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D-Lib
May 2006 |
Digital Library Federation (DLF) Aquifer Project Named to symbolize the pooling of content into a community resource, and the piping or siphoning of content to meet specific needs, the collaboration amongst a subset of DLF member libraries has produced standards, reports, and prototypes over the past year.   |
Information Today
October 6, 2011 |
OCLC Report Examines Use of Social Metadata at Libraries, Archives, and Museums The report seeks to provide an overview of social metadata to enable cultural heritage institutions to better use their users' expertise and enrich their descriptive metadata to improve their users' experiences. |
D-Lib
December 2004
Jia Liu |
Metadata Development in China: Research and Practice Chinese researchers and practitioners have now reached the point where metadata development and use have matured and become stable throughout the country's institutions. |
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. |
Information Today
October 19, 2009 |
OCLC Initiates Metadata Services for Publishers This is a new service that takes publishers' ONIX title metadata, enriches it using WorldCat mining and mapping techniques, and delivers the enhanced ONIX metadata back to the publishers for use in their systems. |
D-Lib
Nov/Dec 2012
Laurence Lannom |
Editorial We feature an extensive consideration of contextual metadata for cultural objects, visual interfaces for cultural heritage collections, the infrastructure needed to build upon and leverage open access and more. |
Information Today
February 17, 2015 |
DPLA Updates KriKri Metadata Aggregation Engine The Digital Public Library of America launched KriKri version 0.1.3, which is used as part of the DPLA's metadata ingestion system. |
Information Today
June 28, 2012
Katherine Allen |
New European Library Portal Launched The European Library is a new discovery service that provides access to the collections of the national libraries of 46 European countries, plus a growing number of research libraries. |
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. |
Information Today
April 2, 2015 |
Internet Archive and DPLA Form Partnership The Internet Archive and the Digital Public Library of America joined forces for a joint program that will enhance collection sharing from the Internet Archive in the DPLA. |
Information Today
July 27, 2009 |
New OCLC Gateway Service Increases Web Visibility of Digital Collections The WorldCat Digital Collection Gateway offers libraries a self-service tool to easily upload metadata from their unique digital content to WorldCat, the world's largest online resource for finding items held in libraries. |
D-Lib
January 2002
William Y. Arms |
A Spectrum of Interoperability The Site for Science Prototype for the NSDL... |
D-Lib
April 2004
Brian F. Lavoie |
Implementing Metadata in Digital Preservation Systems: The PREMIS Activity This article discusses the objectives, current status, and future activities of PREMIS, an expert working group focused on the topic of implementing preservation metadata within digital archiving systems. |
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... |
Information Today
March 17, 2015 |
DPLA Moves Forward With Public Library Partnership Project The Minnesota Digital Library received a grant -- as one of the Digital Public Library of America's four service hubs to get an award -- to work on the Public Library Partnership Project |
Information Today
December 17, 2013 |
SirsiDynix eResource Central Manages 3M Cloud Library Titles More than 200,000 titles and hundreds of publishers from 3M are now available to eRC library customers in the U.S. |
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. |
Information Today
April 26, 2012 |
Millions of Harvard Library Catalog Records Publicly Available The Harvard Library announced it would make more than 12 million catalog records from Harvard's 73 libraries publicly available. |
D-Lib
December 2003
Stuart A. Sutton |
Metadata Fundamentals for All Librarians Priscilla Caplan's book Metadata Fundamentals for All Librarians is extremely worthwhile reading -- particularly so for the librarian or student of librarianship wanting to get a solid, high-level view of the metadata landscape. |
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
November 2002
Jinfang Niu |
A Metadata Framework Developed at the Tsinghua University Library to Aid in the Preservation of Digital Resources |
Information Today
August 16, 2010 |
OCLC Announced Enhanced WorldCat Digital Collection Gateway Repository managers from libraries, museums, archives and other research institutions can now contribute metadata records for digital materials to WorldCat. |
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
Nov/Dec 2015
Chapman et al. |
Developing Best Practices in Digital Library Assessment: Year One Update In the face of limited resources and increasing demand for online access to digital library content, we need to strategically focus our efforts and better understand users, impact, and associated costs. |
