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D-Lib
March 2006
Schibel & Rydberg-Cox |
Early Modern Culture in a Comprehensive Digital Library Digital libraries have the potential to transform fields such as early modern studies, where problems of physical access to sources and intellectual access to their contents have hampered our ability to contemplate major topics.   |
D-Lib
March 2006
Choudhury et al. |
Document Recognition for a Million Books Transcription represents only one component of document recognition. The presence of a large-scale book image corpus significantly raises the possibilities for document recognition capabilities, especially given the potential for statistical inferences or analyses. |
D-Lib
September 2005
Lavoie et al. |
Anatomy of Aggregate Collections: The Example of Google Print for Libraries As mass digitization programs become more common, many are likely to originate within the library community itself, rather than through external organizations like Google. |
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
February 2001
Manfred Thaller |
From the Digitized to the Digital Library Many, if not most, digitization projects have aimed at existing collections as individual servers. A digital library, however, should be more than a digitized one... |
Information Today
December 20, 2004
Barbara Quint |
Google and Research Libraries Launch Massive Digitization Project Google has launched a program with a number of research libraries which aims at ultimately scanning all the books in their collections. Could this mark the beginning of the end of brick-and-mortar libraries? |
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. |
Searcher
January 2008
Ashmore & Grogg |
The Race to the Shelf Continues Internet giants are in the middle of a modern-day space race: Who can scan the most and the best books in alliance with the biggest and brightest libraries in the U.S. |
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 |
D-Lib
March 2006
David A. Smith |
Debabelizing Libraries: Machine Translation by and for Digital Collections Million-book libraries provide not only testbeds for existing ideas, but also several problems in need of immediate solution. As data acquisition becomes more automated, cataloguing needs more automated help. |
D-Lib
Sep/Oct 2011
Gauthereau-Bryson et al. |
Digitization Practices for Translations: Lessons Learned from the Our Americas Archive Partnership Project This paper discusses the complexities involved in digitizing multilingual historical documents, including practices for creating "born-digital" translations and unique metadata to best describe these rare, primary documents. |
Search Engine Watch
December 14, 2004
Gary Price |
Google Partners with Oxford, Harvard & Others to Digitize Libraries Google is working closely with five new content partners on a massive scanning project that will bring millions of volumes of printed books into the Google Print database. |
Information Today
December 27, 2004
Barbara Quint |
Google's Library Project: Questions, Questions, Questions Librarians, academicians, journalists, information industry pundits, and real people continue to ring in with comments, concerns, quarrels, and commendations for Google's new library program. Here are some answers, too. |
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
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
October 2001
Brewster Kahle |
Public Access to Digital Material The goal of universal access to our cultural heritage is within our grasp. With current digital technology we can build comprehensive collections, and with digital networks we can make these available to students and scholars all over the world... |
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 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 . |
Information Today
May 16, 2005
Barbara Quint |
Library Collections Linked on Google Scholar for Free The Google Scholar project has responded to the complaints of many academic and research librarians by expanding its usefulness for campus-based users. Any library using OpenURLs and meeting Google Scholar's conditions can join the program. |
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
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
December 2006
David Bearman |
Jean-Noel Jeanneney's Critique of Google: Private Sector Book Digitization and Digital Library Policy Jean-Noel Jeanneney, President of the Bibliotheque nationale de France is pushing for a dramatic increase in international collaboration in the digitization of books by governments, to counter what he identifies as the risks posed by Google. |
D-Lib
January 2002
Suzana Sukovic |
Beyond the scriptorium: The Role of the Library in Text Encoding Development of electronic textual resources means dealing with documents in new ways and on different levels, often involving work on a document's content through text encoding. This development challenges the library's assumed position in the research process... |
Searcher
April 2007
Grogg & Ashmore |
Google Book Search Libraries and Their Digital Copies Few things in the past decade have brought libraries and subsequent controversy into the mainstream media as much as the google book search library project. |
D-Lib
Jul/Aug 2015
Lorang et al. |
Developing an Image-Based Classifier for Detecting Poetic Content in Historic Newspaper Collections The Image Analysis for Archival Discovery (Aida) project team is investigating the use of image analysis to identify poetic content in historic newspapers. |
D-Lib
