DIGITAL LIBRARIES: Resources and Projects
COLLECTIONS
The World Digital Library will make available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from cultures around the world, including manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, architectural drawings, and other significant cultural materials. The objectives of the World Digital Library are to promote international and inter-cultural understanding and awareness, provide resources to educators, expand non-English and non-Western content on the Internet, and to contribute to scholarly research.
http://www.worlddigitallibrary.org/project/english/
Charles Templeton collected a wide range of music memorabilia. Included among his treasures is a collection of some 22,000 pieces of sheet music from late nineteenth and early twentieth century America. The sheet music illustrates a broad spectra of music genres, from the ragtime of Scott Joplin to the dixieland of W. C. Handy to the smooth ballads of Irving Berlin to the stirring patriotic anthems of John Phillips Sousa and George M. Cohan to the early roots of big band sounds.
http://library.msstate.edu/ragtime/
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Anderson, Elizabeth, et. al.
Digitizing Legacy Documents: A Knowledge-Based Preservation Project. Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, September 1998. PDF: http://www.ifla.org/documents/libraries/net/tm-2056.pdf
Andersson, U.
Short version of the Sesam report: philosophy and rules concerning electronic archives and authenticity. In: Proceedings of the DLM-Forum on Electronic Records, Brussels, 18-20 December 1996. INSAR: European Archives News, Supplement II. Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, pp. 175-189, 1997.
Arts and Humanities Data Service.
A Strategic Policy Framework for Creating and Preserving Digital Collections. October 23, 1995.
http://www.ifla.org/II/%20http://ahds.ac.uk/manage/framework.htm
Association of Research Libraries.
Definition and Purposes of a Digital Library. October 23, 1995.
http://www.ifla.org/documents/libraries/net/arl-dlib.txt
Bailey, C.W.
Scholarly electronic publishing bibliography.
http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html
Bauwens, Michel.
Cybrarians Manifesto. Business Information Review, April 1993. Posted to PACS-L, April 20, 1993.
http://www.ifla.org/documents/libraries/net/baum1.txt
Beagrie, N. and Greenstein, D.
A strategic policy framework for creating and preserving digital collections: a report to the Digital Archiving Working Group. British Library Research and Innovation report, 107 London: British Library Research and Innovation Centre, July 1998.
http://ahds.ac.uk/manage/framework.htm
Bearman, David.
Virtual Archives. ICA Meeting, September 1996, Beijing. Draft paper.
http://www.ifla.org/documents/libraries/net/bearman.txt
British Library.
The British Library Information Systems Strategy. November 1995.
http://www.bl.uk/services/information.html
Davis, James R. and Lagoze, Carl.
Dienst, A Protocol for a Distributed Digital Document Library. "This document describes Dienst, a protocol for communication with distributed digital library servers. This protocol provides an object-oriented interface to a document model, which allows a user to access complete documents or named sub-parts. It also supports multiple formats for documents. Dienst protocol messages are embedded within HTTP, the protocol used over the World Wide Web. Thus, anyone using a Web browser (e.g. Mosaic, Cello) has access to the services provided by Dienst."
http://www.broadcatch.com/dienst.html
Day, M.W.
Preservation of electronic information: a bibliography.
http://homes.ukoln.ac.uk/~lismd/preservation.html
Digital Preservation Consortium.
Mission and Goals. March 1994.
http://www.ifla.org/documents/libraries/net/dpc1.txt
Dempsey, Lorcan.
Network resource discovery: a European library perspective. British Library. Research and Development Department, 1994.
http://www.lub.lu.se/UB2proj/LIS_collection/lorcan.html
Galloway, Edward A., and Gabrielle V. Michalek.
The Heinz Electronic Library Interactive Online System (HELIOS): Building a Digital Archive Using Imaging, OCR, and Natural Language Processing Technologies. The Public-Access Computer Systems Review 6, no. 4 (1995).
http://www.ifla.org/documents/libraries/net/gale1.txt
Gladney, Henry M. et. al.
Digital Library: Gross Structure and Requirements (Report from a Workshop.) IBM Research Report RJ 9840, May 1994. "Notwithstanding our enthusiasm for what digital library services promise, we feel that glib calls to replace convential publication entirely must be regarded skeptically. Preserving the cultural heritage ... has been better served by paper than digital means currently promise, and there is little funded work towards remedying this." PDF: http://www.ifla.org/documents/libraries/net/rj9840.pdf
Graham, Peter.
