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- See also Library & Info Science: Preservation ; Internet Studies
- See also Digital Library > Research & Development

Alexandria Digital Library
The Alexandria Project will explore a variety of problems related to a distributed digital library for geographically-referenced information. The focus of the collection will be on information supporting basic science.
UC Santa Barbara

Anatomy of an Exhibition - Art Nouveau, 1890-1914
 "This Web feature offers a glimpse behind the scenes during the planning and construction of an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art."

Australian Research Repositories Online to the World (ARROW)
"...project will identify and test software or solutions to support best practice institutional digital repositories comprising e-prints, electronic theses, e-research and electronic publishing."

The Bath Profile:
An International Z39.50 Specification for Library Applications and Resource Discovery
The Bath Group: Participants at the Bath, UK Meeting, August 1999

Bibliography on Digital Watermarking
From The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies

BUILDER
Birmingham University [UK] Integrated Library Development and Electronic Resource
"The aim of the BUILDER Project was to develop a working model of the hybrid library within both a teaching and research context, seamlessly integrating access to a wide range of printed and electronic information sources, local and remote, using a Web-based interface, and in a way which will be universally applicable."

Building Digital Collections: Technical Information and Background Papers
 "The information on this page documents technical activities related to the American Memory Collections produced by the National Digital Library Program (NDLP) at the Library of Congress. This page is updated and expanded periodically."

Current Cites
"An annotated monthly bibliography of selected articles, books, and electronic documents on information technology"

California Digital Library
A Co-Library of the campuses of the University of California

  • eScholarship
    "...focused on identifying and supporting scholarly communities that have expressed or demonstrated a desire for innovation in the dissemination of their scholarship. Using digital technologies, eScholarship is creating UC supported electronic publications and support services."

Canadian Heritage Information Network
"...the information gateway to museums, galleries, and heritage in Canada and around the world."
Department of Canadian Heritage

Center for Research in Geomatics
"presents its prototype called GEOREP. It is a WWW Customizable Georeferenced Digital Library (GDL) for spatial data. The prototype is a catalog which allows to search information related to documents such as maps, aerial photographs, remote sensing images and multimedia documents."
Universite Laval, Quebec

Center for Retrospective Digitization in Gˆttingen (Gˆttinger DigitalisierungsZentrum GDZ)
 "...for retrospective digitization of library materials as part of an initiative to build a German digital research library..."

Collaboratory for Research on Electronic Work
A research unit with University of Michigan's School of Information which focuses on the design of new organizations and the technologies of voice, data, and video communication that make them possible

Council on Library and Information Resources - (dead link)

CREN - TechTalk Event

  • Where Is the Digital Library?
    Guest Expert: Clifford Lynch, Executive Directory, Coalition for Networked Information (CNI)
    Listen to the audio and read the transcript from the September 28, 2000 discussion.

Cultivate Interactive
"...a Web magazine which is funded under the European Commission's DIGICULT programme."

Cultivate United Kingdom - (dead link)
"...is establishing a European Cultural Heritage Network linking countries across Europe through a network of National Nodes. It is providing a single point of information on the opportunities, success stories and results arising from the European Commission's Information Society Technologies (IST) Programme which are of interest to libraries, museums and archives across Europe."

D-Lib Forum and D-Lib Magazine
 "A monthly magazine about innovation and research in digital libraries."

DELOS - Network for Excellence for Digital Libraries
"...provides an open context in which an international research agenda for future research activities in the digital libraries domain can be developed and continuously updated.
- Funded by the European Commission IST programme

Digital Governmentorg
Home of the National Science Federation's Digital Government Program
"The NSF's Digital Government Program partners leading-edge computer scientists with forward-thinking government agencies to explore and develop new information technologies that will improve the way government serves the American people."

Digital Heritage and Cultural Content (DIGICULT)
 "...one of the five main areas for research and technological development under Multimedia Content and Tools - Key Action 3 of the Information Society Technologies (IST) programme. Work is aimed at expanding the contribution of libraries, museums and archives to the emerging culture economy, including economic, scientific and technological development. It is coordinated by the European Commission's Cultural Heritage Applications unit, DG INFSO D-2, in Luxembourg."