November 2000 |
In Brief Managing Access to Grey Literature Collections... UK Government commits to getting online... Building an Audio-visual Digital Library of Historical Documentaries... High-Level Thesaurus Project... The Program for Cooperative Cataloging Task Force on Multiple Manifestations of Electronic Resources... etc. |
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
Jul/Aug 2000
William Y. Arms |
Automated Digital Libraries: How Effectively Can Computers Be Used for the Skilled Tasks of Professional Librarianship? Must access to scientific and professional information always be expensive, or is it possible that digital libraries might change this sad situation? |
D-Lib
December 2002
Dagobert Soergel |
A Framework for Digital Library Research: Broadening the Vision Digital library research and development needs a framework that can be used as a perspective on existing research and practice and, more importantly, as a structured vision for the development of new ideas. |
D-Lib
March 2006
Daniel J. Cohen |
From Babel to Knowledge: Data Mining Large Digital Collections High-quality digitization and thorough text markup may be attractive for those creating digital collections, but a familiarity with information theory and data-mining techniques makes one realize that it may be more worthwhile to digitize a greater number of books or documents at a lower standard for the same cost. |
D-Lib
May 2005
Jeffrey A. Rydberg-Cox |
The Cultural Heritage Language Technologies Consortium The Cultural Heritage Language Technologies consortium reports progress made towards the application of technologies and techniques from computational linguistics, natural language processing, and information retrieval to texts written in Greek, Latin, and Old Norse. |
D-Lib
May/Jun 2010
Dawei & Yigang |
The National Digital Library Project This paper introduces the National Digital Library Project (NDLP) in China, and covers its basic characteristics, objectives, and content. |
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. |
Searcher
March 2005
Carol Ebbinghouse |
Open Access: The Battle for Universal, Free Knowledge Many publishers are joining authors in permitting open access through self-archiving in institutional repositories. |
D-Lib
November 2000
Dale Flecker |
Harvard's Library Digital Initiative Building a First Generation Digital Library Infrastructure... |
D-Lib
January 2001
Gregory Crane |
Commercial Digital Libraries and the Academic Community How New Firms Might Develop New Relationships between "Publisher" and Higher Education... |
D-Lib
October 2001
Ian H. Witten |
Greenstone: Open-Source Digital Library Software The Greenstone digital library software is an open-source system for the construction and presentation of information collections. It builds collections with effective full-text searching and metadata-based browsing facilities that are attractive and easy to use... |
D-Lib
May/Jun 2011 |
In Brief and In the News A new step toward digital library foundations... Scholarly reading and the value of library resources... Reposit: positing a new kind of repository deposit... |
Information Today
October 9, 2006
Susanne Bjorner |
Google Library Project Expands to Spain The Universidad Complutense Madrid has become the first library in continental Europe and in a non-English speaking country to join the 2-year-old Google Book Search program. |
D-Lib
Mar/Apr 2009
George V. Landon |
Toward Digitizing All Forms of Documentation Techniques to digitize numerous forms of documentation, including deteriorated manuscripts and photography. |
D-Lib
Nov/Dec 2009
Brian Lavoie |
Beyond 1923 Characteristics of potentially in-copyright print books in library collections. |
Information Today
August 29, 2005
Barbara Quint |
CORRECTIONS: Google Print Not All I Said It Was Google does not supply publishers with e-books as part of the Google Print program, contrary to earlier reporting. Other errors in the Google Print reporting were also discovered. |
D-Lib
March 2003
Ian H. Witten |
Examples of Practical Digital Libraries: Collections Built Internationally Using Greenstone The Greenstone Digital Library Software provides a way of building and distributing digital library collections, opening up new possibilities for organizing information and making it available over the Internet or on CD-ROM. |
D-Lib
May 2002 |
Clips and Pointers Building a National Strategy for Preservation: Issues in Digital Media Archiving... The Resource Discovery Network: evaluation report... Trusted Digital Repositories: Attributes and Responsibilities, an RLG-OCLC Report... "No Going Back?" The final report of the Effective Records Management Project... etc. |
| D-Lib |
In Brief and In the News Harnessing the Cognitive Surplus of the Nation by Crowdsourcing... Medieval Electronic Scholarly Alliance receives implementation funding from the Mellon Foundation... Content from European National and Research Libraries Now Available through New Portal for Researchers... |
InternetNews
November 1, 2005
Tim Gray |
Google Back in Book Business Google says it will resume scanning copyrighted books. |
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
May 2003
Marcum & Friedlander |
Keepers of the Crumbling Culture What digital preservation can learn from library history |
Searcher
February 2005
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Round Up the Unusual Suspects! How could Google's plans to offer digitized book content of brick-and-mortar libraries affect the library world? |
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. |