Requirements for the Digital Research Library. College and Research Libraries, July, 1995, p. 331-339.
http://www.ifla.org/documents/libraries/net/drc.htm
Graham, Peter.
Intellectual Preservation: Electronic Preservation of the Third Kind. Washington, DC: Commission on Preservation and Access, March, 1994.
http://www.ifla.org/documents/libraries/net/cpaintpr.htm
Graham, Peter.
Long-Term Intellectual Preservation. RLG Symposium on Digital Imaging Technology at Cornell University, March, 1994.
http://www.ifla.org/documents/libraries/net/dps.htm
Graham, Peter.
Intellectual Preservation in the Electronic Environment. (1992) Arnold Hirshon, ed., After the Electronic Revolution, Will You Be the First to Go? Proceedings of the 1992 Association for Library Collections and Technical Services President's Program (Chicago: ALA, 1993).
http://www.ifla.org/documents/libraries/net/intpres_.htm
Kuny, Terry and Cleveland, Gary.
Digital Libraries: Myths and Challenges. Paper delivered at the 62nd IFLA General Conference - August 25-31, 1996. PDF: http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla62/62-kuny.pdf
Lesk, Michael.
Image Formats for Preservation and Access. Commission for Preservation and Access. Technology Assessment Advisory Committee. July 1990.
http://www.ifla.org/documents/libraries/net/lesk.txt
Lesk, Michael.
The Seven Ages of Information Retrieval.
http://www.ifla.org/VI/5/op/udtop5/udtop5.htm
Librarians Association of the University of California.
New Horizons in Scholarly Communications.
http://www.ucop.edu/lauc/
The Library and Information Commission. (UK)
Virtually New - Creating the Digital Collection: A Review of Digitisation Projects in Local Authorities, Libraries and Archives.
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/services/lic/digitisation/
National Digital Library Federation (NDLF).
NDLF Planning Task Force. Final Report. June 1996.
http://www.ifla.org/documents/libraries/net/plntfrep.htm
National Digital Library Federation (NDLF).
National Digital Library Federation Agreement Signed. May 1, 1995. Leaders of fifteen of the U.S.'s largest research libraries and archives and the Commission on Preservation and Access sign an agreement that pledges collaboration toward the establishment of a National Digital Library Federation.
http://www.ifla.org/documents/libraries/net/digfed1.htm
http://lcweb.loc.gov/loc/ndlf/agree.html
National Digital Library Federation (NDLF).
America's Heritage: Mission and Goals for a National Digital Library Federation.
http://www.ifla.org/documents/libraries/net/digfed2.htm
OCLC.
Tomorrow's Access, Today's Decisions: Ensuring Access to Today's Electronic Resources Tomorrow. Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual Conference of Research Library Directors. Sponsored by OCLC and the OCLC Research Libraries Advisory Committee.
http://www.oclc.org/oclc/man/9680rldc/toc.htm
Newby, Gregory B.
The Digital Electronic Library. January 29, 1991.
http://www.ifla.org/documents/libraries/net/newby.txt
Pitti, Daniel V.
The Berkeley Finding Aid Project: Standards in Navigation. University of California, Berkeley.
http://www.ifla.org/documents/libraries/net/pitd1.txt
Schwartz, Michael, ed.
Report of the Distributed Indexing/Searching Workshop. May 28-19, 1996. Cambridge, Massachusetts. Sponsored by the World Wide Web Consortium.
http://www.w3.org/Search/9605-Indexing-Workshop/
Task Force on Archiving Digital Information.
Preserving Digital Information: Final Report and Recommendations. May 20, 1996.
http://www.rlg.org/ArchTF/index.html PDF: http://www.ifla.org//documents/libraries/net/tfadi-fr.pdf
Time and Bits. An integrated technical and philosophical discussion of digital archives and their future that includes the socio-cultural and economic implications of both the problems and the solutions that could provide a framework for long-term digital cultural preservation.
http://www.getty.edu/bookstore/titles/time.html
Various.
Some Considerations on the Archiving of Digital Information. January, 1995.
http://www.ifla.org/documents/libraries/net/waters1.htm
Waters, Don.
Some Considerations on the Archiving of Digital Information. January, 1995.
http://www.ifla.org/documents/libraries/net/waters1.htm
Waters, Don.
