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Digital library programmes

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Beyond the Beginning: The Global Digital Library: Proceedings of a UK conference on digital libraries held in June 1997. Includes material on the world of digital information, research and development programmes, changing relationships between information, education and learning, measurement of activities in the information field, progress in using metadata, developments in enforcing user authentication, and intellectual property issues.
Author: Marc Fresko Consultancy, UKOLN
Subjects: digital library philosophy, digital library programmes
DeweyClass: 025.0
Resource type: proceedings
Building Digital Collections: Technical Information and Background Papers: Provides an insight into the digitisation process, covering technical procedures such as conversion, scanning, text mark-up, repository development, web interface design, workflow and production, and rights and restrictions.
Author: Library of Congress
Subjects: digital library programmes, digitisation
DeweyClass: 025.0
Resource type: documents
Digital Libraries Initiative: Introduces and describes the US Digital Libraries Initiative. Includes links to the projects at participating institutions, lists of contacts and publications.
Author: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Subjects: digital library programmes
DeweyClass: 025.0
Resource type: guide
Digital Libraries Initiative Phase Two: Details of a range of US digital libraries research projects and applications designed to accelerate development, management, and accessibility of digital content and collections, to create new capabilities and opportunities for digital libraries to serve existing and new user communities, and to encourage the study of interactions between people and digital libraries in various social and organisational contexts.
Author: National Science Foundation
Subjects: digital library programmes, united states libraries
DeweyClass: 025
Resource type: document
Digital Library Projects: A selection of Columbia University digital projects and initiatives.
Author: Columbia University Libraries
Subjects: digital library programmes
DeweyClass: 025.5
Resource type: document
Digital library projects, initiatives and research centers: Presents links to digital library initiatives around the world, arranged by continent.
Author: KnowLib
Subjects: digital library programmes
DeweyClass: 025.0
Resource type: service
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 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
ELIB: Electronic Libraries Programme: Major research programme, 1998 to 2001, which emerged from the Follett Report. The programme has resulted in around 60 projects in a number of areas: Access to Network Resources, Digitisation, Electronic Document Delivery, Electronic Journals, Electronic Short Loan, Images, On Demand Publishing, Preprints, Quality Assurance, Supporting Studies, Training and Awareness.
Author: UKOLN
Subjects: academic library research, digital library programmes, digitisation, document delivery, electronic journal production
DeweyClass: 025.0
Resource type: documents, index
IFLANET: Digital Libraries: Resources and Projects: IFLA (The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions) is the leading international body representing the interests of library and information services and their users.
Author: IFLANET
Subjects: digital library programmes
DeweyClass: 025.0
Resource type: document
Information Society Website: European Commission initiative to support, promote and orient private and public action in the field of the information society. Facilitates contacts between potential partners, raises awareness and provides a forum for pooling solutions.
Author: European Commission
Subjects: digital library programmes, european business, information society
DeweyClass: 025.0
Resource type: documents
Library of Virginia Digital Collections: Program which aims to preserve, digitize, and provide access to significant archival and library collections. Includes Virginia Colonial Records Project, US Army Signal Corps Photographs, Virginia Newspaper Project, Board of Public Works Inventory and the Family Bible Records Project.
Author: Library of Virginia
Subjects: digital library collections, digital library programmes, historical data, united states history - local
DeweyClass: 975
Resource type: document collection
Multilingual Information Processing Infrastructure for Global Digital Libraries: EPICIST: Article proposing and evaluating a character or symbol code infrastructure called EPICIST (Efficient, Programmable and Interchangeable Code Infrastructure for Symbols and Texts) for multilingual and multi-cultural information processing. Covers several aspects of processing including searching, sorting, and compression.
Author: Osawa, Noritaka
Subjects: digital library programmes
DeweyClass: 025.0
Resource type: article
National Digital Library for Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology Education: Article discussing the potential for a US national digital library for science, mathematics, engineering, and technology education.
Author: Wattenberg, Frank
Subjects: digital library programmes
DeweyClass: 025.0
Resource type: article
National Library of Australia Digital Services Project: Project established to manage the National Library of Australia's collections of digital Australiana and improve national access to digital collections. Offers an information paper and an overview of the project, detailing the context, national infrastructure, priorities and standards involved.
Author: National Library of Australia
Subjects: australian libraries, digital library collections, digital library programmes
DeweyClass: 025.0
Resource type: documents
Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD): An international organisation dedicated to promoting the adoption, creation, use, dissemination and preservation of electronic analogues to the traditional paper-based theses and dissertations. This website contains information about the initiative, how to set up Electronic Theses and Dissertation (ETD) programmes, how to create and locate ETDs, and current research in digital libraries related to NDLTD and ETDs.
Author: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD)
Subjects: digital library programmes, scholarly communication
DeweyClass: 080
Resource type: thesis index
Pennsylvania Education Net Digital Object Repository (PEN-DOR): an Object Based, Distributed Digital Library in Support of Curriculum Development: Article examining the value of digital libraries in education by establishing one where teachers, students and administrators share their experiences of teaching and learning and collate resources for lesson plans and tutorials. The implementation of such a digital library, PEN-DOR, in several schools is discussed.
Author: Bright, Michael; Fullerton Karen; Rasmussen Edie & Stewart Darin L.
Subjects: digital library programmes, educational methods, school internet use
DeweyClass: 371.1
Resource type: article