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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 2005 Fox, Manduca & Iverson |
Building Educational Portals atop Digital Libraries The Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College (SERC) educational portals leverage the techniques and tools of the digital library community to bring cohesion and clarity to their presentation of information.  |
D-Lib February 2009 van Veen et al. |
Sharing Functionality on the Web: A Proposed Services Infrastructure for The European Library A Proposed Services Infrastructure for The European Library  |
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 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 Hughes & Kamat |
A Metadata Search Engine for Digital Language Archives Describes the design and implementation of a full-featured metadata search engine within the Open Language Archives Community (OLAC), a consortium of linguistic data archives.  |
D-Lib February 2008 |
Interoperability for Searching Learning Object Repositories: The ProLearn Query Language A crucial problem faced by the learning community is how to produce and deliver quality content for online learning experiences.  |
D-Lib Sep/Oct 2010 Ternier et al. |
The Simple Publishing Interface (SPI) The Simple Publishing Interface is a new publishing protocol, developed under the auspices of the European Committee for Standardization workshop on learning technologies.  |
D-Lib Nov/Dec 2012 Knoth & Zdrahal |
CORE: Three Access Levels to Underpin Open Access We present the CORE (COnnecting REpositories) system, a large-scale Open Access aggregation, outlining its existing functionality and discussing the future technical development.  |
D-Lib Nov/Dec 2009 Rehak, Nicholas & Ward |
Service-Oriented Models for Educational Resource Federations This article details a service-oriented model for a scalable infrastructure that supports resource federations for educational content, publishing, search, and metadata registries.  |
D-Lib March 2005 Theo van Veen |
Renewing the Information Infrastructure of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek The Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB) is engaged in a major renewal of its information infrastructure.  |
D-Lib August 2007 Hagedorn et al. |
Enhancing Search and Browse Using Automated Clustering of Subject Metadata Librarians are aware that it is often difficult to create simple interfaces to complex online resources; however, a marriage of the two worlds is not impossible.  |
D-Lib February 2004 Veen & Oldroyd |
Search and Retrieval in The European Library: A New Approach The objective of the European Library (TEL) project [TEL] was to set up a co-operative framework and specify a system for integrated access to the major collections of the European national libraries. This has been achieved by successfully applying a new approach for search and retrieval via URLs (SRU) [ZiNG] combined with a new metadata paradigm.  |
D-Lib April 2002 Erik Duval |
Metadata Principles and Practicalities There is much confusion about how metadata should be integrated into information systems. How is it to be created or extended? Who will manage it? How can it be used and exchanged? Whence comes its authority? Can different metadata standards be used together in a given environment?  |
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 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 Sep/Oct 2011 Neatrour et al. |
Automating the Production of Map Interfaces for Digital Collections Using Google APIs Many digital libraries are interested in taking advantage of the GIS mapping capabilities provided by Google Maps and Google Earth.  |
D-Lib January 2006 |
Automated Capture of Thumbnails and Thumbshots for Use by Metadata Aggregation Services The use of thumbnails and thumbshots is an example of one of the ways in which digital library services are evolving to take greater advantage of graphical presentation of resources.  |
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 2010 Manghi et al. |
Realizing and Maintaining Aggregative Digital Library Systems: D-NET Software Toolkit and OAIster System Aggregative Digital Library Systems (ADLSs) provide end users with web portals to operate over an information space of descriptive metadata records, collected and aggregated from a pool of possibly heterogeneous repositories  |
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...  |
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 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 November 2004 Senserini et al. |
Archiving and Accessing Web Pages: The Goddard Library Web Capture Project To ensure continued availability of these knowledge assets to the Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) community, the GSFC Library is working closely with others in the area of preservation to determine how to preserve the captured web sites once they are no longer maintained by the current owners or curators.  |
D-Lib October 2006 |
DLF-Aquifer Asset Actions Experiment: Demonstrating Value of Actionable URLs A report on a prototyping and demonstration experiment carried out by the DLF Aquifer Technology/Architecture Working Group.  |
D-Lib September 2006 Tanase, Joiner & Stuart-Moore |
Computational Science Educational Reference Desk: A Digital Library for Students, Educators, and Scientists The use of student partnering with faculty projects can be a method of generating high quality reviews that allows for minimal invasion of faculty time and excellent experience in doing and writing about math and science for undergraduate students, both among science students and education students.  |