The Social Organization of Archiving Digital Information.
http://www.ifla.org/documents/libraries/net/waters2.htm
PERIODICALS
D-Lib Magazine (Digital Library Magazine)
http://www.dlib.org/
International Journal on Digital Libraries. Quarterly.
http://link.springer.de/link/service/journals/00799/
Journal of Electronic Publishing
http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/
The National Digital Library Program. Library of Congress.
http://lcweb.loc.gov/ndl/per.html
RLG DigiNews
http://www.rlg.org/toc.html
CONFERENCES
Digital Libraries à la Carte: Choices for the Future
Module 1: Technological developments: Threats and opportunities for libraries
Module 2: Hands-on: Library 2.0 technologies to reach out to the customer
Module 3: Libraries supporting research and Open Access
Module 4: Libraries and teaching and learning
Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands, 22-25 August 2006
http://www.ticer.nl/06carte/
International Summer School on the Digital Library Course 1: Leaders' Visions on the Library of the Future
Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands, 10 - 12 August 2003
http://www.ticer.nl/summer03/course1/
Course 2: Change: Making it Happen in your Library
Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands, 12 - 15 August 2003
http://www.ticer.nl/summer03/course2/
Course 3: Libraries, Electronic Resources, and Electronic Publishing
Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands, 24 - 27 August 2003
http://www.ticer.nl/summer03/course3/
The Sixth International Summer School on Digital Libraries - Course 1: The Management of Change (Tilburg University, the Netherlands, 30 July - 3 August 2001) - Course 2: Ditial Libraries and the Changing World of Education (Tilburg University, the Netherlands, 5 - 10 August 2001) - Course 3: Electronic Publishing (European University Institute, Italy, 7 - 12 October 2001)
http://www.ticer.nl/summer01/
(The 2001 Summer School was discussed in a D-Lib article http://www.dlib.org/dlib/november01/prinsen/11prinsen.html
The Fifth International Summer School on the Digital Library July 31 - 11 August, 2000: Tilburg University, Netherlands
http://www.ticer.nl/summer00/
Digital Libraries '99: Fourth ACM Conference on Digital Libraries. August 11-14, 1999: University of California, Berkeley.
http://fox.cs.vt.edu/DL99/
ADL '99: Advances in Digital Libraries Conference. May 19-21, 1999: Baltimore, MD.
http://cimic.rutgers.edu/adl99/
Ninth DELOS Workshop: Digital Libraries for Distance Learning. April 15-17, 1999: Brno, Czech Republic.
http://www.ercim.org/publication/ws-proceedings/DELOS9/index.html
Eighth DELOS Workshop: User Interface in Digital Libraries. October 21-23, 1998: Stockholm, Sweden.
http://www.ercim.org/publication/ws-proceedings/DELOS8/index.html
Digital Libraries '98: Third ACM Conference on Digital Libraries. June 24-27, 1998: Pittsburgh, PA.
http://www.acm.org/pubs/contents/proceedings/dl/276675/
Sixth DELOS Workshop: Preservation of Digital Information. June 17-19, 1998: Tomar, Portugal.
http://www.ercim.org/publication/ws-proceedings/DELOS6/index.html
Digital Libraries Asia 98 Conference & Exhibition: The Digital Era: Implications, Challenges & Issues. March 17-20, 1998: Singapore.
http://dla98.digilib.org.sg/
Fifth DELOS Workshop: Filtering and Collaborative Filtering. November 10-12, 1997:Budapest, Hungary.
http://www.ercim.org/publication/ws-proceedings/DELOS5/index.html
First European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. September 1-3, 1997: Pisa, Italy.
http://www.ercim.org/publication/Ercim_News/enw31/peters.html
ELVIRA 4 (Electronic Library and Visual Information) Conference on Digital Library Research. May 6-8, 1997: Milton Keynes, UK.
http://www.iielr.dmu.ac.uk/ELVIRA/ELVIRA4/
First DELOS Workshop: An Overview on Projects and Research Activities in Digital Library Related Fields. March 4-6, 1996: INRIA - Sophia Antipolis.
http://www.ercim.org/publication/ws-proceedings/DELOS1/index.html
Proceedings of the First IEEE Metadata Conference April 16-18, 1996: Silver Spring, Maryland.
http://www.computer.org/conferences/meta96/meta_home.html
ACM Digital Libraries '96. First ACM International Conference on Research and Development in Digital Libraries (announcement).
http://fox.cs.vt.edu/DL96/
International World Wide Web Conferences.
http://www.iw3c2.org/
ORGANIZATIONS
IEEE.
