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D-Lib
November 2005
Kastens et al. |
Questions & Challenges Arising in Building the Collection of a Digital Library for Education Tentative answers to some of the major questions and challenges that DLESE has faced while building the digital collections as well as issues that the group is still tackling.   |
D-Lib
May 2006
Arko et al. |
Using Annotations to Add Value to a Digital Library for Education Although the value of annotations in digital libraries has long been recognized from a theoretical perspective, annotations are just beginning to demonstrate their practical value to real-world users. In this article, we describe a fully implemented annotation system within the Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE). |
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
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
December 2008
Rich Gazan |
Social Annotations in Digital Library Collections In order to incorporate Web 2.0 functionality effectively, digital libraries must fundamentally recast users not just as content consumers, but as content creators. |
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
November 2002
Budhu & Coleman |
The Design and Evaluation of Interactivities in a Digital Library |
D-Lib
January 2006
Kastens & Holzman |
The Digital Library for Earth System Education Provides Individualized Reports for Teachers on the Effectiveness of Educational Resources in Their Own Classrooms The Instructors' Individualized Reports from DLESE's Community Review System are leveraging the digital character of the library to generate insights for instructors about the nature and quality of the interaction between resources in the library and students. |
D-Lib
June 2002
Paul Shabajee |
Primary Multimedia Objects and 'Educational Metadata' A fundamental dilemma for developers of multimedia archives. |
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
Jul/Aug 2012
Ron Daniel, Jr. |
Domain-Independent Mining of Abstracts Using Indicator Phrases Abstracts contain a variety of domain-independent indicator phrases such as "These results suggest X" and "X remains unknown". Indicator phrases locate domain-specific key phrases and categorize them into potentially useful types. |
D-Lib
December 2006
Manduca et al. |
Digital Library as Network and Community Center: A Successful Model for Contribution and Use Some key approaches that have been successful for the Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College (SERC) in engaging geoscience educators, both as contributors and users in the Teach the Earth library. |
D-Lib
February 2008
Ian G. Anderson |
Necessary but Not Sufficient: Modelling Online Archive Development in the UK The process of archive development is hampered by the lack of a template for identifying and evaluating online archive information and services or a model for understanding their 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
Jul/Aug 2014
DeRidder & Matheny |
What Do Researchers Need? Feedback On Use of Online Primary Source Materials A qualitative study of 11 humanities faculty researchers at the University of Alabama, describes and rates the importance of various issues encountered when using 29 participant-selected online databases. |
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
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 2014
Latif et al. |
Exposing Data From an Open Access Repository for Economics As Linked Data This article describes an approach to publishing metadata on the Semantic Web from an Open Access repository to foster interoperability with distributed data. |
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
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
Jul/Aug 2009
Khoo, Buchanan & Cunningham |
JCDL 2009 Workshop Report Lightweight user-friendly evaluation knowledge for digital librarians. |
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
January 2002
William Y. Arms |
A Spectrum of Interoperability The Site for Science Prototype for the NSDL... |
D-Lib
Mar/Apr 2012
Jinfang Niu |
An Overview of Web Archiving This overview is a study of the methods used at a variety of universities, and international government libraries and archives, to select, acquire, describe and access web resources for their archives. |
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 2003
Abby A. Goodrum |
Visual Resource Reference: Collaboration Between Digital Museums and Digital Libraries The question faced by libraries, museums, and other cultural heritage institutions in this world of visual information is how to respond to a growing public demand for 'round-the-clock' networked accessibility to multimedia, images and image collections. |
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
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
March 2001 |
In Brief Award to Penn State University Libraries to support an extensive study of digital image delivery... Digitization of Printed Material: The METAe Project... The Special Collections Virtual Reading Room... etc. |
D-Lib
September 2004
Roxanne Missingham |
Reengineering a National Resource Discovery Service: MODS Down Under The reengineering of Kinetica is critical in supporting the Library's strategic goal of breaking down barriers to access to library collections and online resources. |
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
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
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
September 2006
Mimi Recker |
Perspectives on Teachers as Digital Library Users: Consumers, Contributors, and Designers A review of a five-year program aimed at increasing teachers' capacity for designing instructional activities using digital library learning resources. |
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
March 2005
Lee L. Zia |
The NSF National Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education Digital Library (NSDL) Program: New Projects from Fiscal Year 2004 New grants in pathways, services, and targeted research will help continue the development of a national digital library of high-quality educational resources to support learning at all levels in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. |
D-Lib
May 2002
Michael Wright |
Meta-Design of a Community Digital Library This article presents how the geoscience community has worked to develop The Digital Library for Earth System Education in the light of recent work in the area of meta-design, the design of the design process... |
D-Lib
October 2004
Naomi Dushay |
Visualizing Bibliographic Metadata - A Virtual (Book) Spine Viewer The pairing of information visualization techniques with bibliographic metadata will yield great benefits for information discovery. |
D-Lib
August 2009
Tanner et al. |
Measuring Mass Text Digitization Quality and Usefulness Lessons Learned from Assessing the OCR Accuracy of the British Library's 19th Century Online Newspaper Archive |
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
December 2004
Jia Liu |
Metadata Development in China: Research and Practice Chinese researchers and practitioners have now reached the point where metadata development and use have matured and become stable throughout the country's institutions. |
D-Lib
April 2007 |
Setting the Foundations of Digital Libraries: The DELOS Manifesto The DELOS Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries now envisions a Digital Library as a tool at the center of intellectual activity having no logical, conceptual, physical, temporal, or personal borders or barriers to information. |
D-Lib
Jul/Aug 2012
Bertin & Atanassova |
Semantic Enrichment of Scientific Publications and Metadata Our aim is to bring new value to scientific publications by automatic extraction and semantic analysis. |
D-Lib
August 2009
Lourdi et al. |
Semantic Integration of Collection Description: Combining CIDOC/CRM and Dublin Core Collections Application Profile The research reveals the complexity of mapping metadata schemas to ontologies and resolves particular difficulties by presenting the crosswalk between Dublin Core Collections Application Profile and CIDOC/CRM. |
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
April 2003
O'Neill et al. |
Trends in the Evolution of the Public Web: 1998-2002 The swiftness of the World Wide Web's ascension from obscure experiment to cultural icon has been truly remarkable. |
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
Mar/Apr 2009 |
In Brief Reflective learning for the net generation... The SKUA project: prototyping a distributed network of semantically aware shared annotation services... The Erewhon project: more comprehensive location-based services... etc. |
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
September 2006
Choi & Rasmussen |
What Is Needed to Educate Future Digital Librarians: A Study of Current Practice and Staffing Patterns in Academic and Research Libraries Digital libraries are the future of academic and research institutions, and digital professionals will be required to have more breadth and depth of knowledge and skills across the dimensions of traditional library knowledge, technology, and human relations. |
