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BIBLIOGRAPHY Association of Research Libraries. "Definition and Purposes of a Digital Library." October 23, 1995. Bailey, C.W. Scholarly electronic publishing bibliography. URL: http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html Barata, Kimberly. Bibliography on electronic records. URL: http://www.lis.pitt.edu/~nhprc/bibtc.html Bauwens, Michel. "Cybrarians Manifesto." Business Information Review, April 1993. Posted to PACS-L, April 20, 1993. Bearman, David. "Virtual Archives." ICA Meeting, September 1996, Beijing. Draft paper. British Library. "The British Library Information Systems Strategy." November 1995. URL: http://portico.bl.uk/iss/ Davis, James R. and Lagoze, Carl. "Dienst, A Protocol for a Distributed Digital Document Library." "This document describes Dienst, a protocol for communication with distributed digital library servers. This protocol provides an object-oriented interface to a document model, which allows a user to access complete documents or named sub-parts. It also supports multiple formats for documents. Dienst protocol messages are embedded within HTTP, the protocol used over the World Wide Web. Thus, anyone using a Web browser (e.g. Mosaic, Cello) has access to the services provided by Dienst." URL: http://cs-tr.cs.cornell.edu/Dienst/htdocs/document_menu.html Day, M.W. Preservation of electronic information: a bibliography. URL: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/~lismd/preservation.html Digital Preservation Consortium. Mission and Goals. March 1994. Dempsey, Lorcan. "Network resource discovery: a European library perspective." British Library. Research and Development Department, 1994. URL: http://www.ub2.lu.se/UB2proj/LIS_collection/lorcan.html Fox, Edward, ed. Digital Library Source Book. 1993. URL: http://fox.cs.vt.edu/DLSB.html Fox, Edward, ed. Rethinking Libraries in the Information Age: Lessons Learned with Five Digital Library Projects URL: http://fox.cs.vt.edu:80/talks/UNC96/ Galloway, Edward A., and Gabrielle V. Michalek. "The Heinz Electronic Library Interactive Online System (HELIOS): Building a Digital Archive Using Imaging, OCR, and Natural Language Processing Technologies." The Public-Access Computer Systems Review 6, no. 4 (1995). Garrett, John. "Digital Libraries: The Grand Challenges." EDUCOM Review, July/August 1993, Volume 28, Number 4. Gladney, Henry M. et. al. "Digital Library: Gross Structure and Requirements (Report from a Workshop.)" IBM Research Report RJ 9840, May 1994. "Notwithstanding our enthusiasm for what digital library services promise, we feel that glib calls to replace convential publication entirely must be regarded skeptically. Preserving the cultural heritage ... has been better served by paper than digital means currently promise, and there is little funded work towards remedying this." Acrobat format: http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/documents/libraries/net/rj9840.pdf Graham, Peter. Bibliography on electronic library issues. URL: http://aultnis.rutgers.edu/texts/ElectLibBib.html Graham, Peter. "Requirements for the Digital Research Library." College and Research Libraries, July, 1995, p. 331-339. URL: http://aultnis.rutgers.edu/texts/drc.html Graham, Peter. "Intellectual Preservation: Electronic Preservation of the Third Kind." Washington, DC: Commission on Preservation and Access, March, 1994. Graham, Peter. "Long-Term Intellectual Preservation." RLG Symposium on Digital Imaging Technology at Cornell University, March, 1994. Graham, Peter. "Intellectual Preservation in the Electronic Environment. (1992)" Arnold Hirshon, ed., After the Electronic Revolution, Will You Be the First to Go? Proceedings of the 1992 Association for Library Collections and Technical Services President's Program (Chicago: ALA, 1993). Ketchpel, Steven. "Annotated Bibliography of Digital Library Related Sources." Stanford University. URL: http://robotics.stanford.edu/users/ketchpel/annbib.html Kuny, Terry and Cleveland, Gary. Digital Libraries: Myths and Challenges. Paper delivered at the 62nd IFLA General Conference - August 25-31, 1996. Acrobat version: http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla62/62-kuny.pdf Lesk, Michael. Image Formats for Preservation and Access. Commission for Preservation and Access. Technology Assessment Advisory Committee. July 1990. Lesk, Michael. The Seven Ages of Information Retrieval. URL: http://community.bellcore.com/lesk/ages/ages.html Librarians Association of the University of California. "New Horizons in Scholarly Communications" URL: http://www.ucsc.edu:80/scomm/ Lynn, M. Stuart. The Relationship Between Digital and Other Media Conversion Processes: A Structured Glossary of Technical Terms. Commission for Preservation and