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D-Lib Sep/Oct 2014 Latif et al. |
Exposing Data From an Open Access Repository for Economics As Linked Data This article describes an approach to publishing metadata on the Semantic Web from an Open Access repository to foster interoperability with distributed data. |
D-Lib Nov/Dec 2010 Byrne & Goddard |
The Strongest Link: Libraries and Linked Data This article will outline some of the benefits that linked data could have for libraries, will discuss some of the non-technical obstacles that we face in moving forward, and will finally offer suggestions for practical ways in which libraries can participate in the development of the semantic web. |
D-Lib August 2003 Baker & Dekkers |
Identifying Metadata Elements with URIs: The CORES Resolution The "Resolution on Metadata Element Identifiers", or CORES Resolution, is an agreement among the maintenance organisations for several major metadata standards to identify their metadata elements using Uniform Resource Identifiers. Here's a progress report on the resolution. |
D-Lib Mar/Apr 2015 Ok Nam Park |
Development of Linked Data for Archives in Korea The study reported on here converts records of National Archives of Korea to linked data, and connects archives data to library and museum data in order to show how linked data are actually used in MLA (Museum-Library-Archives). |
D-Lib November 2003 Kaiser et al. |
New Ways of Sharing and Using Authority Information: The LEAF Project This article presents an overview of the LEAF project (Linking and Exploring Authority Files), which has set out to provide a framework for international, collaborative work in the sector of authority data with respect to authority control. |
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2014 Hickey & Toves |
Managing Ambiguity In VIAF The Virtual International Authority File is built from tens of millions of names represented in more than 130 million authority and bibliographic records expressed in multiple languages, scripts and formats. |
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 Jan/Feb 2015 Gianmaria Silvello |
A Methodology for Citing Linked Open Data Subsets In this paper we discuss the problem of data citation with a specific focus on Linked Open Data. |
Information Today October 14, 2014 Barbie E. Keiser |
The Libhub Initiative: Making Libraries More Visible This project aims to raise the web visibility of libraries' resources by allowing search engines to see inside a library to the item level. |
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 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 April 2006 Norman Paskin |
Identifier Interoperability: A Report on Two Recent ISO Activities There are increasing demands for metadata interoperability in both the commercial media and library sectors, and the semantic interoperability technology developed from the <indecs> model has a role to play in addressing these. |
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 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 January 2003 Norman Paskin |
On Making and Identifying a "Copy" The purpose of this article is to explore some of the conceptual issues of "making a copy" digitally and in an automated DRM environment which need to be clarified to enable rights expression languages and other DRM tools to deal with the concept of copying. |
D-Lib Jan/Feb 2015 Bontcheva et al. |
Semantic Enrichment and Search: A Case Study on Environmental Science Literature In order to facilitate environmental science researchers in carrying out better semantic searches, a form-based semantic search interface is proposed. |
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 Nov/Dec 2015 Van de Sompel & Nelson |
Reminiscing About 15 Years of Interoperability Efforts Over the past fifteen years, our perspective on tackling information interoperability problems for web-based scholarship has evolved significantly. |
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. |
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? |
InternetNews August 18, 2009 |
W3C's New SKOS Standard Advances Linked Data The Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) is designed to help organizations surface more information. |
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 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 Jan/Feb 2014 |
In Brief and In the News NISO Altmetrics Project: Standardizing New Alternative Assessment Metrics... Purposeful Gaming and Biodiversity Heritage Library... ACM Launches New E-Books Series Covering Entire Spectrum of Computer Science Topics... |
D-Lib Sep/Oct 2008 Chute & Van de Sempel |
Introducing djatoka: A Reuse Friendly, Open Source JPEG 2000 Image Server Support for the format is emerging in major consumer applications, and the cultural heritage community seriously considers it a viable format for digital preservation. |
D-Lib February 2009 Nicholas et al. |
A Policy Checklist for Enabling Persistence of Identifiers One of the main tasks of the Persistent Identifier Linking Infrastructure (PILIN) project on persistent identifiers was to establish a policy framework for managing identifiers and identifier providers. |
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 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 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 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 Jul/Aug 2011 |
In Brief SEALS: Semantic Evaluation at Large Scale... Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Access to Learning Award 2012... New library study: demand up for technology, budget cuts limit access... |
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... |
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 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. |
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... |
Information Today October 2000 |
MITINET/marc Software Unveils MARC Magician MITINET/marc Software has announced the release of MARC Magician, its new MARC data-cleanup software. MARC Magician combines Automatic MARC Record Repair, comprehensive global editing, and Active Error Checking functionality all without having to memorize MARC codes and rules... |
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 Mar/Apr 2011 Korn et al. |
In Brief and In the News Linked data in the humanities... Low-cost digitization of cultural heritage materials... New tool to increase use of in-copyright works... |
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2011 Gerolimos & Konsta |
Services for Academic Libraries in the New Era The aim of this paper is twofold. The primary focus is to research and document the integration of services based on the web into the framework of academic libraries. |
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 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 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 May/Jun 2015 |
In Brief and In the News President Obama Announces Open eBooks and ConnectED Library Challenge... IMLS announces public request for comment and webinar on broadband barriers... Julie Todaro Wins 2016-2017 ALA Presidency... |
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... |
Information Today September 2001 Marshall Breeding |
The ALA Annual Conference 2001 This showcase featured the latest in library automation trends and announcements... |
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. |
Information Today February 23, 2004 Barbara Quint |
OCLC Opens Online Beta Test Site Now visitors can explore new features and services that may---or may not---debut on the full service in time. |
New Architect June 2002 Uche Ogbuji |
The Languages of the Semantic Web The Semantic Web is a vision of a next-generation network that lets content publishers provide notations designed to express a crude "meaning" of the page, instead of merely dumping arbitrary text onto a page... |
Information Today December 10, 2007 Barbara Quint |
The Library of Congress and the Future of Bibliographic Control: Working Group Report The recommendations of the report seem predominantly focused on book cataloging and, in that regard, how to curtail the Library of Congress' role in the future. |
Information Today October 2002 Marshall Breeding |
An Update on Open Source ILS These integrated library systems could soon offer a viable alternative to commercial products. |