D-Lib November 2005 Lagoze et al. |
What Is a Digital Library Anyway? Beyond Search and Access in the NSDL We are now in the adolescence of digital libraries. Like any adolescence, there is reason for optimism and concern.  |
D-Lib April 2001 Rachel Heery |
Renardus Project Developments and the Wider Digital Library Context The innovatory drive within the development of digital library services thrives on the tension between meeting both technical and social imperatives...  |
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.  |
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2004 Coleman, Bracke & Karthik |
Integration of Non-OAI Resources for Federated Searching in DLIST, an Eprints Repository Highlights of some of the limitations of proposed solutions to distributed archives as well as the added benefits for digital repository development that non-OAI (Open Archives Initiative) integration offers.  |
D-Lib Jan/Feb 2011 Starr & Gastl |
isCitedBy: A Metadata Scheme for DataCite The knitting together of published research articles and the research data that substantiate their findings is of increasing importance as more disciplines take advantage of data-driven approaches to knowledge acquisition.  |
D-Lib January 2002 William Y. Arms |
A Spectrum of Interoperability The Site for Science Prototype for the NSDL...  |
D-Lib September 2004 Summann & Lossau |
Search Engine Technology and Digital Libraries: Moving from Theory to Practice A description of the journey from the conception of and vision for a modern search-engine-based search environment to its technological realization.  |
D-Lib December 2000 Stuart L. Weibel & Traugott Koch |
The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative: Mission, Current Activities, and Future Directions The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) has led the development of structured metadata to support resource discovery...  |
D-Lib February 2000 Atkins, Lyons, Ratner, Risher, et al. |
Reference Linking with DOIs: A Case Study Digital Object Identifiers enable readers to find content on the Internet with a persistent and reliable identifier. Hyperlinking between article bibliographies and the cited articles is a natural application of DOIs.  |
D-Lib October 2005 Awre et al. |
The CREE Project: Investigating User Requirements for Searching within Institutional Environments While dedicated websites are still the predominant route for delivery of Internet-based search services, other Internet-based search tools should be explored for use within institutional environments  |
D-Lib Nov/Dec 2010 Massart et al. |
Taming the Metadata Beast: ILOX Information for Learning Object eXchange, is developed as part of the IMS Learning Object Discovery & Exchange specification specification that aims to facilitate the discovery and retrieval of learning objects stored across more than one collection.  |
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 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.  |
D-Lib April 2001 Xiaoming Liu |
Arc - An OAI Service Provider for Digital Library Federation The Open Archive Initiative (OAI) is one major effort to address technical interoperability among distributed archives. The objective of OAI is to develop a framework to facilitate the discovery of content in distributed archives...  |
D-Lib May 2002 Rachel Heery |
A Metadata Registry for the Semantic Web The declaration of schemas in metadata registries advance the Semantic Web by providing a common approach for the discovery, understanding, and exchange of semantics, which will enable a 'cooperative' Web where machines and humans can exchange electronic content that has clear-cut meaning...  |
D-Lib June 2003 |
In Brief ICON (Innovation Curriculum Online Network): The National Digital Library for Technology Literacy... G-Portal: A Digital Library Portal for Geospatial and Georeferenced Resources... Portal Building for State History... eERL (electronic Environmental Resources Library)... 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 December 2004 Herbert Van de Sompel et al. |
Resource Harvesting within the OAI-PMH Framework Recently, use cases have emerged that reveal a more liberal interpretation of what constitutes metadata in the OAI-PMH. The scope of descriptive metadata can be expanded to be more than just DC, MARC and similar bibliographic formats.  |
D-Lib February 2002 Dekkers & Weibel |
Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Progress Report and Workplan for 2002 The mission of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative is to make it easier to find resources using the Internet through metadata standards.  |
D-Lib March 2004 Lin Fang |
A Developing Search Service: Heterogeneous Resources Integration and Retrieval System This article describes two approaches for searching heterogeneous resources, which are explained as they are used in two corresponding existing systems--RIRS (Resource Integration Retrieval System) and HRUSP (Heterogeneous Resource Union Search Platform). On analyzing the existing systems, a possible framework--the MUSP (Multimetadata-Based Union Search Platform) is presented.  |
Information Today June 18, 2012 Christine Connors |
OpenMetadata.org Community Site Launched Though the site is still in its initial deployment, the goal is for it to become a go-to resource for discovery, access, and tools for using statistical metadata.  |
D-Lib January 2000 Adam Chandler, Dan Foley & Alaaeldin M. Hafez |
Mapping and Converting Essential Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) Metadata into MARC21 and Dublin Core  |
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.  |
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?  |