Access. Technology Assessment Advisory Committee. August 1990. (160 K) National Digital Library Federation (NDLF). NDLF Planning Task Force. Final Report. June 1996. National Digital Library Federation (NDLF). National Digital Library Federation Agreement Signed. May 1, 1995. Leaders of fifteen of the U.S.'s largest research libraries and archives and the Commission on Preservation and Access sign an agreement that pledges collaboration toward the establishment of a National Digital Library Federation. URL: http://lcweb.loc.gov/loc/ndlf/agree.html National Digital Library Federation (NDLF). America's Heritage: Mission and Goals for a National Digital Library Federation. OCLC. Tomorrow's Access, Today's Decisions: Ensuring Access to Today's Electronic Resources Tomorrow. Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual Conference of Research Library Directors. Sponsored by OCLC and the OCLC Research Libraries Advisory Committee. URL: http://www.oclc.org/oclc/man/9680rldc/toc.htm OCLC. OCLC's Assessing Information on the Internet: Toward Providing Library Services for Computer Mediated Communication. Note: this report is available in a set of Postscript files only. URL: http://www.oclc.org:5047/oclc/research/publications/aii/table.html Newby, Gregory B. "The Digital Electronic Library." January 29, 1991. Pitti, Daniel V. "The Berkeley Finding Aid Project: Standards in Navigation.." University of California, Berkeley. Schwartz, Michael, ed. Report of the Distributed Indexing/Searching Workshop. May 28-19, 1996. Cambridge, Massachusetts. Sponsored by the World Wide Web Consortium. URL: http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/Search/9605-Indexing-Workshop/ Task Force on Archiving Digital Information. Preserving Digital Information: Final Report and Recommendations. May 20, 1996. URL: http://www.rlg.org/ArchTF/index.html [Acrobat format] Preserving Digital Information: Draft Report. Commissioned by the Commission on Preservation and Access and the Research Libraries Group. Version 1.0 August 23, 1995. Waters, Don. "Some Considerations on the Archiving of Digital Information." January, 1995. Waters, Don. "The Social Organization of Archiving Digital Information." Waters, Don. "Electronic Technologies and Preservation." Based on a Presentation to the Annual Meeting of the Research Libraries Group, June 25, 1992. ^ PERIODICALS D-Lib Magazine (Digital Library Magazine) URL: http://www.dlib.org Initiatives in Digital Information. Quarterly. University of Michigan. URL: http://www.lib.umich.edu/libhome/IDINews/ International Journal of Digital Libraries. Quarterly. URL: http://cimic3.rutgers.edu/jodl/ Journal of Electronic Publishing URL: http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/ The National Digital Library Program. Library of Congress. URL: http://lcweb.loc.gov/ndl/per.html RLG DigiNews URL: http://www.rlg.org/toc.html ^ CONFERENCES First European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. September 1-3, 1997: Pisa, Italy. URL: http://www.area.pi.cnr.it/ErcimDL/dl3.html IJCAI-97 Workshop on AI in Digital Libraries. August 24, 1997: Nagoya, Japan. URL: http://www.dlib.com/people/innes/aiindl/cfp.html Digital Libraries '97: 2nd ACM International Conference on Digital Libraries. July 23-26, 1997: Philadelphia, PA. URL: http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~diglib97/ ELVIRA 4 (Electronic Library and Visual Information) Conference on Digital Library Research. May 6-8, 1997: Milton Keynes, UK. URL: http://www.iielr.dmu.ac.uk/ELVIRA/ELVIRA4/ 5th BOBCATSSS symposium: "New Book Economy" January 27-30th, 1997: Budapest, Hungary. URL: http://www.xs4all.nl/~eef/BOBCATSSS/97/index.html SIGIR '96: Workshop on Networked Information Retrieval August 22, 1996. URL: http://ciir.cs.umass.edu/nir96/ Organizing the Global Digital Library II and Naming Conventions. Library of Congress, May 21-22, 1996. URL: http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/ogdl2/ ELVIRA`96 3rd International Conference on Electronic Library and Visual Information Research The UK Digital Libraries Conference. 30 April - 2 May 1996. URL: http://ford.mk.dmu.ac.uk/ELVIRA/elvira3.html Social Aspects of Digital Libraries Workshop held at the UCLA Department of Library and Information Science. February 16-17, 1996. URL: http://www.gslis.ucla.edu/DL/ Final Report. [Acrobat version] Proceedings of the First IEEE Metadata Conference Silver Spring, Maryland. April 16-18, 1996. URL: http://www.computer.org/conferen/meta96/meta_home.html ACM Digital Libraries '96. First ACM International Conference on Research and Development in Digital Libraries (announcement). URL: http://fox.cs.vt.edu/DL96/ How We Do User-Centered Design and Evaluation of Digital Libraries: A Methodological Forum 37th Allerton Institute, 1995. Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. URL: http://edfu.lis.uiuc.edu/allerton/95/ ISDL'95: International Symposium on Digital Libraries 1995. University of Library and Information Science, Tsukuba Science City, Ibaraki, Japan, August 22 - 25, 1995. URL: http://www.DL.ulis.ac.jp/ISDL95/ Digital Libraries '95. Proceedings of the Second International Conference on the Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries. Austin, Texas, USA. June 11-13, 1995. URL: http://bush.cs.tamu.edu/dl95/README.html 1995 Workshop on Digital Libraries. IITA - Interoperability, Scaling, and the Digital Libraries Research Agenda, May 18-19, Reston, Virginia. URL: http://www-diglib.stanford.edu/diglib/pub/reports/iita-dlw/main.html ADL '95: Forum on Research and Technology Advances in Digital Libraries, May 15-17, 1995. May 15-17, 1995: McLean, VA. URL: http://sdcd.gsfc.nasa.gov/DIV-NEWS/adl.html Digital Libraries Conference. Singapore Information Technology Institute. March 27-28, 1995. URL: http://www.iti.gov.sg/iti_info/event/conference/Dlib.html AAAI Spring Symposium on Information Gathering from Heterogeneous, Distributed Environments. March 27-29, 1995, Stanford University. This was an Artificial Intelligence Symposium that looked at machine-assisted retrieval of networked information. URL: http://www.isi.edu/sims/knoblock/sss95/proceedings.html Digital Libraries '94. Proceedings of the First Annual Conference on the Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries. College Station, Texas, USA. June 19-21, 1994. URL: http://bush.cs.tamu.edu/dl94/README.html Building the Digital Library: Content Issues. Proceedings of the Library of Congress Network Advisory Committee, June 4-6, 1995. URL: http://lcweb.loc.gov/nac/nac29/ W3 Consortium. Collaboration, Knowledge Representation and Automatability. URL: http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/Collaboration/Overview.html Workshop on WWW and Collaboration, September 11-12, 1995. URL: http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/Collaboration/Workshop/ Workshop on Wide-Area Collaboration and Cooperative Computing, at Second International WWW Conference, October 19th, 1994. URL: http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/iiip/colab/workshop.html GENERIC CONFERENCE RESOURCES The International WWW Conference Series. URL: http://www.w3.org/pub/Conferences/Overview-WWW.html YAHOO WWW Conferences List. URL: http://www.yahoo.com/Computers/World_Wide_Web/Conferences/ World Wide Web Conferences. (W3) URL: http://www.w3.org/hypertext/Conferences/Overview-WWW.html ^ ORGANIZATIONS [ORG] IEEE. Digital Library Task Force. URL: http://cimic.rutgers.edu/ieee_dltf.html [ORG] International Institute for Electronic Library Research. URL: http://ford.mk.dmu.ac.uk/ [Australia] Management of Material in Electronic Format Working Party. Towards Federation 2001 - Linking Australians and their Heritage. "A national consultative conference, hosted by the National Library of Australia, on access to Australia' recorded documentary heritage was held in Canberra, Australia on 23-26 March 1992. The conference has 86 resolutions as its outcome and since that time the National Library of Australia has engaged in a thorough assessment of each resolution, its progress or lack thereof, and possible changes in the objective or action mechanism which might lead to faster and better progress in the future." URL: http://www.nla.gov.au/dnc/tf2001/elecwp.html [Australia] Information Management Steering Committee (IMSC). Architecture For Access To Government Information. Report of the Information Management Steering Committee (IMSC) -Technical Group. This group is tasked to investigate access architectures to government information in Australia, i.e. to Federal and State government information, and recommending future actions to follow. URL: http://www.adfa.oz.au/DOD/imsc/imsctg/imsctg1a.htm [Australia] Preserving Access to Digital Information (PADI). < URL: http://www.nla.gov.au/padi/ [European Union] European Commission. Telematics for Libraries Programme. Research and Development in the libraries sector of the Telematics Programme aims to facilitate access to the wealth of knowledge held in libraries throughout the European Union, while reducing disparities between national systems and practice. This is a comprehensive and important entry point for information about European digital library projects. URL: http://www.echo.lu/libraries/en/libraries.html [Japan] University of Library and Information Science. Digital Library Network (DLnet). Tsukuba Science City, Japan. August 31, 1994 URL: http://www.dl.ulis.ac.jp/DLW_E/ [United Kingdom] International Institute for Electronic Library Research. URL: http://ford.mk.dmu.ac.uk/ [UNESCO] Memory of the