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Information Today March 5, 2012 Victoria McCargar |
Viewshare: Up Close and Personal With Your Digital Treasures Back in November 2011, the Library of Congress blogged about a new online service called Viewshare, a web domain where cultural heritage institutions can show off their digital treasures free of charge.  |
D-Lib Nov/Dec 2012 Algee et al. |
Viewshare and the Kress Collection: Creating, Sharing, and Rapidly Prototyping Visual Interfaces to Cultural Heritage Collection Data Viewshare is a free, open-source visualization platform developed by the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program at the Library of Congress and its partners.  |
D-Lib Nov/Dec 2012 Joan E. Beaudoin |
Context and Its Role in the Digital Preservation of Cultural Objects In discussions surrounding digital preservation, context -- those properties of an object related to its creation and preservation that make the object's origins, composition, and purpose clear -- has been identified as a critical aspect of preservation metadata.  |
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 April 2004 Nancy Allen |
Collaborative Digitization Program (CDP) The Colorado Digitization Project has broadened its scope, and serves a number of roles as a collaborative organization supporting digitization infrastructure for cultural heritage organizations of all kinds.  |
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.  |
Information Today July 27, 2009 |
New OCLC Gateway Service Increases Web Visibility of Digital Collections The WorldCat Digital Collection Gateway offers libraries a self-service tool to easily upload metadata from their unique digital content to WorldCat, the world's largest online resource for finding items held in libraries.  |
D-Lib November 2000 Dale Flecker |
Harvard's Library Digital Initiative Building a First Generation Digital Library Infrastructure...  |
D-Lib May/Jun 2013 Laurence Lannom |
Acquisition, Access, and Preservation You will find an emphasis on preservation, but taken as a whole, the issue covers the waterfront of digital library topics, i.e., acquiring information, making it accessible, and preserving it.  |
Information Today May 14, 2012 |
Ex Libris Announces the Launch of Rosetta 3.0 Rosetta is a digital preservation system, which provides a new user interface, advanced search options, a collection management module, and other management and preservation features.  |
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 Jan/Feb 2012 Laurence Lannom |
Continuing Change Most early digital library projects focused on digitizing existing printed material and making it available over the Internet, generally on a collection by collection basis from servers run by the institutions that originally held the physical documents.  |
Information Today February 9, 2009 |
New Report From DLF Evaluates Metadata Tools "Future Directions in Metadata Remediation for Metadata Aggregators," is a report that identifies and evaluates tools that can be used to normalize and enhance metadata.  |
D-Lib November 2002 Jinfang Niu |
A Metadata Framework Developed at the Tsinghua University Library to Aid in the Preservation of Digital Resources  |
D-Lib May/Jun 2013 Jett et al. |
A Model for Providing Web 2.0 Services to Cultural Heritage Institutions: The IMLS DCC Flickr Feasibility Study The Flickr Feasibility Study was launched in 2009 to determine how aggregators might provide intermediary services for cultural heritage institutions wishing to engage in Web 2.0 initiatives, shed light on both needs and models for aggregation services.  |
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.  |
Information Today July 1, 2002 Richard W. Wiggins |
OCLC Extends Digital Library Offerings OCLC continues its push into the digital library software and services market with two recent announcements.  |
Information Today August 16, 2010 |
OCLC Announced Enhanced WorldCat Digital Collection Gateway Repository managers from libraries, museums, archives and other research institutions can now contribute metadata records for digital materials to WorldCat.  |
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 September 2000 Paul Miller |
Collected Wisdom: Some Cross-domain Issues of Collection Level Description The desire to describe collections of material is evident across all our memory institutions: libraries, museums, archives, and beyond. The importance of "the collection", however, and the manner by which it is most often described, differs.  |
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 Mar/Apr 2015 Laurence Lannom |
The Practice of Digital Libraries The practice of digital libraries continues to evolve and the range of that practice is well represented in our current issue of nine full articles.  |
D-Lib April 2006 Lorcan Dempsey |
Libraries and the Long Tail: Some Thoughts about Libraries in a Network Age Libraries collectively manage a long tail of research, learning and cultural materials. However, we need to do more work to make sure that this long tail is directly available to improve the work and lives of our users.  |
D-Lib May/Jun 2014 Laurence Lannom |
