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D-Lib May 2004 Linda Hill |
Georeferencing in Digital Libraries What the digital library perspective toward georeferencing is and the application of georeferencing to all types of information and the integration of geospatial description, searching, and analysis into digital library practices.  |
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 May 2004 Greg Janee et al. |
Issues in Georeferenced Digital Libraries A presentation of seven issues that arise when creating a digital library of georeferenced resources.  |
D-Lib Nov/Dec 2011 Powell et al. |
A Semantic Registry for Digital Library Collections and Services This paper highlights some of the developments and challenges in developing registries. We then discuss how the Los Alamos National Laboratory's Research Library used current standards in an ad-hoc ontology to semantically describe services and collections.  |
D-Lib Sep/Oct 2012 Kalev H. Leetaru |
Fulltext Geocoding Versus Spatial Metadata for Large Text Archives: Towards a Geographically Enriched Wikipedia The rise of "born geographic" information and the increasing creation and mediation of information in a spatial context has given rise to a demand for extracting and indexing the spatial information in large textual archives.  |
D-Lib May 2004 Buckland & Lancaster |
Combining Place, Time, and Topic: The Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative The Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative's (ECAI) mission is to promote an international collaborative effort to transform humanities scholarship through use of the digital environment to share data and by placing greater emphasis on the notions of place and time.  |
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 May 2004 Michael F. Goodchild |
The Alexandria Digital Library Project: Review, Assessment, and Prospects Why the Alexandria Digital Library (ADL) was established, how it progressed, and how the vision of ADL continues to evolve.  |
D-Lib May 2004 |
Spatial Data Infrastructures and Digital Libraries: Paths to Convergence In a knowledge based economy, the effective use of geographic information (GI) is of critical importance (including a wide range of spatially referenced or referenceable resources).  |
D-Lib May/Jun 2014 Wickett et al. |
Representing Cultural Collections in Digital Aggregation and Exchange Environments In this article, we present specific roles that collections can play in digital aggregations, representational requirements that arise from those roles, and modeling strategies for meeting the requirements.  |
D-Lib Nov/Dec 2012 Fleet et al. |
Georeferencer: Crowdsourced Georeferencing for Map Library Collections The Georeferencer application is a collaborative online project allowing crowdsourced georeferencing of map images. It builds upon a number of related technologies that use existing zoomable images from library web servers.  |
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.  |
D-Lib February 2003 Terri Geitgey |
Flora and Fauna of the Great Lakes Region More than 110,000 records and 6,000 images populate the twelve collections composing the project. The collections are listed and briefly summarized.  |
D-Lib June 2001 Linda L. Hill |
A Content Standard for Computational Models There are no generally accepted procedures for describing computational models in ways that support cataloging, search, selection, and use. In this paper, we propose a content standard for describing computational models...  |
D-Lib Mar/Apr 2015 Justin B. Sorensen |
Reconstructing the Past Through Utah Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps: A Geospatial Approach to Library Resources This article describes the Digital Scholarship Lab's endeavor to convert these valuable resources into research driven geospatial datasets, providing a new format for how the library information is presented.  |
D-Lib May 2004 Gregory Crane |
Georeferencing in Historical Collections How different cultural documents--even when converted into a common language--describe space in very different ways.  |
D-Lib November 2000 Dale Flecker |
Harvard's Library Digital Initiative Building a First Generation Digital Library Infrastructure...  |
D-Lib Nov/Dec 2013 |
In Brief and In the News Connecting Presidential Collections... The African American Theater History Project at the University of Minnesota Libraries... CrossRef Members add over a quarter million CrossMark records...  |
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 June 2007 Yakel et al. |
Creating the Next Generation of Archival Finding Aids Despite the transition from paper to electronic form, online finding aids retain much of the look and functionality of their paper counterparts. New online collaborative technologies, such as filtering and recommender systems, allow for new methods of interacting with and experiencing primary sources.  |
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2011 Robert A. Schrier |
Digital Librarianship & Social Media: the Digital Library as Conversation Facilitator One of the ways digital librarians can cultivate a broader awareness of their collections is through social networking.  |
Information Today November 29, 2010 |
The Biodiversity Heritage Library Adds Records to WorldCat The Biodiversity Heritage Library is a consortium of major natural history museum libraries, botanical libraries, and research institutions organized to digitize, serve, and preserve the legacy literature of biodiversity.  |
D-Lib March 2006 Gregory Crane |
What Do You Do with a Million Books? The ability to extract from the stored record of humanity useful information in an actionable format for any given human being of any culture at any time and in any place will not emerge quickly, but the fundamental tools on which such a system would be built are moving forward.  |
D-Lib December 2005 Helen Durham |
DIALOG-PLUS: Digital Libraries in Support of Innovative Approaches to Learning and Teaching in Geography DIALOG-PLUS is an collaborative project to design, develop and deploy shared UK/US geography resources using innovative approaches to learning and teaching.  |
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2009 Gretchen Gueguen |
Joyner Library Digital Collections The Joyner Library Digital Collections home page maximizes browsing potential, offers selected featured items, a small subject cloud, and links to each collection, as well as provides a basic repository keyword search.  |
D-Lib Jan/Feb 2012 Mitchell & Suchy |
Developing Mobile Access to Digital Collections The latest challenge for libraries and museums is to adapt and grow our digital collections to meet the needs of an increasingly mobile user.  |
D-Lib June 2002 Thomas Moritz |
Building the Biodiversity Commons Provision of free, universal access to biodiversity information is a practical imperative for the international conservation community -- this goal should be accomplished by promotion of the Public Domain and by development of a sustainable Biodiversity Information Commons.  |
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.  |
Information Today July 7, 2003 |
News Digest West Adds ResultsPlus Smart Technology to Westlaw... GeoData.gov Provides Gateway to Geospatial Resources... National Constitution Center Open  |
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...  |