Digital Library Task Force.
http://cimic.rutgers.edu/ieee_dltf.html
[Australia] Management of Material in Electronic Format Working Party.
Towards Federation 2001 - Linking Australians and their Heritage. "A national consultative conference, hosted by the National Library of Australia, on access to Australia' recorded documentary heritage was held in Canberra, Australia on 23-26 March 1992. The conference has 86 resolutions as its outcome and since that time the National Library of Australia has engaged in a thorough assessment of each resolution, its progress or lack thereof, and possible changes in the objective or action mechanism which might lead to faster and better progress in the future."
http://www.nla.gov.au/pub/tf2001.html
[Australia]
Preserving Access to Digital Information (PADI).
http://www.nla.gov.au/padi/
[Australia]
Photographic Libraries
http://www.photographiclibraries.com/
[European Union] European Commission.
Telematics for Libraries Programme. Research and Development in the libraries sector of the Telematics Programme aims to facilitate access to the wealth of knowledge held in libraries throughout the European Union, while reducing disparities between national systems and practice. This is a comprehensive and important entry point for information about European digital library projects.
http://www.echo.lu/libraries/en/libraries.html
[Europe]
DLM-FORUM Electronic Record.
http://europa.eu.int/ISPO/dlm/
[Europe]
European Preservation Information Centre (EPIC).
http://www.knaw.nl/ecpa/
[International] International Council of Archives.
Committee on Electronic Records.
http://www.ica.org/
[International]
Digital Library Colaboratory Working Groups.
http://www.si.umich.edu/UMDL/EU_Grant/home.htm
[International] International Standards Organisation (ISO).
Open Archival Information (OAIS) Standard.
http://ssdoo.gsfc.nasa.gov/nost/isoas/overview.html
[South Asia]
Digital South Asia Library (DSAL) The Digital South Asia Library is a global collaborative effort to make important and rare resources available to the international community. DSAL includes resources from many disciplines as well as a variety of data types. The component parts of the project include maps, statistics, bibliographies, union lists, indexes, photographs, books and journals, as well as a reference collection that is strong in pedagogical tools for South Asian language learning.
http://dsal.uchicago.edu/
[United Kingdom] Public Record Office.
International Institute for Electronic Library Research. The PRO has established two digital preservation programmes, EROS (Electronic Records from Office Systems) for the records created in the office networks being introduced by government bodies, and NDAD (UK National Digital Archive of Datasets at <http://ndad.ulcc.ac.uk>) for structured datasets, such as survey files and databases, in government departments.
http://www.pro.gov.uk/
[UNESCO]
Memory of the World. "The twofold purpose of the UNESCO's "Memory of the World" programme is to safeguard and promote the endangered world documentary heritage."
http://www.unesco.org/webworld/memory/mempage.htm
[US]
Association of Research Libraries (ARL).
http://www.arl.org/
[US] National Archives and Records Administration.
Records Center Program.
http://www.archives.gov/records_center_program/index.html
[US]
Center for the Study of Digital Libraries. Texas A&M University.
http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/
[US]
Center for Networked Information Discovery and Retrieval (CNIDR).
http://www.mcnc-rdi.org/
[US]
Coalition for Networked Information.
http://www.cni.org/
[US]
Commission on Preservation and Access.
http://www.clir.org/pubs/cpanews/cpanews.html
[US]
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR). A strategic undertaking of the ICPSR is the acquisition and long-term preservation of social science data.
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/ICPSR/
[US]
Massachusetts Historical Society.
http://www.masshist.org/
[US]
Museum Computer Network.
http://www.mcn.edu/
[US] National Archives and Records Administration.
