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D-Lib
September 2000
Andy Powell, Michael Heaney & Lorcan Dempsey |
RSLP Collection Description A description of an effort to develop a way to describe collections in a consistent and machine readable way that is applicable to physical and digital collections of all kinds, including library, art and museum materials.   |
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. |
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
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
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. |
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
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
August 2009
Lourdi et al. |
Semantic Integration of Collection Description: Combining CIDOC/CRM and Dublin Core Collections Application Profile The research reveals the complexity of mapping metadata schemas to ontologies and resolves particular difficulties by presenting the crosswalk between Dublin Core Collections Application Profile and CIDOC/CRM. |
D-Lib
September 2000
Judith Pearce |
Directories of Libraries and Related Organizations This paper describes data standards work currently in progress to support the deployment of directories of libraries and related organizations in a networked information services environment. |
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
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
February 2008
Ian G. Anderson |
Necessary but Not Sufficient: Modelling Online Archive Development in the UK The process of archive development is hampered by the lack of a template for identifying and evaluating online archive information and services or a model for understanding their development. |
D-Lib
Mar/Apr 2011
Dulock & Long |
The Conference on World Affairs Archive Online: Digitization and Metadata for a Digital Audio Pilot In 2009 the University of Colorado Archives, together with other units of the CU Libraries and the offices of the Conference on World Affairs, began a project to digitize a substantial collection of audio recordings from the Conference. |
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. |
D-Lib
September 2001 |
In Brief HERON: Project into Service... CNRI Explores Maintenance of and Long-term Access to Computer Science Collections... LEAF - Linking and Exploring Authority Files... TermMaster: Software for Creating and Maintaining Thesauri and Ontologies... etc. |
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
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
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
Jan/Feb 2011
Starr & Gastl |
isCitedBy: A Metadata Scheme for DataCite The knitting together of published research articles and the research data that substantiate their findings is of increasing importance as more disciplines take advantage of data-driven approaches to knowledge acquisition. |
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
Jul/Aug 2011
Robert A. Schrier |
Digital Librarianship & Social Media: the Digital Library as Conversation Facilitator One of the ways digital librarians can cultivate a broader awareness of their collections is through social networking. |
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 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
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 2012
Algee et al. |
Viewshare and the Kress Collection: Creating, Sharing, and Rapidly Prototyping Visual Interfaces to Cultural Heritage Collection Data Viewshare is a free, open-source visualization platform developed by the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program at the Library of Congress and its partners. |
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 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
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. |
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... |
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
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
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
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. |
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
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
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
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
Jul/Aug 2013 |
In Brief and In the News Europeana releases first free iPad app... IMLS and Webjunction convening examines continuing education for library professionals... ALA Task Force releases digital literacy recommendations... |
D-Lib
November 2000
Dale Flecker |
Harvard's Library Digital Initiative Building a First Generation Digital Library Infrastructure... |
D-Lib
Nov/Dec 2008
Finlay et al. |
In Brief Pattern Language Network (PLANET) project explores the use of patterns and pattern languages in teaching... Increased Content, New Features Offered by Science.go... etc. |
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
October 2009
Ooghe & Moreels |
Analysing Selection for Digitisation: Current Practices and Common Incentives Can/should all documents that pass the initial test of appraisal also remain stored indefinitely? What are the requirements for long-term preservation? At what point (if ever) do digital collections become too large to handle? |
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
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
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
December 2008
Rich Gazan |
Social Annotations in Digital Library Collections In order to incorporate Web 2.0 functionality effectively, digital libraries must fundamentally recast users not just as content consumers, but as content creators. |
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
April 2002 |
In Brief The Middle East Virtual Library... Advanced Technology Environmental Education Library... Testbed Digitale Bewaring: Working to Preserve the Digital Memory... Open Archives Initiative Protocol for harvesting cultural heritage metadata... etc. |
D-Lib
May/Jun 2010 |
D-Lib Magazine In Brief and In the News PREMIS in METS Toolbox... EUscreen: Accessing and exploring European television heritage... Content Lifecycle Integration Framework (CLIF)... CeDAAME... Terrier 3.0 Release Announced... etc. |
