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DSpace: Durable Digital Depository - http://www.dspace.org/
A joint project between MIT Libraries and Hewlett-Packard to provide stable long-term storage for the intellectual output of MIT faculty and researchers using open-source software. Mission, policy, technology description and download, implementations, news and staff information. |
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Digital collections and programs: Library functions - http://www.loc.gov/library/libarch-digital.html
Building digital collections at the Library of Congress. |
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Preserving Access to Digital Information (PADI) - http://www.nla.gov.au/padi/
Hosted by the National Library of Australia and directed by an international advisory group, PADI provides access to a wide range of digital preservation resources. |
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DELOS Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries (FP6) - http://www.delos.info/
An initiative funded by the European Union's Information Society Technologies 6th Framework Programme to integrate and coordinate ongoing research activities within Europe and disseminate knowledge. |
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DLib Forum and DLib Magazine - http://www.dlib.org/
The forum hosts a working group on metrics, a test suite for online research and list of further references. The web magazine is published monthly and covers news, innovation and research. |
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Digital Library Federation - http://www.diglib.org/
Developing the means of creating, maintaining, expanding, and preserving a distributed collection of digital materials. |
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DPE: Digital Preservation Europe - http://www.digitalpreservationeurope.eu/
Addresses the need to improve coordination, cooperation and consistency in current activities to secure effective preservation of digital materials. |
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Digilib 2003 - http://www.lib.helsinki.fi/finelib/digilib/
Toward a User-Centered Approach to Digital Libraries, the Conference on Users in the Electronic Information Environments is held in Espoo, Finland. |
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Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE) - http://base.ub.uni-bielefeld.de
BASE provides integrated access to distributed collections of various type and format (digitised collections, institutional repositories, pre-print-servers, electronic journals etc.) by applying search engine technology in the context of scholarly search- and retrieval services. |
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Digital Curation Centre (DDC) - http://www.dcc.ac.uk/
A UK-based centre to support expertise and practice in data curation and digital preservation across communities of practice. |
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Desire Project - http://www.desire.org/
Development of a European Service for Information on Research and Education. This project ran from July 1998 until June 2000 and was a collaboration between partners at ten institutions from four European countries. Publications, handbook and development toolkit. |
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DigiCULT Forum - http://www.digicult.info
Digital Culture (DigiCULT) is a 30-month European funded project to monitor and assess existing and emerging technologies to benefit the cultural heritage sector between March 2002 and August 2004. Includes reports, current awareness, events and links to further resources. |
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Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography (SEPB) - http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepb.html
Section 6.2 of the list of references by Charles W. Bailey, Jr. based at the University of Houston Libraries. |
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University of Michigan Digital Library Project - http://www.si.umich.edu/UMDL/
A NSF/ARPA/NASA-sponsored project incorporating basic research, system building, deployment, and evaluation of a usable digital library. The UMDL provides access to significant public domain collections of scientific data and information. |
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Palo Alto Research Centre (PARC) - http://www.parc.com/
Information Sciences and Technologies Laboratory. Project areas include Human-Document Interaction (HDI), Natural Language Theory and Technology (NLTT), Quantitative Content Analysis, Sparrow Web, Statistical Pattern and Image Analysis, and User Interface Research. Includes internship and employment information as well as full project information and activities. |
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Digital Preservation Coalition - http://www.dpconline.org/
Aims to secure the preservation of digital resources in the UK. Includes background information on the coalition, their program of work, details of their administration, how interested parties can participate, and the full-text of the Preservation of Digital Materials handbook. |
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Technical Advisory Service for Images (TASI) - http://www.tasi.ac.uk/
Supports the academic community on the creation, storage and delivery of image-related information, and also offers digitisation advice. |
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Informedia-II Digital Video Library - http://www.informedia.cs.cmu.edu/
Research at Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science to achieve machine understanding of video and film media, including all aspects of search, retrieval, visualization and summarization. |
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Digital Services Project - http://www.nla.gov.au/dsp/
Program documents from the National Library of Australia. |
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Digital Himalaya - http://www.digitalhimalaya.com/
A pilot project to develop digital collection, storage, and distribution strategies for multimedia anthropological information from the Himalayan region. |
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DIGLIB Mailing List - http://www.ifla.org/II/lists/diglib.htm
For digital library researchers, developers and librarians, hosted by the IFLA. |
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Building Sustainable Collections of Free Third-Party Web Resources - http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub98/contents.html
A report by Louis A. Pitschmann that identifies and synthesizes existing practices used in developing collections of free third-party Internet resources that support higher education and research. |
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KCL Digital Consultancy Service (KDCS) - http://www.digitalconsultancy.net/
Established at King's College London in September 2003, KDCS carries out research and provides fee-based consultancy services in the area of digitisation and digital resource management. Includes project examples, consultancy information and research publications. |
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NINCH Guide to Good Practice - http://www.nyu.edu/its/humanities/ninchguide/
guidance in the digital representation and management of cultural heritage materials by the Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII), University of Glasgow, and the National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage. |
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King's Digital Consultancy Services - http://www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk/
Provides expertise and consultants for the creation and management of digital resources to museums, libraries and cultural organisations in the UK. |
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Stanford Digital Library Technologies Project - http://diglib.stanford.edu/