Digital Initiatives at RLG
An overview of Research Libraries Groups digital collections projects, research and working groups and links to other related projects

Digital Libraries Initiative
Brief overview of the six national projects, including links to DLI Workshop series, and DLI publications

Digital Libraries Initiative Phase 2
Sections include: DLI2 Funded Projects ; International Projects ; Special Projects ITR ; Special Projects Program ; Funded Workshops ; News & Events ; Newsletters & Magazines ; Mailing Lists ; Contacts ; Glossary ; Photo Gallery.
- National Science Foundation

Digital Library Federation (DLF)
"The site offers you information about developing digital collections and managing networked information for the benefit of scholarship, education, and cultural progress ... The Digital Library Federation (DLF) is a consortium of libraries and related agencies that are pioneering in the use of electronic-information technologies to extend their collections and services."

Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC)
"...was established in 2001 to foster joint action to address the urgent challenges of securing the preservation of digital resources in the UK and to work with others internationally to secure our global digital memory and knowledge base."

DoIS - Documents in Information Science
"...a service for finding and downloading the latest research results in Information Science. DoIS is a database of articles and conference proceedings published in electronic format in the area of Library and Information Science. DoIS is a volunteer effort to create a free bibliographic resource of scientific texts specialized in Information Science."

Dublin Core Metadata Initiative: Dublin Core Qualifiers
"This document presents the results of a process to develop exemplary qualifiers for the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set (DCMES). The qualifiers listed here were identified in element-specific working groups of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) and judged by the DCMI Usage Committee to be in conformance with principles of good practice for the qualification of Dublin Core metadata elements."

E-LIS - E-Prints in Library and Information Science
"E-LIS is an open access archive for scientific or technical documents, published or unpublished, on Librarianship, Information Science and Technology, and related areas...Established by RCLIS (Research in Computing, Library and Information Science) and DoIS (Documents in Information Science).

Electronic Textbook Design Guidelines
By Ruth Wilson and Monica Landoni, Computer and Information Science Dept., University of Strathclyde, UK

First Monday
Peer-Reviewed Journal on the Internet

  • Sharing Digital Resources: Web-Wise 2004 - (dead link) (May 2004 Theme)
    "Selected papers from the Fifth Annual Conference on Libraries and Museums in the Digital World."
  • Building Digital Communities: Web-Wise 2002 - (dead link) (May 2002 Theme)
    "Papers from the Third Annual Conference on Libraries and Museums in the Digital World."

The Free Online Scholarship Newsletter
"The purpose of the newsletter is to share news and discussion on the migration of print scholarship to the internet and efforts to make it available to readers free of charge ... The audience I have in mind consists of scholars, researchers, scientists, teachers, students, librarians, editors, and publishers. I want to the newsletter to cover all academic fields and all FOS initiatives."
By Peter Suber, Dept. of Philosophy, Earlham College

Ejournals
Health science Ejournal information from the National Library of Medicine

Greenstone Digital Library Software - (dead link)
"...is a suite of software for building and distributing digital library collections. It provides a new way of organizing information and publishing it on the Internet or on CD-ROM...The aim of the software is to empower users, particularly in universities, libraries, and other public service institutions, to build their own digital libraries."
Produced by the New Zealand Digital Library Project, University of Waikato

Guides to Quality in Visual Resource Imaging
By the Research Libraries Group (RLG), Digital Libraries Federation, and the Council on Library and Information Resources.

Handbook for Digital Projects: A Management Tool for Preservation and Access - (dead link)
Maxine K. Sitts, Editor; 1st ed., 2000.

Introduction to Metadata: Pathways to Digital Information
Getty Research Institute

Jointly Administered Knowledge Environment (jake) - (dead link) "...is a reference source which makes finding, managing, and linking online journals and journal articles easier for students, researchers, and librarians. jake does this by managing online resource metadata with a database union list, title authority control, and linking tools, as well as making it easy to add a local holdings layer. jake is free for anyone to use, modify, copy, or redistribute under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) ... Currently jake can be searched using this simple web form - (dead link). You can search for any journal title; there are over 23,000 prominent journals which are 'cross-referenced': this means that these oft-indexed titles can be found using any of the several title variations various e-resources use."
Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, Yale University School of Medicine

Journal of Digital Contents (JDC) (ejournal)
"The international Journal of Digital Contents (JCD) is a quarterly journal about the planning, production, process, presentation and managment of digital contents, from several perspectives: technical, educational and social/legal."