World. "The twofold purpose of the UNESCO's "Memory of the World" programme is to safeguard and promote the endangered world documentary heritage." URL: http://www.unesco.org:80/cii/memory/mempage.htm [US] Association of Research Libraries (ARL). URL: http://arl.cni.org/ [US] National Archives and Records Administration. Center for Electronic Records. URL: http://www.nara.gov/nara/electronic/ [US] Center for the Study of Digital Libraries. Texas A&M University. URL: http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/ [US] Center for Networked Information Discovery and Retrieval (CNIDR). URL: http://www.cnidr.org/ [US] Coalition for Networked Information. URL: http://www.cni.org/ [US] CIC (Committee on Institutional Cooperation) Center for Library Initiatives. URL: http://www.cic.net/cic/cli.html [US] Commission on Preservation and Access. URL: http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/cpa/ [US] Consortium for the Computer Interchange of Museum Information (CIMI). URL: http://www.cimi.org/ [US] Museum Computer Network. URL: http://world.std.com/~mcn/ [US] National Digital Library Federation (NDLF). URL: http://lcweb.loc.gov/loc/ndlf/ [US] National Science Foundation (NSF). Awards for Digital Libraries Research. URL: http://www-diglib.stanford.edu/diglib/pub/nsf.announce.html [US] OCLC: Online Computer Library Center URL: http://www.oclc.org/ [US] Research Libraries Group. URL: http://www.rlg.org/ [US] Digital Library SunSITE. University of California, Berkeley URL: http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/ ^ PROJECTS: GENERAL INDICES List of Virtual Libraries at CERN URL: http://www.w3.org/hypertext/DataSources/bySubject/Virtual_libraries/Overview.html dl-info Another digital libraries mailing list. URL: http://bush.cs.tamu.edu/dl-info.html § EXAMPLES: LIBRARY PRODUCED WWW SERVICES AND GUIDES The Argus Clearinghouse. URL: http://www.clearinghouse.com Berkeley Public Library Home Page. Maintained by Carol Leita URL: http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/bpl/ BYU Libraries Information Network . URL: http://www.lib.byu.edu/ Connecticut Library Home Page. URL: http://sun.ctstateu.edu/lib/ct_library.html INFOMINE. A collaborative project which includes participants from all 9 University of California campuses and Stanford University. One of the first academic virtual libraries. URL: http://lib-www.ucr.edu/ Mr. Serials Visits Cataloging. Eric Lease Morgan, NCSU Libraries. Morgan demonstrates the use of a URL in MARC field 856 to link to actual electronic texts. For the demonstration, use one of the examples he suggests and view the full record. A hypertext link will show in the record to the archive collection of the e-journal. URL: http://dewey.lib.ncsu.edu/staff/morgan/mr-serials-and-cataloging.html Larry Schankman's Best of the Best. URL: http://www.clark.net/pub/lschank/web/subject.html UU-NNA electronic library. An attempt is to create a fully accredited library over computer networks. URL: http://sturgeon.mit.edu:8001/uu-nna/meta-library/index.html § EXAMPLES: DIRECTORIES, INDICES, DATABASES AND GUIDES FOR INFORMATION ACCESS AND ORGANIZATION DA-CLOD - Distributedly Administered Categorical List Of Documents. URL: http://schiller.wustl.edu/DACLOD/daclod EFF's (Extended) Guide to the Internet. URL: http://www.Germany.EU.net/books/eegtti/eegtti.html EINet Galaxy. URL: http://www.einet.net/galaxy.html The HCI Bibliography Project. A free-access online extended bibliography on Human-Computer Interaction URL: http://hydra.bgsu.edu/HCI/ The Internet Services list. Based on Yanoff's Internet List URL: http://cs.indiana.edu/internet/internet.html Interpaedia discussion archive. Discussions about creating an internet encyclopaedia. URL: ftp://ftp.lm.com/pub/interpedia Joel's Hierarchical Subject Index. URL: http://www.teco.uni-karlsruhe.de/~michael/joels.html The Mother-of-all BBS. Collects WWW Home Pages for companies, universities, research centers, government agencies, research projects, hardware or software announcements URL: http://wwwmbb.cs.colorado.edu/~mcbryan/bb/summary.html NCSA's Internet Resources Meta-Index. URL: http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/Mosaic/MetaIndex.html Planet Earth Virtual Library. URL: http://www.nosc.mil/planet_earth/info/html W3 Virtual Library Searchable Catalog. URL: http://www.w3.org/pub/DataSources/bySubject/Overview.html Yanoff's Special Internet Connections. URL: http://www.spectracom.com/islist/ ^ PROJECTS: AMERICAS Carnegie-Mellon. Digital Video Library. "The Informedia (tm) Digital Video Library project will establish a large, on-line digital video library by developing intelligent, automatic mechanisms to populate the library and allow for full-content and knowledge-based search and retrieval via desktop