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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 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 Sep/Oct 2011 Oehrli et al. |
MapRank: Geographical Search for Cartographic Materials in Libraries A web-based geographical search system (geosearch), which analyzes the geographical coordinates of MARC21 field 034, has been developed for the Swiss research portal for maps.  |
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 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 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 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 February 2007 Karen Markey |
The Online Library Catalog: Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained? The time is right to rethink library cataloging and online catalogs. Reading and synthesizing Marcum, Calhoun, Bates, Mann, Hildreth, Borgman, Anderson, etc., should be mandatory for everyone who cares about the future of the online library catalog.  |
D-Lib May 2004 Beaman, et al. |
Determining Space from Place for Natural History Collections: In a Distributed Digital Library Environment Geospatial referencing is one of the new technologies that promises to unlock the biological and geographical knowledge contained in the world's natural history collections.  |
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 November 2000 Dale Flecker |
Harvard's Library Digital Initiative Building a First Generation Digital Library Infrastructure...  |
D-Lib May 2004 Jeanette Zerneke |
D-Lib Featured Collection May 2004: ECAI Iraq Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (ECAI) constructed a website to bring together the available digital cultural heritage resources on Iraq, that covers a 10,000-year period of history, and includes profiles of 70 major historic sites and 50 empires and eras.  |
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 September 2002 |
In Brief EU(DELOS)-NSF Working Group on Digital Archiving and Preservation... Update on the JISC X4L Programme... MedHist: A Subject Gateway for the History of Medicine... TREC Genomics Pre-Track Workshop Report... etc.  |
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/Jun 2010 Xihui Zhen |
Overview of Digital Library Development in China The greatest challenges for Chinese national digital library projects are digital resource construction and a design of services provision.  |
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 Jul/Aug 2000 |
In Brief Digital Libraries as a field has experienced rapid growth in recent years, and the ACM Digital Libraries conference is one of the premiere forums where research and implementation communities converge to confer on common and emerging trends in platform development, design and evaluation, content digitization, storage, and retrieval.  |
Searcher June 2002 Irene E. McDermott |
Where was I? Maps on the Web There is a tremendous amount of spatial data on the World Wide Web: multitudes of maps; armfuls of atlases; cartloads of cartography. Enough to keep a map nerd like myself clicking and dreaming for years. Maps on the Web are designed for many uses, and many of them are free...  |
Information Today April 26, 2012 |
Millions of Harvard Library Catalog Records Publicly Available The Harvard Library announced it would make more than 12 million catalog records from Harvard's 73 libraries publicly available.  |
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...  |
Searcher April 2002 Marylaine Block |
Mapping the Information Landscape Why is it worth identifying our mental maps and thinking about them? To remind ourselves when we get bogged down in a question, that we can reorient ourselves to a different map and a different strategy for finding answers...  |
D-Lib March 2002 |
In Brief New Protocols for Gazetteer and Thesaurus Services... Research and Development in Advanced Network Technology... LinkOut - Explore beyond PubMed and Entrez... Launch of OAIster Project... etc.  |
D-Lib February 2005 |
The eXtensible Past: The Relevance of the XML Data Format for Access to Historical Datasets and a Strategy for Digital Preservation Reports on investigations carried out by the Netherlands Historical Data Archive into the relevance of the XML data format and the "Open Archives" paradigm on the long-term preservation and dissemination of historical datasets.  |
D-Lib March 2006 Stuart L. Weibel |
Web Wise 2006 Inspiring Discovery - Unlocking Collections: Conference Report Web Wise conference summation: The Keynotes... Panel on Copyright and Intellectual Property... News You May Not be Able to Use... Automation... etc.  |
D-Lib November 2000 Lynne Brindley |
Taking the British Library Forward in the Twenty-first Century It is at this very time of success that the British Library needs to turn to, and accelerate its engagement with, the critical and transformational issues associated with the digital world and the new demands being made by our wide range of users and stakeholders...  |
Search Engine Watch February 1, 2006 Chris Sherman |
Searching for a Sense of Place Whether you're looking for the London in England, Texas or on the atoll of Kiritimati, one of these online gazetteers can help you locate just the geographic details you need.  |
D-Lib Jan/Feb 2011 Waaijers & van der Graaf |
Quality of Research Data, an Operational Approach This article reports on a study, commissioned by SURFfoundation, investigating the operational aspects of the concept of quality for the various phases in the life cycle of research data: production, management, and use/re-use.  |