Editorial The Odysci Academic Search System... Cultural heritage data in digital library systems... The use of Raspberry PIs in libraries...  |
D-Lib April 2003 Searle & Thompson |
Preservation Metadata Pragmatic first steps at the National Library of New Zealand  |
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 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 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 May/Jun 2015 Laurence Lannom |
Olio This issue has a set of seven articles, each highly relevant to the digital library field, each in its own way.  |
D-Lib Sep/Oct 2015 Casad et al. |
Enduring Access to Rich Media Content: Understanding Use and Usability Requirements Through an NEH-funded initiative, Cornell University Library is creating a technical, curatorial, and managerial framework for preserving access to complex born-digital new media objects.  |
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 Nov/Dec 2015 Laurence Lannom |
Editorial The work of the Digital Library Federation's Assessment Interest Group... Fifteen years of interoperability efforts... Scenario-based learning in training library staff...  |
D-Lib April 2007 Melissa McLimans |
D-Lib Featured Collection March 2007: University of Wisconsin Digital Collections The University of Wisconsin Digital Collections Center has added over a thousand audio files, nearly a thousand books, and dozens of videos over the past year, totaling over 320,000 new digital objects.  |
Information Today June 28, 2012 Katherine Allen |
New European Library Portal Launched The European Library is a new discovery service that provides access to the collections of the national libraries of 46 European countries, plus a growing number of research libraries.  |
D-Lib June 2009 Evens & Hauttekeete |
Unlocking Audio: Towards an Online Repository of Spoken Word Collections in Flanders Currently, Flanders lags behind other European regions when it comes to using innovative tools to facilitate access to its oral history collections.  |
D-Lib April 2004 Brian F. Lavoie |
Implementing Metadata in Digital Preservation Systems: The PREMIS Activity This article discusses the objectives, current status, and future activities of PREMIS, an expert working group focused on the topic of implementing preservation metadata within digital archiving systems.  |
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 Nov/Dec 2013 Laurence Lannom |
Editorial The editor describes articles on identifying personalized representation of online content in web archives, descriptive metadata for field books, and a census of open access repositories in Germany, among others.  |
D-Lib Nov/Dec 2012 Joan Beaudoin |
A Framework for Contextual Metadata Used in the Digital Preservation of Cultural Objects Contextual information is fundamental to understanding many aspects about digital content. The framework presented here was developed to accommodate recording this critical information.  |
D-Lib May 2005 Seales & Landon |
The Museum and the Media Divide: Building and Using Digital Collections at the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriquena A look at the challenges involved in acquiring, organizing and accessing museum collections to make them meaningfully available within typical budgetary and technical constraints.  |
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 Nov/Dec 2012 Poole et al. |
CurateGear: Enabling the Curation of Digital Collections CurateGear: Enabling the Curation of Digital Collections took place on January 6, 2012, in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. It was a highly interactive, day-long event focusing on digital curation tools and methods, involving presentations and demonstrations by a variety of experts.  |
Information Today October 6, 2011 |
OCLC Report Examines Use of Social Metadata at Libraries, Archives, and Museums The report seeks to provide an overview of social metadata to enable cultural heritage institutions to better use their users' expertise and enrich their descriptive metadata to improve their users' experiences.  |
D-Lib September 2000 Andy Powell, Michael Heaney & Lorcan Dempsey |
RSLP Collection Description A description of an effort to develop a way to describe collections in a consistent and machine readable way that is applicable to physical and digital collections of all kinds, including library, art and museum materials.  |
D-Lib October 2006 Artacho & Duval |
Report on the Workshop of Learning Object Repositories as Digital Libraries: September 22, 2006, Alicante, Spain The Learning Object Repositories workshop addressed the increasing importance of the digital library paradigm as a reference framework for building learning object repositories.  |
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 Jul/Aug 2013 Laurence Lannom |
Editorial Our first three articles are all about maturation in library services, including institutional repositories, data curation, and MOOCs.  |
D-Lib May/Jun 2007 Peter Kosewski |
Digital Technology Opens Harvard's Library Collections to the World Visitors to the Harvard Libraries web site can find and use thousands of individual digital materials from the Harvard collections.  |
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.  |