Journal of Digital Information - (dead link)

Journal of Electronic Publishing

Library of Congress - Digital Interlibrary Loan
"This is a pilot project to explore the practicality of scanning, storing, and delivering materials that have actually been requested by patrons. For the purposes of the pilot, the titles selected are in the public domain, are non-circulating because of physical condition, can be captured in a relatively small file, and have a cataloging record in the Library of Congress catalog in which to place a link."

LiveRef
A Registry of Real-Time Digital Reference Services
"...is a categorized listing of libraries that offer real-time Library reference or information services using chat software, live interactive communications utilities, call center management software, Web contact center software, bulletin board services, or related Internet technologies. Use of the listed services may be restricted or limited to affiliated students, faculty, staff, or members."
Compiled and maintained by Gerry McKiernan, Science and Technology Librarian and Bibliographer, Iowa State University Library

Library Resource List: Library Technology
A section from Bob Bocher's Library Resouce List page.
"The first section of this page has sites related to libraries and their use of technology and the Internet. It includes a subsection targeted at public libraries. The next section focuses on the evolving National Information Infrastructure (NII). A third section tracks more general information technology (IT) news and developments. Finally, there is a link to a separate page on the Telecommunications Act of 1996 looking specifically at the Universal Service and the Communications Decency sections of the act."
Maintained by Bob Bocher, Library Technology Consultant, WI Division for Libraries and Community Learning

Library Technology Planning
An Outline of the Process
By Bob Bocher, Library Technology Consultant, WI Dept. of Public Instruction

Moving Theory into Practice: Digital Imaging Tutorial (English or Spanish)
"Thistutorial offers base-level information on the use of digital imaging to convert and make accessible cultural heritage materials. It also introduces some concepts advocated by Cornell University Library, in particular the value of benchmarking requirements before undertaking a digital initiative. You will find here up-to-date technical information, formulas, and reality checks, designed to test your level of understanding...The tutorial can stand on its own, but it is intended to be used in tandem with two other products. The first is Moving Theory into Practice: Digital Imaging for Libraries and Archives, by Anne R. Kenney and Oya Y. Rieger (RLG, 2000)...The second product is a series of week-long workshops, also entitled Moving Theory into Practice."
Dept. of Preservation and Conservation, Colgate University Library

National Academy Press (free online versions)

Open Archives Initiative
"...develops and promotes interoperability standards that aim to facilitate the efficient dissemination of content. The Open Archives Initiative has its roots in an effort to enhance access to e-print archives as a means of increasing the availability of scholarly communication."
Sections include: Documents ; Tools ; Community ; News ; Organization.

PADI - Preserving Access to Digital Information
"PADI is a subject gateway to digital preservation resources"
Sections include: Projects ; Organizations ; Bibliographies ; Discussion Lists ; Glossaries ; Journals ; Digital Libraries ; Issues ; Strategies...and more.
- National Library of Australia

  • padiforum-l
    "...is a moderated discussion list for the exchange of news and ideas about digital preservation issues. Subscribers are encouraged to post digital preservation news, including announcements of forthcoming events, to padiforum-l. Discussion on all aspects of preserving access to digital information is also welcome."

PALMM (Publication of Archival Library & Museum Materials)
"...is a program of the libraries of the State University System of Florida (SUS) designed to provide support to individual and cooperative digital library initiatives...Currently under construction, the PALMM website will contain...a searchable database of PALMM collections and related collections belonging to SUS institutions or geographically or thematically pertaining to the state of Florida."

Preserving Digital Information: Final Report and Recommendations
Task force cosponsored by the Commission on Preservation and Access (CPA) and the Research Libraries Group (RLG)

Public-Access Computer System Review
"An electronic journal about end-user computer systems in libraries. It is distributed at no charge on the Internet and other computer networks. The journal publishes papers on topics such as digital libraries, document delivery systems, electronic publishing, expert systems, hypermedia and multimedia systems, locally mounted databases, network-based information resources and tools, and online catalogs."

