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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 Jul/Aug 2000 Gregory Crane |
Designing Documents to Enhance the Performance of Digital Libraries: Time, Space, People and a Digital Library on London In a mature digital library (DL), documents should coexist with a Geographic Information System (GIS).  |
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 Nov/Dec 2014 Volske et al. |
A Keyquery-Based Classification System for CORE We apply keyquery-based taxonomy composition to compute a classification system for the CORE dataset, a shared crawl of about 850,000 scientific papers  |
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 March 2006 Schibel & Rydberg-Cox |
Early Modern Culture in a Comprehensive Digital Library Digital libraries have the potential to transform fields such as early modern studies, where problems of physical access to sources and intellectual access to their contents have hampered our ability to contemplate major topics.  |
D-Lib Mar/Apr 2014 George V. Landon |
Report on the 2nd International Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing (HIP'13) Technical areas covered in the workshop included information extraction and retrieval; reconstruction and degradation; text and image recognition and segmentation; and layout analysis and databases.  |
D-Lib Sep/Oct 2013 Erbs et al. |
Bringing Order to Digital Libraries: From Keyphrase Extraction to Index Term Assignment Collections of topically related documents held by digital libraries are valuable resources for users; however, as collections grow, it becomes more difficult to search them for specific information. Structure needs to be introduced to facilitate searching.  |
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 Sep/Oct 2011 Gauthereau-Bryson et al. |
Digitization Practices for Translations: Lessons Learned from the Our Americas Archive Partnership Project This paper discusses the complexities involved in digitizing multilingual historical documents, including practices for creating "born-digital" translations and unique metadata to best describe these rare, primary documents.  |
D-Lib February 2006 |
A Research Library Based on the Historical Collections of the Internet Archive As digital libraries expand, we can look forward to a day when humanities and social science scholars replace much of the tedious manual effort with computer programs. Here is a description of a library that is being built for such research.  |
ONLINE March 2001 Katherine C. Adams |
The Web as Database New Extraction Technologies and Content Management...  |
Searcher December 2000 |
The Future of the Past: History Sources on the Internet Historians and historical-fiction writers bring history to life through the skillful selection of details from daily life. For researchers of history, the number of Internet resources is increasing rapidly...  |
D-Lib Nov/Dec 2015 Francopoulo et al. |
NLP4NLP: The Cobbler's Children Won't Go Unshod Understanding current trends is a challenging and attractive text mining task, especially when suitable tools are recursively applied to publications from the very domain they come from.  |
Searcher March 2003 Stephen E. Arnold |
In Search of the Good Search: The Invisible Elephant Search remains a challenging human-computer issue.  |
D-Lib March 2006 Choudhury et al. |
Document Recognition for a Million Books Transcription represents only one component of document recognition. The presence of a large-scale book image corpus significantly raises the possibilities for document recognition capabilities, especially given the potential for statistical inferences or analyses.  |
D-Lib Mar/Apr 2009 George V. Landon |
Toward Digitizing All Forms of Documentation Techniques to digitize numerous forms of documentation, including deteriorated manuscripts and photography.  |
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 Jul/Aug 2000 William Y. Arms |
Automated Digital Libraries: How Effectively Can Computers Be Used for the Skilled Tasks of Professional Librarianship? Must access to scientific and professional information always be expensive, or is it possible that digital libraries might change this sad situation?  |
D-Lib June 2004 Norbert Lossau |
Search Engine Technology and Digital Libraries: Libraries Need to Discover the Academic Internet If libraries do not want to become marginalized in a key area of their traditional services, they need to acknowledge the challenges that come with the globalization of scholarly information, the existence and further growth of the academic internet .  |
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 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 March 2002 |
Clips and Pointers Executive Summary of the DigiCULT Study Technological Landscapes for Tomorrow's Cultural Economy... Conclusions from the Text-e Virtual Symposium... Point to Point... Calls for Participation... etc.  |
D-Lib December 2001 |
Clips & Pointers The Evidence in Hand: Report of the Task Force on the Artifact in Library Collections... Broadband: Bringing Home the Bits... Hybrid Electronic Access and Delivery in the Library Networked Environment... Resources for Professional Education & Grant Writing... etc.  |
D-Lib March 2003 |
Clips and Pointers Preserving Our Digital Heritage: Plan for the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program... Report Examines Copyright Issues in Digital Archiving, Council on Library and Information Resources... Surveying the Digital Future: Year Three... etc.  |
D-Lib May 2002 |
Clips and Pointers Building a National Strategy for Preservation: Issues in Digital Media Archiving... The Resource Discovery Network: evaluation report... Trusted Digital Repositories: Attributes and Responsibilities, an RLG-OCLC Report... "No Going Back?" The final report of the Effective Records Management Project... etc.  |
D-Lib Nov/Dec 2009 Cassella & Calvi |
ECDL 2009 Enhancing digital libraries users' experience.  |