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
January 2006 |
In Brief Digital Preservation Coalition Launches Series That Features DPC Projects... Council on Library and Information Resources Postdoctoral Fellowship in Scholarly Information Resources... 2006 International Paper Contest on International Digital Libraries and Information Science & Technology Advances in Developing Countries...etc. |
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
February 2005 |
In Brief Integration of Content and Library Services in Sakai... JORUM: A Free Online Service Offering Access to Learning and Teaching Materials... CASHMERE-int... In the News... etc. |
Information Today
July 3, 2008 |
LibLime and the eXtensible Catalog Project Announce Partnership LibLime, provider of open source solutions for libraries, and the eXtensible Catalog project, an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation funded project currently underway at the University of Rochester's River Campus Libraries, have announced a new partnership. |
D-Lib
April 2004
Nancy Allen |
Collaborative Digitization Program (CDP) The Colorado Digitization Project has broadened its scope, and serves a number of roles as a collaborative organization supporting digitization infrastructure for cultural heritage organizations of all kinds. |
Information Today
July 29, 2010 |
U.S. Public Libraries Can Provide High Schools with Free Credo Reference Access Recognizing the increasing burden on public libraries to support the research needs of students at local schools, Credo Reference will be made available to a library's local public high school(s). |
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. |
Information Today
June 25, 2013 |
OCLC Creates Metadata API to Improve WorldCat Cataloging Services The API helps OCLC members and partners build applications that allow them to catalog their collections on the OCLC WorldShare Platform, which supports OCLC's cloud-based services and applications worldwide. |
Information Today
May 20, 2014
Barbie E. Keiser |
Give Your Library the Edge The Edge Initiative is a toolkit designed to help public libraries "demonstrate how their work adds value and supports strong outcomes" in the communities they serve. |
Information Today
June 30, 2015 |
ProQuest Announces New Version of Intota ProQuest announced that version 2 of Intota, its cloud-based library services platform, will be available in mid-2016. |
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
Mar/Apr 2008
Branin et al. |
In Brief LIS Editors Launch Effort to Develop Best Practices for LIS Journals... Carolina Digital Library and Archives, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill... Help us make HILT's terminology services useful in your information service... etc. |
D-Lib
Sep/Oct 2013 |
In Brief and In the News Assessing the Impact of Library Discovery Technology on Content Usage... A New Way to Follow the Research Trail... GreyGuide - Guide to Good Practice in Grey Literature... |
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
May 2005 |
In Brief NISO's OpenURL: Matching the Query to the Result... Report on the First CASHMERE-int Workshop... Writing a Workbook for Archivists and Curators of Digital Private Papers - the Paradigm Project... etc. |
D-Lib
Jan/Feb 2016 |
In Brief and In the News Should there be a right to be forgotten?... Registration underway for Digital Library Federation's eResearch Network... The Digital Liberal Arts Exchange... |
D-Lib
Sep/Oct 2015 |
In Brief and In the News New OCLC Community Center offers a place online to share ideas, best practices... New Mexico's Makerstate Initiative... Use and Connect: Linked Open Data of National Diet Library, Japan... |
D-Lib
January 2002
Nuala A. Bennett |
Illinois Digital Cultural Heritage Community Collaborative interactions among libraries, museums and elementary schools... |
Information Today
July 1, 2002
Richard W. Wiggins |
OCLC Extends Digital Library Offerings OCLC continues its push into the digital library software and services market with two recent announcements. |
D-Lib
April 2003
Searle & Thompson |
Preservation Metadata Pragmatic first steps at the National Library of New Zealand |
Information Today
August 19, 2010 |
EOS International Enters Digital Library Market The application and digital content may be stored on a local network server or accessed remotely from one of the company's global data centers. |
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. |
Information Today
July 22, 2014 |
OCLC Gets Grant to Promote Early Literacy in Public Libraries OCLC's project will increase libraries' awareness of the new service model and help library staff members and administrators support their early literacy services. |
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. |
Entrepreneur
November 2006
Nichole L. Torres |
Beyond the Books Take advantage of the business resources your local library has to offer. |
