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Digital library design

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Across Languages, Across Cultures: Issues in Multilinguality and Digital Libraries: Article discussing some of the issues that must be addressed in order to implement a multilingual interface for a digital library system, describing the approach undertaken at the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche in Pisa, Italy.
Author: Peters, Carol & Picchi, Eugenio
Subjects: digital library design
DeweyClass: 025.0
Resource type: article
Agora: Aims to provide an open, standards based platform for distributed, mixed-media information management as well as a framework for end-user-oriented services and an infrastructure which can be scaled up to provide the backbone for national access to distributed collections. The outcome of the project work will be a layer of software or 'middleware' which hides the underlying differences between resources allowing for both seamless access as well as the transparent addition of new services and resources.
Author: University of East Anglia, UKOLN, CERLIM, Fretwell-Downing Informatics Limited
Subjects: digital library design
DeweyClass: 025.0
Resource type: document
BUILDER: Birmingham University Integrated Library Development and Electronic Resource: Project to develop a working model of the hybrid library within both a teaching and research context, seamlessly integrating access to a wide range of printed and electronic information sources, local and remote, using a Web-based interface. The model will focus on a series of six inter-related modules (user registration and induction; ordering and delivery of materials; metadata index for printed and electronic sources; teaching and learning; publication and digitisation and access gateways) which will be developed for and applied across six subject areas: history and archaeology, business, education, physics, sports science and medicine.
Author: University of Birmingham, eLib
Subjects: digital library design
DeweyClass: 025.0
Resource type: document
Center for Research and Development of Digital Libraries (CRADLE): CRADLE is a community of researchers, practitioners, and educators interested in digital libraries. They have many active areas of digital library research, train digital librarians in the university, and provide continuing education to those in the community.
Author: University of North Carolina
Subjects: digital library design, digital library research
DeweyClass: 025.0
Resource type: document
Centre for Digital Libraries Research: The Centre is involved in real applications of digital libraries, museums and galleries in order to fully understand the user's requirements, real-world problems and to develop research. It works on multimedia archives for museums and galleries or virtual museums. The Multimedia Research Group has particular expertise in linkbases (links stored outside the material), agents, object-oriented databases, content-based retrieval and accurate imaging.
Author: University of Southampton
Subjects: digital library design, digital library research
DeweyClass: 025.0
Resource type: document
Digital Library System at Kyoto University: Paper describing a digital library system at Kyoto University, whose construction began in April 1997. Covers the key concepts of the system, content, and advanced aspects such as translation and search facilities.
Author: Kurohashi, Sadao, & Nagao, Makoto
Subjects: digital library design, digital library programmes
DeweyClass: 025.0
Resource type: article
Digital Library Tool Kit, 3rd Edition: Sponsored by Sun Microsystems Computer Company in order to address some of the leading questions that academic institutions, public libraries, government agencies, and museums face in trying to develop digital content and distribute it on the Worldwide Web. Covers planning and implementation, resources, current research, existing digital library systems, and future developments.
Author: Sun Microsystems
Subjects: digital library design, library internet use
DeweyClass: 025.0
Resource type: documents
Digital Strategy for the Library of Congress: Report from July 2000 urging the library to define policies for the collection of Web resources created in the US, so as to uphold its mission, and to form a high-level planning group to develop digital preservation strategies. Chapter titles include Preserving a Digital Heritage, The Library of Congress and the World Beyond Its Walls, and Information Technology Infrastructure.
Author: Committee on an Information Technology Strategy for the Library of Congress and Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, National Research Council
Subjects: digital library design, digital library programmes, preservation
DeweyClass: 025.0
Resource type: document
D-lib: Full text magazine with stories, commentary, briefings and a collection of resources for digital library research.
Author: Corporation for National Research Initiatives
Subjects: digital library design, digital library research, digital library use
DeweyClass: 025.0
Resource type: magazine
HEADLINE: Hybrid Electronic Access and Delivery in the Library Networked Environment: Aims to define development of the end-user library environment, going beyond resource discovery to resource access, establish a working model for consistent access for library materials regardless of physical form and implement the model in a real-life environment.
Author: London School of Economics and Political Science, London Business School, Hertfordshire University
Subjects: digital library design
DeweyClass: 025.0
Resource type: document
Java and Libraries: Digital and Otherwise: The Java programming language has some special implications for library technologies including, but not limited to, software distribution, off-line searching and data manipulation, maintenance reduction, sophisticated database interaction, and user interface design. This article briefly introduces Java and discusses how it might be used in library applications.