Documents and information on the design and implementation of the infrastructure and services needed for collaboratively creating, disseminating, sharing and managing information. |
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A Survey of Digital Aggregation Services. - http://www.diglib.org/pubs/brogan/
Martha Brogan provides an overview of a diverse set of more than thirty digital library aggregation services, organizes them into functional clusters and then evaluates them more fully from the perspective of an informed user. |
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UIUC Digital Library Testbed - http://dli.grainger.uiuc.edu/idli/idli.htm
Reports, presentations, publications and information from the project at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. |
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DELOS Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries (FP5) - http://delos-noe.iei.pi.cnr.it/
An initiative funded by the European Commission's Information Society Technologies 5th Framework Programme (IST-FP5) to support and encourage research activities. |
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WebArchivist - http://www.webarchivist.org/
A research and software development group based at the University of Washington and the SUNY Institute of Technology that works with scholars, librarians and archivists interested in preserving and analyzing materials created for and distributed on the Web. Creates web-based tools, helps with project design and procedures, and develops institutional policies necessary to complete these tasks. |
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Digital Library Competence Center (DLibCenter) - http://dlibcenter.iei.pi.cnr.it/
The center provides specific user communities with access to advanced technologies, services, expertise and knowledge with courses for librarians, archivists, scholars and technicians. The site is available in English and Italian. |
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British Columbia Digital Library - http://bcdlib.tc.ca
Guide to full-text collections and resources, including software tools and standards by the British Columbia Community Networks Association; also dedicated to the digitization and storage of local publications. |
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Modeling Users' Successive Searches in Digital Environments: A National Science Foundation/British Library Funded Study - http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april98/04spink.html
Research project to investigate the nature, manifestations, and behavior of successive users in digital environments, and to derive criteria for use in the design of information retrieval interfaces and systems supporting successive searching behavior. |
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MarcOnt Initiative - http://www.marcont.org/
Ontology development based on a social agreement that will combine descriptions from MARC21 together with DublinCore and makes use of the full potential of the Semantic Web technologies. |
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Digital Libraries Initiative - http://dli.grainger.uiuc.edu/national.htm
Supporting research and projects furthering the development of digital libraries. Includes links to projects, tools, and resources. |
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NSF/DARPA/NASA Digital Libraries Initiative - http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july98/07griffin.html
Describes the Digital Libraries Initiative and focuses on how management can implement it. |
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Digital and Preservation Online Resource Center - http://digitalcooperative.oclc.org/
Provided by the OCLC Digitization and Preservation Outreach Center, this site hosts information about copyright, digitization, grants assistance, preservation and news and events. |
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Tilburg Innovation Centre for Electronic Resources (Ticer BV) - http://www.ticer.nl/
Centre based at Tilburg University, the Netherlands, whose primary activities include consultancy and organising an annual international summer school, and other courses and seminars. |
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Touch and Turn - http://www.touchandturn.com/
A Swedish company based in Stockholm that delivers software solutions for virtual browsing with touch screen technology, publishes rare books and develops Internet based services for mediation. |
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Annotated Bibliography of Digital Library Related Sources - http://liinwww.ira.uka.de/bibliography/Misc/digital.library.html
List of references originally compiled by Steven Ketchpel at Stanford University, forms part of a collection of bibliographies of scientific literature in computer science. |
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Rutgers Distributed Laboratory for Digital Libraries - http://scils.rutgers.edu/RDLDL/
Interdisciplinary environment designed to address research and educational issues relevant to development, understanding and implementation. |
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LOCKSS Permanent Publishing on the Web - http://lockss-docs.stanford.edu/
Allows individual libraries to safeguard their community's access to Web content. Project funded by Stanford University, The National Science Foundation, and Sun Microsystems. |
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Parity Computing - http://www.paritycomputing.com/web/index.html
Communications company based in San Diego, focused on digital library technologies including complete turn-key solutions and customized services. Main clients include IEEE, Springer-Verlag, and ACM. |
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Center for the Study of Digital Libraries - http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/
Established in 1995 at Texas A&M University and builds upon research developed in the Hypermedia Research Laboratory established in 1987. Includes research, publications, events and course information. |
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http://www.ebase.uce.ac.uk/evalued/ - http://www.ebase.uce.ac.uk/evalued/
Project based at the University of Central England to develop a transferable evaluation model for e-library developments, which began in December 2001 and completed in May 2004. There is a link to the evaluation toolkit from the homepage. |
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Colorado Digitization Project - http://www.cdpheritage.org
A collaborative initiative to provide access to the unique collections of local archives, historical societies, libraries, and museums. Includes guidelines, standards, resources and links to further information. |
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Research Institute on Digital Libraries (RIDL) - http://www.cs.mdx.ac.uk/ridl/index.html
Institute based at the University of Middlesex working on various funded projects concerning the design and use of Digital Libraries. |
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National Digital Library Program - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/dli2/html/lcndlp.html
Program information and resources for the Library of Congress digitization programs. |
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DIGI-EVAL - http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/digi-eval.html
Mailing list to support the eVALUEd project and enable discussion of issues concerning the evaluation of electronic library initiatives. |
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Canadian Initiative on Digital Libraries - http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/206/301/lac-bac/cidl-ef/2007-09-28/cidl/index-e.html
An alliance of Canadian libraries and organizations to promote, coordinate and facilitate the development of collections and services. Contains general information with links to members' projects and further resources; also available in French. |