Center for Electronic Records.
http://www.archives.gov/
[US]
National Digital Library Federation (NDLF).
http://lcweb.loc.gov/loc/ndlf/
[US]
National Science Foundation (NSF). Digital Libraries Initiative.
http://www.nsf.gov/
[US]
OCLC: Online Computer Library Center
http://www.oclc.org/
[US]
Research Libraries Group.
http://www.rlg.org/
[US]
Digital Library SunSITE. University of California, Berkeley
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/
[US]
Universal Preservation Format. This site disseminates information about the proposed universal preservation format and related initiatives.
http://info.wgbh.org/upf/
PROJECTS: GENERAL INDICES
Adams Family Papers: An Electronic Archive
http://www.masshist.org/digitaladams/
Thomas Jefferson Papers: An Electronic Archive
http://www.thomasjeffersonpapers.org/
EXAMPLES: LIBRARY PRODUCED WWW SERVICES AND GUIDES
The Argus Clearinghouse.
http://www.clearinghouse.net/
Berkeley Public Library Home Page.
http://www.infopeople.org/bpl/
BYU Libraries Information Network .
http://www.lib.byu.edu/
Connecticut Library Home Page.
http://www.ctstateu.edu/libraries.html
INFOMINE. A collaborative project which includes participants from all 9 University of California campuses and Stanford University. One of the first academic virtual libraries.
http://infomine.ucr.edu/
Larry Schankman's Best of the Best.
http://www.clark.net/pub/lschank/web/subject.html
EXAMPLES: DIRECTORIES, INDICES, DATABASES AND GUIDES FOR INFORMATION ACCESS AND ORGANIZATION
Association of Research Libraries Digital Initiatives Database.
http://www.arl.org/did/
The HCI Bibliography Project. A free-access online extended bibliography on Human-Computer Interaction
http://www.hcibib.org/
Joel's Hierarchical Subject Index.
http://www.teco.uni-karlsruhe.de/~michael/joels.html
WWW Virtual Library.
http://www.vlib.org/
Yanoff's Special Internet Connections.
http://www.spectracom.com/islist/
PROJECTS: AMERICAS
Abacci Books
Free literary resources on the net At Abacci Books they combined two literary resources of the net: Project Gutenberg and Amazon, to produce a new view of the world's best free literature.
http://www.abacci.com/books/default.asp
Carnegie-Mellon.
Digital Video Library. "The Informedia (tm) Digital Video Library project will establish a large, on-line digital video library by developing intelligent, automatic mechanisms to populate the library and allow for full-content and knowledge-based search and retrieval via desktop computer and metropolitan area networks. Initially, the library will be populated with 1000 hours of raw and edited video drawn from video assets of WQED/Pittsburgh, Fairfax County (VA) Public Schools, and the Open University (U.K.). We will deploy the library at Carnegie Mellon University and local area K-12 Schools."
http://www.informedia.cs.cmu.edu/
Columbia University.
Oversized Colour Images Digitization Project. "This URL contains the results of a project, under contract to the Commission on Preservation and Access, to identify the most acceptable preservation and access techniques available for oversize, color images associated with text. Five maps from brittle volumes have been scanned, as have single-frame color microfiche of the maps (produced during an earlier Commission-sponsored project) and 4 x 5 color transparencies. Paper printouts have been made from each digital version."
http://www.columbia.edu/dlc/nysmb/
Columbia University.
Project Bartleby: The Public Library of the Internet. "Bartleby's 3,000 pages of text on-line may not seem monumental at first, but consider that Whitman's Leaves of Grass released in March 1994 was one of the first on-line books of classic literature that was "native" to hypertext on the WorldWide Web; that Project Bartleby is currently one of the largest public collections of on-line literature; and that it's considered the finest example of public electronic publishing--maintaining strict editorial and quality-control procedures."
http://www.bartleby.com/
Cornell University.
CUPID - Consortium for University Printing and Information Distribution. "'CUPID' is an acronym for the Consortium for University Printing and Information Distribution, an informal and open collection of colleges and universities interested in the distributed printing over the Internet of finished, high-quality, production documents. CUPID was created four years ago by the Xerox University Advisory Panel and now exists as a project under CNI (the Coalition for Networked Information), receiving financial support from Kodak, Sun, and Xerox."
http://www.cni.org/projects/CUPID/
Emory University.
Digital Library Project. "In today's environment access to networked information is rapidly transforming libraries and reducing reliance on vast, locally-owned print collections. With support from the Luce Foundation in New York City, Emory University has undertaken a three year project to develop a blueprint for a prototype digital library. [...] Emory will explore the many governance, organizational, economic, educational, and technological issues to be faced in developing and implementing this prototype."
http://www.library.emory.edu/VL/vlhome.html
IBM.