Author: Jones, Paul
Subjects: computer programming - java, digital library design
DeweyClass: 005.133
Resource type: article
Journal of Digital Information: Online journal which publishes papers on the management, presentation and uses of information in digital environments. Themes include digital information design, digital libraries, hypermedia systems, information management, intelligent agents, interfaces to digital information, and social consequences. Access to articles is free. The journal offeres readers a publishing notification service.
Author: British Computer Society and Oxford University Press
Subjects: digital library design, information management in libraries, intelligent software agents
DeweyClass: 025.0
Resource type: journal
Kartoo: A meta-search engine offering a relational search interface. Displays search results in a graphical and networked format. Nodes are linked to each other by common terms which can be added or removed to refine searches graphically. Links between nodes are colour coded allowing users to identify how terms relate to different resources. Nodes are also displayed by size, according to their relevance to the search term.
Author: Kartoo
Subjects: digital library design, internet resource discovery
DeweyClass: 025.04
Resource type: index
Layered Data View for Searching, Browsing, and Presenting Scholarly Documents: Paper discussing suitable text formats for searching, browsing, and presenting scholarly documents as a digital library service. Printed document sources and electronic text are considered.
Author: Oyama, Keizo
Subjects: digital library design, scholarly communication
DeweyClass: 025.0
Resource type: article
Middleware for Digital Libraries: Article discussing the use of intermediate software (middleware) to support distributed applications, using the provision of digital library services by universities as an example of a domain that poses many of the problems typical to this area.
Author: Bacon, Jean; Hayton, Richard & Moody, Ken
Subjects: digital library design, digital library security
DeweyClass: 025.0
Resource type: article
MODELS: Moving to Distributed Environments for Library Services: The MODELS project involves the examination of metadata and the collections they describe. Metadata and collections currently reside in multiple disjointed print and digital resource spaces. MODELS seeks to explain and analyse some of the issues involved in reducing this disjointedness and moving towards more unified access to information systems and resources.
Author: UKOLN
Subjects: digital library design, metadata, z39.50
DeweyClass: 025.0
Resource type: documents
Multi-Media, Multi-Cultural, and Multi-Lingual Digital Libraries: Draws attention to the multilingual issues involved in designing digital libraries accessible on the Internet. Many of the multi-lingual design issues parallel those of multimedia digital libraries. Provides examples from multimedia digital libraries to illustrate some of the urgent design challenges in creating a globally distributed network serving people who speak many languages other than English.
Author: Borgman, Christine L.
Subjects: digital library design
DeweyClass: 025.0
Resource type: article
National Digital Library Competition: Lessons Learned: A summary of various lessons learned about digitisation projects, extracted, summarised, and paraphrased from reports submitted by award winners. Topics include formats and specifications for digital reproduction, production workflow, project management, and intellectual access.
Author: Library of Congress
Subjects: digital library design, digitisation
DeweyClass: 025.0
Resource type: documents
Realizing the Hybrid Library: Article outlining a number of eLib projects which are investigating ways in which the concept of the hybrid library can be implemented. It discusses each of these projects in turn, and looks at the key technological and managerial issues emerging from these projects.
Author: Pinfield, Stephen et al.
Subjects: digital library design
DeweyClass: 025.0
Resource type: article
Serving Users in Many Languages: Cross-Language Information Retrieval for Digital Libraries: Discussion of technical approaches to cross-language information retrieval looking at user needs and highlighting some worldwide initiatives.
Author: Oard, Douglas W.
Subjects: digital library design, information retrieval
DeweyClass: 025.0
Resource type: article
Social Functions of Digital Libraries: Designing Information Resources for Virtual Communities: Conference paper (January 1999) which explores the nature of digital libraries as social institutions, and suggests an agenda for action for librarians and information science. It asserts that the future of libraries will be determined more by intellectual property policy than by technology, as it is not information per se that is valuable, but the modes of access and use of information by individuals and groups that create value; and these in turn are controlled by intellectual property policy.
Author: Lyman, Peter
Subjects: digital library design, information society, intellectual property
DeweyClass: 025.0
Resource type: article
Technical Aspects of Next Generation Digital Library Project: Conference paper (1997) discussing the technical features required for the development of a digital library. These include appropriate system architecture, individual technologies such as search and retrieval technology, and an integration technology.
Author: Mukaiyama, Hiroshi
Subjects: digital library design
DeweyClass: 025.0
Resource type: article
Towards a General Theory of the Digital Library: Article covering various aspects of digital libraries including definition and theory, characteristics, funding, authority, censorship and libraries as publishers. The implications of digital libraries for culture, learning, democracy, commerce, jobs and society are discussed.
Author: Collier, Mel
Subjects: digital library design
DeweyClass: 025.0
Resource type: article