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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 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
Sep/Oct 2015
Parilla & Blase |
The Value of Flexibility on Long-term Value of Grant Funded Projects The Field Book Project is an initiative to increase accessibility to field book content that documents natural history. |
D-Lib
Mar/Apr 2011
Dulock & Long |
The Conference on World Affairs Archive Online: Digitization and Metadata for a Digital Audio Pilot In 2009 the University of Colorado Archives, together with other units of the CU Libraries and the offices of the Conference on World Affairs, began a project to digitize a substantial collection of audio recordings from the Conference. |
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 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/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
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. |
Information Today
September 2000 |
OCLC Introduces WebExpress, CORC Service OCLC has announced both the release of WebExpress, a gateway to local and remote Z39.50 information resources, and the debut of its Cooperative Online Resource Catalog |
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
May/Jun 2015
Markus Michael Geipel |
Statistical Translation of Hierarchical Classifications from Dewey Decimal Classification to the Regensburger Verbundklassifikation This paper presents a novel approach for statistical translation of hierarchical classification systems. The translation is optimized for application in search and retrieval scenarios. |
D-Lib
Mar/Apr 2015
Moulaison et al. |
OpenDOAR Repositories and Metadata Practices In spring 2014, authors from the University of Missouri conducted a nation-wide survey on metadata practices among United States-based OpenDOAR repositories |
D-Lib
April 2002
Marilyn McClelland |
Challenges for Service Providers When Importing Metadata in Digital Libraries Our experiences identify questions regarding intellectual property rights for metadata, protocols for enriched metadata, and tips for designing metadata services... |
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
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
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
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. |
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
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
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? |
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
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
May/Jun 2008 |
In Brief Winners of The EMC Heritage Trust Project Grants Announced... VIF Project Completes Framework for Identification of Versions in Digital Repositories... NISO Forum Sparked Debate on Discovery Tools... etc. |
D-Lib
June 2002 |
Clips and Pointers The Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting: Protocol Version 2.0... Digital Imagery for Works of Art Final Report... Preservation Metadata and the OAIS Information Model: A Metadata Framework to Support the Preservation of Digital Objects... etc. |
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
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
February 2005
Hughes & Kamat |
A Metadata Search Engine for Digital Language Archives Describes the design and implementation of a full-featured metadata search engine within the Open Language Archives Community (OLAC), a consortium of linguistic data archives. |
D-Lib
June 2001 |
Clips and Pointers Communications of the ACM Special Section on Designing and Delivering Network-Based Information Systems in Digital Libraries... Collection Development in the Internet Age... Managing Web Resources for Persistent Access... etc. |
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
October 2009
Papadakis et al. |
Subject-based Information Retrieval within Digital Libraries Employing LCSHs The goal of this article is to semantically exploit the explicit and implicit relations between Library of Congress Subject Headings in order to provide more effective subject-based, information retrieval within digital libraries. |
D-Lib
March 2005
Theo van Veen |
Renewing the Information Infrastructure of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek The Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB) is engaged in a major renewal of its information infrastructure. |
D-Lib
January 2001
Carl Lagoze |
Keeping Dublin Core Simple Cross-Domain Discovery or Resource Description? |
D-Lib
February 2001 |
In Brief Leading Edge Metadata Workshop In Melbourne... Towards a Digital Preservation Coalition in the UK... New Listserv for the Distributed National Electronic Resource... An International Training Programme: STIMULATE... The 21st-Century Librarian Award... etc. |
D-Lib
June 2002
Paul Shabajee |
Primary Multimedia Objects and 'Educational Metadata' A fundamental dilemma for developers of multimedia archives. |
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. |
ONLINE
March 2001
David Stern |
The OpenURL Possibilities Automating Enhanced Discovery and Delivery... |
D-Lib
January 2006
Linden & Green |
Don't Leave the Data in the Dark: Issues in Digitizing Print Statistical Publications Statistical digitization projects must make investments in adequate metadata and object-oriented design at the point of digitization - otherwise, the data are in danger of losing their context |
D-Lib
September 2006
Goldsmith & Knudson |
Repository Librarian and the Next Crusade: The Search for a Common Standard for Digital Repository Metadata While metadata standards abound, and acceptance and use of these standards is equally widespread, agreement on a common standard is much harder to find. |
Information Today
May 30, 2013 |
OCLC Working With Libraries to Test Record Management Functionality OCLC is working with 13 libraries on three continents to beta test OCLC WorldShare Metadata Record Manager, which offers new record management functionality to enhance a library's ability to catalog its collections. |
D-Lib
December 2004
David Green |
How Fares the Wired Museum? Report on the 32nd Annual Conference of the Museum Computer Network which has been a leading agent in museums' use of computers from improving operational efficiency to animating collections and connecting them to a wider world. |
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
December 2001
Christophe Blanchi |
Distributed Interoperable Metadata Registry Interoperability between digital libraries depends on effective sharing of metadata. Successful sharing of metadata requires common standards for metadata exchange... |
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
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
January 2000
Gail M. Hodge |
Best Practices for Digital Archiving: An Information Life Cycle Approach Digital information is fragile in ways that differ from traditional technologies, such as paper or microfilm. It is more easily corrupted or altered without recognition... |
D-Lib
August 2005
Stuart L. Weibel |
Border Crossings: Reflections on a Decade of Metadata Consensus Building A personal reflection on some of the achievements and lessons of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative management team. |
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. |
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
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 2000
Atkins, Lyons, Ratner, Risher, et al. |
Reference Linking with DOIs: A Case Study Digital Object Identifiers enable readers to find content on the Internet with a persistent and reliable identifier. Hyperlinking between article bibliographies and the cited articles is a natural application of DOIs. |