Digital Library. Includes work with the Vatican Library, Institute for Scientific Information, and the Los Angeles Public Library.
http://www-4.ibm.com/software/is/dig-lib/
Library of Congress.
Digital Library Collections.
http://lcweb.loc.gov/
American Memory.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/amhome.html
American Memory Background Papers and Technical Information.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ftpfiles.html
American Special Collections.
http://lcweb.loc.gov/spcoll/spclhome.html
Country Studies/Area Handbook Program.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html
Electronic Exhibits.
http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/
THOMAS: Legislative Information on the Internet.
http://thomas.loc.gov/
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
Digital Library Technology Project - Core Technologies for the National Information Infrastructure. "The Digital Library Technology (DLT) project and the Public Use of Remote Sensing Data (RSD) project, are two related elements of the Information Infrastructure Technology and Applications component of NASA's High Performance Computing and Communications Program. The DLT Project supports the development of new technologies to facilitate public access to NASA data via computer networks. Of highest priority are those technologies that develop tools, applications, and software and hardware systems that are able to scale upward to accomodate evolving user requirements and order-of-magnitude increases in user access. Although most of the technology is envisioned to be developed in the private sector, an inhouse skill base must be acquired and maintained in key areas of developing technology such as the integration of multimedia data, wide-area networking, resource discovery, and intelligent information retrieval."
http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/nasa_gen/
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
Public Use of Remote Sensing Data - Core Technologies for the National Information Infrastructure. The RSD Program is part of the Information Infrastructure Technology and Applications (IITA) component of the High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC) initiative.
http://rsd.gsfc.nasa.gov/rsd/
National Library of Canada.
Electronic Collection. "The NLC electronic collection incorporates formally published Canadian online books and journals. These publications are being acquired, catalogued, and permanently stored at the NLC. Public access is provided on the Internet through the World Wide Web. Catalogue records for Electronic Collection titles, including the Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), are available on NLC's AMICUS system and on resAnet."
http://collection.nlc-bnc.ca/e-coll-e/index-e.htm
National Library of Canada.
Inventory of Canadian Digital Initiatives. "The Canadian Inventory of Digital Initiatives provides descriptions of Canadian information resources created for the Web, including general digital collections, resources centred around a particular theme, and reference sources and databases."
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/bulletin/015017-0003-11-e.html
Research Libraries Group.
Electronic Publications Pilot Project. "RLG and its members will use their experience and collaborative infrastructure in digital collection projects -- coordinating selection and digitization; resolving intellectual control and access issues; establishing digital archives and protocols for their lasting operation -- and bridging the gap between bibliographic citations and digitized information objects. "
http://www.rlg.org/
Stanford Digital Library Technologies "The goal of the Stanford Digital Library project is to develop the enabling technologies for a single, integrated and "universal" library, composed from the large numbers of emerging individual heterogeneous repositories. Our definition of a constituent repository includes everything from personal information collections to the collections in conventional libraries and large data collections shared by scientists. Our technology will provide the "glue" that will make this worldwide collection usable as a unified entity, in a scaleable and economically feasible fashion."
http://dbpubs.stanford.edu:8091/
University of California, Berkeley.
Digital Library Project. "This project will produce a prototype digital library with a focus on environmental information. The library will collect diverse information about the environment to be used for the preparation and evaluation of environmental data, impact reports and related materials. The research prototype is intended for eventual full-scale deployment in the State of California's CERES production systems. To create the prototype, researchers will need to produce technologies which allow untrained users to contribute to and find relevant information in other world-wide digital library systems. Research areas include automated indexing, intelligent retrieval and search processes; database technology to support digital library applications;new approaches to document analysis; and, data compression and communication tools for remote browsing."
http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu/
University of California: Santa Barbara.
Alexandria Digital Library. "Project Alexandria will develop a digital library providing easy access to large and diverse collections of maps, images and pictorial materials as well as a full range of new electronic library services. The project is centered at the University of California, Santa Barbara, with its major collections of maps and images and its strong research focus in the area of spatially-indexed information. It also involves the State University of New York at Buffalo (SUNY-Buffalo), the University of Maine and several industrial partners."
http://alexandria.sdc.ucsb.edu/
University of Illinois.
