Based Digital Libraries: The ODU/Southampton Experiments |
D-Lib
January 2003
Dobratz & Matthaei |
Open Archives Activities and Experiences in Europe: An Overview The Open Archives Forum is not another OAI implementation project. It is a clustering activity that targets existing open archives communities, as well as new communities, like IST projects or national initiatives planning or initiating open archives. |
D-Lib
February 2005
Sanderson, Young & LeVan |
SRW/U with OAI: Expected and Unexpected Synergies Contrast aims and approaches of the two protocols -- SRW/U (the Search/Retrieve Webservice) and OAI (Open Archives Initiative) -- and examines ways they have been or may be usefully co-implemented. |
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
September 2006
Goldsmith & Knudson |
Repository Librarian and the Next Crusade: The Search for a Common Standard for Digital Repository Metadata While metadata standards abound, and acceptance and use of these standards is equally widespread, agreement on a common standard is much harder to find. |
D-Lib
April 2001
Kurt Maly |
Kepler - An OAI Data/Service Provider for the Individual The objective of the Kepler framework is to satisfy the need for average researchers at an average university to publish results and disseminate them quickly and conveniently to a wide audience... |
D-Lib
December 2004
Herbert Van de Sompel et al. |
Resource Harvesting within the OAI-PMH Framework Recently, use cases have emerged that reveal a more liberal interpretation of what constitutes metadata in the OAI-PMH. The scope of descriptive metadata can be expanded to be more than just DC, MARC and similar bibliographic formats. |
D-Lib
February 2006 |
FeDCOR: An Institutional CORDRA Registry FeDCOR enables the federation of DSpace communities by following the CORDRA infrastructure. |
D-Lib
August 2003
Van de Sompel et al. |
Using the OAI-PMH... Differently The Open Archives Initiative's Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) was created to facilitate discovery of distributed resources. This article describes innovative applications of the OAI-PMH that researchers have introduced in recent projects. |
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
August 2007
Hagedorn et al. |
Enhancing Search and Browse Using Automated Clustering of Subject Metadata Librarians are aware that it is often difficult to create simple interfaces to complex online resources; however, a marriage of the two worlds is not impossible. |
D-Lib
November 2002
Almasy, Sleasman & Bower |
Software for Building a Full-Featured Discipline-Based Web Portal: The Scout Portal Toolkit The Scout Portal Toolkit is an open source software package with metadata entry and workflow control features that helps users find information by browsing and keyword search. |
D-Lib
June 2002
Paul Shabajee |
Primary Multimedia Objects and 'Educational Metadata' A fundamental dilemma for developers of multimedia archives. |
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
October 2004
Naomi Dushay |
Visualizing Bibliographic Metadata - A Virtual (Book) Spine Viewer The pairing of information visualization techniques with bibliographic metadata will yield great benefits for information discovery. |