D-Lib Nov/Dec 2015 Tkaczyk et al. |
Structured Affiliations Extraction from Scientific Literature CERMINE is a comprehensive open source system for extracting structured metadata from scientific articles in a born-digital form.  |
Salon.com June 21, 2001 Katharine Mieszkowski |
Google a go-go While other search engines sputter and fail, Monika Henzinger, Google's director of research, has an answer to every query...  |
ONLINE Sep/Oct 2008 Pressley & McCallum |
Putting the Library in Wikipedia Few online resources provoke as much controversy in the library community as Wikipedia.  |
D-Lib May/Jun 2011 |
In Brief and In the News A new step toward digital library foundations... Scholarly reading and the value of library resources... Reposit: positing a new kind of repository deposit...  |
D-Lib March 2003 Ian H. Witten |
Examples of Practical Digital Libraries: Collections Built Internationally Using Greenstone The Greenstone Digital Library Software provides a way of building and distributing digital library collections, opening up new possibilities for organizing information and making it available over the Internet or on CD-ROM.  |
D-Lib June 2002 Johan Bollen |
Evaluation of Digital Library Impact and User Communities by Analysis of Usage Patterns A system to automatically generate extensive journal and document networks from an efficient and simple analysis of user retrieval sequences registered in a particular digital library's server logs.  |
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 Nov/Dec 2009 Cristina & Daniel Tofan |
A Low Cost, Low Memory Footprint, SQL and Servlet-based Solution for Searching Archived Images and Documents in Digital Collections A simple, elegant solution to digitizing special collections documents to meet the needs of the institution without additional monetary commitments.  |
D-Lib January 2002 Suzana Sukovic |
Beyond the scriptorium: The Role of the Library in Text Encoding Development of electronic textual resources means dealing with documents in new ways and on different levels, often involving work on a document's content through text encoding. This development challenges the library's assumed position in the research process...  |
D-Lib December 2007 Kaufman & Ubois |
Good Terms - Improving Commercial-Noncommercial Partnerships for Mass Digitization OCLC Programs and Research engaged Intelligent Television to study the partnership agreements between cultural institutions and for-profit companies for the mass digitization of books and other media. This report presents the findings of that study.  |
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2012 Herrmannova & Knoth |
Visual Search for Supporting Content Exploration in Large Document Collections Users now demand better support for exploring document collections to discover connections, compare and contrast information.  |
Searcher April 2007 Grogg & Ashmore |
Google Book Search Libraries and Their Digital Copies Few things in the past decade have brought libraries and subsequent controversy into the mainstream media as much as the google book search library project.  |
D-Lib January 2005 |
In Brief The Gamera Software Development Kit for Document Image Analysis... XML Techniques for the Representation and Interchange of Thesaurus Data... The UTOPIA Project... In the News... etc.  |
Information Today August 14, 2006 Barbara Quint |
Google Book Search Adds Big, Brave Partner: The University of California The 100 libraries on the 10 campuses of the University of California - the largest research and academic library in the world - opened a composite 34 million book collection to Google.  |
CIO June 15, 2005 John Edwards |
Seek And Ye Shall (Hopefully) Find Are your employees and customers looking for answers? Enterprise search vendors promise to help you help them.  |
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 2008 Datema et al. |
In Brief Getting the most out of your institutional repository... Science assets of the digital age at risk... Linus Pauling and the International Peace Movement: a documentary history... etc.  |
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2000 Thomas A. Phelps & Robert Wilensky |
Robust Hyperlinks and Locations We suggest that building "permissive, but robust" digital library systems and services is an attractive alternative to the library and computer science tradition of building "strict, but fragile" systems.  |
Information Today October 16, 2006 |
Weekly News Digest University of Wisconsin-Madison Joins Google Books Library Project... Really Strategies Debuts RSuite CMS... Centric InSight 6.0 Introduces Enhanced Document Content Discovery and Results Management...  |
D-Lib July 2001 |
In Brief Visual Interfaces to Digital Libraries... Project ANGEL: Guidance and Guardianship for Networked UK Learners... The City of Los Angeles Spatial Index is Now Available on the Internet... Caltech Registers Two Repositories with the Open Archives Initiative... etc.  |
Information Today June 2003 Donald T. Hawkins |
The Eighth Search Engine Meeting After last year's detour to San Francisco, the Search Engine Meeting returned to Boston April 7-8 for its eighth annual gathering. The Search Engine meetings annually show that searching is by no means a fully developed technology.  |
ONLINE Jul/Aug 2004 Lam & Friesen |
A Web-Based Database of CIA Declassified Documents on the Vietnam War During the Vietnam War years, the U.S. government generated a large volume of classified documents. The Declassified CIA Documents on the Vietnam War database is the result of a sabbatical leave research project approved and supported by the University of Saskatchewan, Canada.  |
D-Lib May/Jun 2007 Lally & Dunford |
Using Wikipedia to Extend Digital Collections Web 2.0 technologies offer librarians a great opportunity to enhance the authority of resources that students use on a daily basis, and to push their knowledge and expertise beyond the traditional boundaries of the library.  |