Building the Interspace: Digital Library Infrastructure for a University Engineering Community. "The NSF/DARPA/NASA Digital Libraries Initiative (DLI) project at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), 1994-1998, had the goal of developing widely usable Web technology to effectively search technical documents on the Internet. Our efforts were concentrated on building an experimental testbed with tens of thousands of full-text journal articles from physics, engineering, and computer science, and making these articles available over the World Wide Web, often before they were available in print. The DLI Testbed focused on using the document structure to provide federated search across publisher collections."
http://dli.grainger.uiuc.edu/
University of Michigan.
Internet Public Library. "The Internet Public Library Project seeks to challenge and redefine the roles and significance of libraries in an increasingly distributed and digital world. Libraries have always been places of learning and excitement, opening new worlds of information, enlightenment and entertainment to all who enter. Libraries and the people who work in them are committed to democracy and equality of access, the dignity of their patrons, and the freedom to express and investigate all points of view."
http://www.ipl.org/
University of Michigan, et. al.
JSTOR - Journal Storage Project. JSTOR is a project of
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for development of a digital library in support of the arts and sciences. It will initially consist of about ten journal titles in the areas of economics and history and will initially contain approximately 750,000 journal page images.
http://www.jstor.org/
University of Michigan.
Digital Library Production Service (DLPS). "The Digital Library Production Service grew out of the Digital Library Program at the University of Michigan. The service was formed in response to a felt need for production level (twenty four hour a day, seven days a week) support for digital library resources. DLPS exists to provide ongoing development and support of digital library content and to provide a clearly articulated framework for production support and future project activity. The DLPS is responsible for the operation and maintenance of existing and new collections, including SGML text collections, journal images, museum images, and numeric/spatial data collections."
http://www.umdl.umich.edu/
University of Pittsburgh.
Digital Resesrch Project. "The Digital Research Library supports the teaching and research mission of the University of Pittsburgh and serves users of the University Library System through creation and maintenance of digital research collections."
http://digital.library.pitt.edu/
VE Multimedios.
Biblioteca Electrónica Cristiana. Spanish-language Catholic library
http://www.multimedios.org/
XEROX.
Digital Library related work at Xerox. We at Xerox are searching for ways to enhance the productivity of document intensive activites in the context of group work and within a variety of enterprises. Our method is to bring together our core competence in the areas of new document types, interface research, collaborative systems, information access to build practical systems that can be tested in actual use. e library represents a social activity in each of our core areas, and exposes a set of document issues that other organizations have only begun to recognize. The research initiative on Digital Libraries represents a unique opportunity to apply some of the technologies we have developed in conjunction with university partners in a function that will dominate work-practice in the NII-enabled work-force. This package contains overviews, bibliographies, and a prospectus of digital-library related research that we might engage in at PARC in conjunction with one or more partners in this initiative.
http://www.parc.xerox.com/parc-go.html
PROJECTS: EUROPE
European Union.
I3 - intelligent - information - interfaces. ESPRIT programme initiative on future interfaces to information.
http://www.cordis.lu/esprit/src/iii.htm
Joint Information Systems Committee. Follett Implementation Group on Information Technology (FIGIT). (United Kingdom).
Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib). The Higher Education Funding Bodies in the UK have invited proposals for projects which would "transform the use and storage of knowledge in higher education institutions". £315 million was allocated to the "Electronic Libraries Programme", managed by the Joint Information Systems Committee on behalf of the funding bodies. Currently, about 60 projects are being funded, though this number changes as some projects are completed while new ones are funded.
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/services/elib/
Lancaster University.
ARIADNE Collaborative Database Browsing Project.
http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/research/aai-aied/information/ariadne/
ARIADNE Links Index: locally used hotlist of digital libraries related resources.
http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/research/aai-aied/information/ariadne/links.html
Oxford University.
Scoping the Future of Oxford's Digital Collections. This report, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, makes concrete recommendations which can be implemented rapidly to satisfy the known and increasing needs of readers for digital materials, and proposes the establishment of a new body: the Oxford Digital Library Services (ODLS). This body would provide a co-ordinated set of services, building on Oxford’s expertise in this area, to help in the creation, management, and delivery of digital surrogates. The core component would be an on-demand digitization service, which would provide both a reactive (on-demand) service in response to user requests, and a proactive service that would target specific collections for digitization. The remit and components of the ODLS are outlined in the report.
http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/scoping/
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