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Digital library standards

      Titles Descriptions
  1. Archiving Aerial Photography and Remote Sensing Data
  2. Creating a Permanent Digital Archive of Local Materials
  3. Development of Functions to Prevent Secondary Use of Digitized Materials for Digital Libraries
  4. Digital Libraries: Metadata Resources
  5. Digital Preservation Coalition - The Handbook
  6. DOI: Digital Object Identifier System
  7. Dublin Core Metadata
  8. Dublin Core Metadata Initiative: Dublin Core Qualifiers
  9. eLib Standards Guidelines
  10. Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections
  11. Handbook for Digital Projects: A Management Tool for Preservation and Access
  12. IMS Global Learning Consortium
  13. Metadata Resources: Dublin Core
  14. METS: Metadata encoding and transmission standard

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Archiving Aerial Photography and Remote Sensing Data
Good practice report to documenting and organising aerial photography, remote sensing, archaeological, and digital data.
     Author: Bewley, Robert; Donoghue, Danny; Gaffney, Vince; Leusen, Martijn van & Wise, Alicia
     Subjects: digital library archiving, digital library standards, photography, remote sensing
     DeweyClass: 778.35
     Resource type: document
Creating a Permanent Digital Archive of Local Materials
Report of a project funded by the Scottish Library and Information Council (SLIC) to establish procedures for local content creation in small and medium-sized library authorities in Scotland. Addresses options for continuing the development of collections beyond the short-term project funding currently on offer, and permanent conservation of collections.
     Author: Martin, Don & Winch, Stephen
     Subjects: digital library standards, digitisation
     DeweyClass: 025.0
     Resource type: document
Development of Functions to Prevent Secondary Use of Digitized Materials for Digital Libraries
Conference paper discussing copyright violation of digital libraries. Considers factors required by copyright holders, users, the private information service industry and library operators, technical issues and methods for inhibiting redistribution of material.
     Author: Nakata, Junji; Tomita, Taminori & Kinukawa, Hiroshi
     Subjects: copyright, digital library standards
     DeweyClass: 025.0
     Resource type: article
Digital Libraries: Metadata Resources
Links to documents archived by IFLA and external resources relating to metadata. Metadata is data about data. The term refers to any data used to aid the identification, description and location of networked electronic resources.
     Author: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions
     Subjects: digital library standards, internet resource classification, metadata
     DeweyClass: 025.344
     Resource type: documents
Digital Preservation Coalition - The Handbook
Handbook providing an internationally authoritative and practical guide to the subject of managing digital resources over time, and the issues in sustaining access to them. The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is a collaborative organisation encompassing bodies such as the British Library, the Joint Information Systems Committee and the National Library of Australia aiming to secure the preservation of digital resources in the UK, and to promote related standards on a global scale.
     Author: Jones, Maggie & Beagrie, Neil
     Subjects: digital library management, digital library standards, digitisation, preservation
     DeweyClass: 025.84
     Resource type: book
DOI: Digital Object Identifier System
The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) system was designed by the Association of American Publishers to provide a unique identification for digital content and a way to link users of the materials to the rights holders, and to facilitate automated digital commerce.
     Author: International DOI Foundation
     Subjects: digital library standards, electronic commerce, library and information science research
     DeweyClass: 025.0
     Resource type: documents
Dublin Core Metadata
The Dublin Core is a 15-element metadata set intended to facilitate discovery of electronic resources. Originally conceived for author-generated description of Web resources, it has also attracted the attention of formal resource description communities such as museums and libraries.
     Author: OCLC
     Subjects: digital library standards, dublin core, metadata
     DeweyClass: 025.344
     Resource type: documents
Dublin Core Metadata Initiative: Dublin Core Qualifiers
Describes the principles governing the Dublin Core element refinement and encoding scheme qualifiers. Also provides a summary and definitions approved by the DCMI Usage Committee.
     Author: OCLC
     Subjects: digital library standards, dublin core, metadata
     DeweyClass: 025.344
     Resource type: document
eLib Standards Guidelines
Provides advice and guidance for eLib projects. Guidelines are from 1996 and 1998, covering a wide range of electronic format and interchange standards, as well as references to more detailed reading.
     Author: Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib)
     Subjects: digital library standards
     DeweyClass: 025.0
     Resource type: article
Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections
2004 edition of NISO's guidelines, which provide an overview of some of the major components and activities involved in creating good digital collections, as well as a framework for identifying, organising, and applying existing knowledge and resources to support the development of sound local practices for creating and managing good digital collections. Available in PDF and HTML formats.
     Author: National Information Standards Organization
     Subjects: digital library collections, digital library standards
     DeweyClass: 025.0
     Resource type: guide
Handbook for Digital Projects: A Management Tool for Preservation and Access
Full text publication outlining a rationale for digitisation and preservation. Considers issues involved in project management, the selection process of materials for scanning, copyright issues, technical concerns, the development of best practices, vendor relations, and digital longevity. Available in PDF format.
     Author: Northeast Document Conservation Center
     Subjects: digital library management, digital library standards, preservation
     DeweyClass: 025.0
     Resource type: non-fiction ebook
IMS Global Learning Consortium
The IMS Global Learning Consortium develops and promotes the adoption of open technical specifications for interoperable learning technology.
     Author: IMS Global Learning Consortium, Inc.
     Subjects: digital library standards, metadata
     DeweyClass: 025.344
     Resource type: documents
Metadata Resources: Dublin Core
Resources about the Dublin Metadata Core Element Set, a simple information resource description which also aims to provide a basis for semantic interoperability between other, probably more complicated, formats and is also intended to provide the basis for resource embedded description, initially with HTML documents.
     Author: Powell, Andy
     Subjects: digital library standards, dublin core, internet resource classification, metadata
     DeweyClass: 025.344
     Resource type: index
METS: Metadata encoding and transmission standard
The METS schema is a standard for encoding descriptive, administrative, and structural metadata regarding objects within a digital library, expressed using the XML schema language of the World Wide Web Consortium. Includes news, documents, and sample schemas.
     Author: Library of Congress
     Subjects: digital library standards, metadata
     DeweyClass: 025.344
     Resource type: documents