The Queen's University of Belfast - The Centre for Data Digitisation and Analysis

The Relationship Between Digital and Other Media Conversion Process: A Structure Glossary of Technical Terms
By M. Stuart Lynn and the Technology Assessment Advisory Committee (TAAC) of the Commission on Preservation and Access

ResearchIndex - (dead link)
The NECI Scientific Literature Digital Library
"...a scientific literature digital library that aims to improve the dissemination and feedback of scientific literature, and to provide improvements in functionality, usability, availability, cost, comprehensiveness, efficiency, and timeliness ...
Rather than creating just another digital library, ResearchIndex provides algorithms, techniques, and software that can be used in other digital libraries."

RLG DigiNews
A quarterly web-based newsletter focusing on "on issues of particular interest and value to managers of digital initiatives with a preservation component or rationale"

Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography
"This bibliography presents selected English-language articles, books, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet."
By Charles W. Bailey, Jr.

Scientific and Technical Reports - Elements, Organization and Design
"This revision of Z39.18-1987 brings the standard on report writing into the electronic age by including de facto document type definitions (DTDs) to describe the structure of reports so the document can be electronically processed using document imaging, OCR, compression/decompression, and optical media storage of full text."
Free pdf version
By National Information Standards Organization, 1995

SiliconBase
Information Technology & Society Project
"As the hub of ITSP activities, SiliconBase includes a digital archive, courseware, and original content developed by ITSP staff and affiliates."

Subject Index to Literature on Electronic Sources of Information
By Marian Dworaczek

The Tacis : Russian State Library Information Project - (dead link) (English or Russian)

Text Encoding Initiative (TEI)
"...is an international and interdisciplinary standard that helps libraries, museums, publishers, and individual scholars represent all kinds of literary and linguistic texts for online research and teaching, using an encoding scheme that is maximally expressive and minimally obsolescent."

  • The TEI Guidelines - (dead link)
    Sperberg-McQueen, C.M.. and Burnard, L. (eds.) (2002). TEI P4: Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange.

UC Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE
Includes catalogs and indexes, text and image collections, information for digital library developers, research and development section, and section on software for building digital libraries

University of Strathclyde (UK) - Centre for Digital Library Research (CDLR)
"...seeks to combine theory with practice in innovative ways with the aim of being a centre of excellence on digital libraries issues ranging from information policy and information retrieval to document storage technologies and standards."

Technical Advisory Services for Images (TASI) - (dead link) "The Technical Advisory Service for Images (TASI) has been funded to: 'Advise and support the academic community on the digital creation, storage and delivery of image-related information.'"
Institute for Learning and Research Technology

UKOLN
"A centre of expertise in digital information management, providing advice and services to the library, information, education and cultural heritage communities."

  • NOF-digitise Technical Advisory Service - (dead link)
    • Information Papers
      "This series of papers is intended to address key areas affecting the successful developments of digitisation projects."

University of Michigan Digital Library Project (UMDL)

Video Streaming: A Guide for Educational Development - (dead link)
"Click and Go Video have produced a free guide to aid non-technical and technical individuals through the decisions and processes needed to produce good learning and teaching video that is suitable for broadcasting on the web."
Information Systems Department - University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology

Virtual Reference Desk
"The Virtual Reference Desk Project is dedicated to the advancement of digital reference and the successful creation and operation of human-mediated, Internet-based information services."
- Sponsored by the U.S. Dept. of Education

VISION Project for Shared Visual Resources Records
A joint project of The Visual Resources Association (VRA) and the Research Libraries Group (RLG) "this effort is designed to bring more visual resources information online; promulgate and test the use of standards for creating and sharing such information; and evaluate the new data's value in the context of existing RLG research information databases."

Washington State Library Digital Best Practices
"This site will guide you through the major decisions points in planning a digital project by offering you several categories of information to consult and pointing your a variety of resources."
Sections include: Project Management ; Collection ; Technology ; Funding ; Follow a Scenario ; View a Digital Project.




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