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D-Lib
January 2000
Gail M. Hodge |
Best Practices for Digital Archiving: An Information Life Cycle Approach Digital information is fragile in ways that differ from traditional technologies, such as paper or microfilm. It is more easily corrupted or altered without recognition...   |
D-Lib
November 2000
Dale Flecker |
Harvard's Library Digital Initiative Building a First Generation Digital Library Infrastructure... |
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
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 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. |
Information Today
August 25, 2011
Barbie E. Keiser |
GPO Disapproves of Report on the Future of Federal Depository Libraries The report had too little input -- only 75 comments from a small community of depository librarians with no input from the ultimate users of government information. |
D-Lib
Jan/Feb 2016
Nash & Wheeler |
Desktop Batch Import Workflow for Ingesting Heterogeneous Collections: A Case Study with DSpace 5 We describe a lightweight and easily adopted Python workflow for packaging heterogeneous collections in Simple Archive Format for batch ingest into DSpace. |
D-Lib
January 2002
William Y. Arms |
A Spectrum of Interoperability The Site for Science Prototype for the NSDL... |
D-Lib
Jul/Aug 2014
Neatrour et al. |
The SIMP Tool: Facilitating Digital Library, Metadata, and Preservation Workflow at the University of Utah's J. Willard Marriott Library This article presents a case study of the Submission Information Metadata Packaging tool developed at the University of Utah's J. Willard Marriott Library. |
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
June 2000
Diane Nester Kresh |
Offering High Quality Reference Service on the Web Today's researchers need to find quickly information that is usable, relevant, authoritative and verifiable. To meet that need, libraries must adapt our traditional strengths of acquiring, describing, and serving information to an environment that is not bound by time or physical place... |
D-Lib
Mar/Apr 2014
Rimkus et al. |
Digital Preservation File Format Policies of ARL Member Libraries: An Analysis While concerted efforts have been made in the library community to encourage common standards, digital preservation policies regularly vary from one digital library service to another. |
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
June 2005
Jantz & Giarlo |
Digital Preservation: Architecture and Technology for Trusted Digital Repositories To ensure that current digital archives can be trusted to be available in the future, methods, practices, and standards need to be defined. |
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
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
May/Jun 2012 |
In Brief and In the News SPRUCE project tackles digital preservation challenges with hands on events... The TIMBUS project - timeless business processes and services... Orphan works and mass digitization: obstacles and opportunities... |
D-Lib
May 2003 |
In Brief The GLobal Access Management Project... DigitalWell: Streaming Media Asset Management... The Xtensible Past: XML as a Means for Easy Access to Historical Research Data and a Strategy for Digital Preservation... etc. |
D-Lib
May 2001 |
In Brief The Variable Media Initiative at the Guggenheim... Digital Imaging South Africa... A Contemporary Culture Virtual Archive in XML... Griffith Artworks CD-ROM Archival Project... Griffith University Art Collection on-line... etc. |
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
Mar/Apr 2014 |
In Brief and In the News Kuali OLE System Partners receive $882,000 grant from Andrew W. Mellon Foundation... IMLS Congressional Justification Now Available... Wellcome Library's Digital Asset Player... |
D-Lib
May 2002
William G. LeFurgy |
Levels of Service for Digital Repositories This article outlines conditions that govern the persistence of digital materials and suggests a model for future levels of service for digital repositories... |
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
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
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
April 2002
Amy Friedlander |
The National Digital Information Infrastructure Preservation Program Expectations, realities, choices and progress to date... |
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
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. |
Information Today
May 30, 2013 |
OCLC Working With Libraries to Test Record Management Functionality OCLC is working with 13 libraries on three continents to beta test OCLC WorldShare Metadata Record Manager, which offers new record management functionality to enhance a library's ability to catalog its collections. |
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
Mar/Apr 2013
von Suchodoletz et al. |
Report on the First iPres Workshop on Practical Emulation Tools and Strategies The International Conference on Digital Preservation is an established annual event bringing together practitioners and researchers in the digital preservation community, engaging individuals, organizations and institutions across all disciplines and domains involved in digital libraries. |
Searcher
June 2002
Miriam A. Drake |
The U.S. Census bureau in the 21st Century In order to learn more about access and distribution of the Census, I sent surveys to two librarians associated with the Government Documents Round Table (GODORT) of the ALA. While these librarians could not speak for GODORT, they presented some interesting perspectives... |
Information Today
February 21, 2008
Barbara Quint |
Virtual Reference Service From GPO and Depository Libraries--GIO: Ask a Librarian A formal agreement between the U.S. Government Printing Office and a network of 20 depository libraries has relaunched and expanded the scope of a virtual reference service called Government Information Online. |
D-Lib
Nov/Dec 2015 |
In Brief and In the News OCLC prints last library catalog cards... VRA Core RDF Ontology available for review... ALA awarded IMLS grant for IFLA 2016 Congress Fellowships... |
D-Lib
December 2008
Priscilla Caplan |
Repository to Repository Transfer of Enriched Archival Information Packages Responsibility for digital preservation must be distributed among many heterogeneous, geographically dispersed repositories. |
D-Lib
Jan/Feb 2012 |
In Brief and In the News UNESCO endorses the IFLA Manifesto for Digital Libraries... Can culture on the web change peoples lives?... Europeana reaches 20 million items... |
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. |
D-Lib
Jan/Feb 2015 |
In Brief and In the News The PERICLES Extraction Tool: Significant Environment Information Collection to Support Object Reuse... Jisc Digital Media Supporting Digitization Projects... The Avalon Media System... |
D-Lib
February 2001 |
In Brief Leading Edge Metadata Workshop In Melbourne... Towards a Digital Preservation Coalition in the UK... New Listserv for the Distributed National Electronic Resource... An International Training Programme: STIMULATE... The 21st-Century Librarian Award... etc. |
D-Lib
Sep/Oct 2008
Dappert & Enders |
Using METS, PREMIS and MODS for Archiving eJournals As institutions turn towards developing archival digital repositories, many decisions on the use of metadata have to be made. |
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
September 2006
Choi & Rasmussen |
What Is Needed to Educate Future Digital Librarians: A Study of Current Practice and Staffing Patterns in Academic and Research Libraries Digital libraries are the future of academic and research institutions, and digital professionals will be required to have more breadth and depth of knowledge and skills across the dimensions of traditional library knowledge, technology, and human relations. |
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
Nov/Dec 2010 |
D-Lib Magazine In Brief and In the News Linked Data for Climate Research... Project Cumulus - Getting Services from the Cloud... SURFACE Launch... etc. |
D-Lib
Jul/Aug 2015 |
In Brief and In the News Call for Expressions of Interest in hosting the annual Open Repositories Conference, 2017... IMLS Seeks a Cooperator for National Program... NISO Publishes Recommended Practice on Exchanging Serial Content... |
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
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
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
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. |
Information Today
September 26, 2011
Barbie E. Keiser |
End User Survey of Federal Depository Libraries The survey conducted by Outsell was designed to serve as a support for GPO's strategic planning effort as well as for libraries participating in the depository library program. |