computer and metropolitan area networks. Initially, the library will be populated with 1000 hours of raw and edited video drawn from video assets of WQED/Pittsburgh, Fairfax County (VA) Public Schools, and the Open University (U.K.). We will deploy the library at Carnegie Mellon University and local area K-12 Schools." URL: http://fuzine.mt.cs.cmu.edu/im/ Columbia University. Oversized Colour Images Digitization Project. "This URL contains the results of a project, under contract to the Commission on Preservation and Access, to identify the most acceptable preservation and access techniques available for oversize, color images associated with text. Five maps from brittle volumes have been scanned, as have single-frame color microfiche of the maps (produced during an earlier Commission-sponsored project) and 4 x 5" color transparencies. Paper printouts have been made from each digital version." URL: http://www.columbia.edu/dlc/nysmb/ Columbia University. Project Bartleby: The Public Library of the Internet. "Bartleby's 3,000 pages of text on-line may not seem monumental at first, but consider that Whitman's Leaves of Grass released in March 1994 was one of the first on-line books of classic literature that was "native" to hypertext on the WorldWide Web; that Project Bartleby is currently one of the largest public collections of on-line literature; and that it's considered the finest example of public electronic publishing--maintaining strict editorial and quality-control procedures." URL: http://www.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/ Cornell University. Cornell Digital Library Web Interface. URL: http://library.cornell.edu/dienst-data/cdl.html See also Cornell Office of Information Technologies. URL: http://OITNEXT.CIT.CORNELL.EDU:80/ Cornell University. CUPID - Consortium for University Printing and Information Distribution. "'CUPID' is an acronym for the Consortium for University Printing and Information Distribution, an informal and open collection of colleges and universities interested in the distributed printing over the Internet of finished, high-quality, production documents. CUPID was created four years ago by the Xerox University Advisory Panel and now exists as a project under CNI (the Coalition for Networked Information), receiving financial support from Kodak, Sun, and Xerox." URL: http://OITNEXT.CIT.CORNELL.EDU:80/CUPID/ Elsevier Science, et. al. TULIP - The University Licensing Project. "TULIP is an initiative of Elsevier Science Publishers to explore the issues involved in electronic distribution of scholarly journals. The TULIP project involves nine universities and about forty Materials Science journal titles." URL: http://tulipsrvr.engin.umich.edu/tulip/ Final Report. 1996. URL: http://www.elsevier.nl:80/homepage/about/resproj/trmenu.htm Emory University. Digital Library Project. "In today's environment access to networked information is rapidly transforming libraries and reducing reliance on vast, locally-owned print collections. With support from the Luce Foundation in New York City, Emory University has undertaken a three year project to develop a blueprint for a prototype digital library. [...] Emory will explore the many governance, organizational, economic, educational, and technological issues to be faced in developing and implementing this prototype." URL: http://www.library.emory.edu/VL/vlhome.html IBM. Digital Library. Includes work with the Vatican Library, Institute for Scientific Information, and the Los Angeles Public Library. URL: http://www.ibm.com/Features/library/ Library of Congress. Digital Library Collections. URL: http://lcweb.loc.gov/ American Memory. URL: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/amhome.html American Memory Background Papers and Technical Information. URL: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ftpfiles.html American Special Collections. URL: http://lcweb.loc.gov/spcoll/spclhome.html Country Studies/Area Handbook Program. URL: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html Electronic Exhibits. URL: http://lcweb.loc.gov/homepage/exhibits.html THOMAS: Legislative Information on the Internet. URL: http://thomas.loc.gov/ McGill University. Music Library of the Future. URL: http://lecaine.music.mcgill.ca/MLF_Project/Html/MLF_Home.html National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Digital Library Technology Project - Core Technologies for the National Information Infrastructure. "The Digital Library Technology (DLT) project and the Public Use of Remote Sensing Data (RSD) project, are two related elements of the Information Infrastructure Technology and Applications component of NASA's High Performance Computing and Communications Program. The DLT Project supports the development of new technologies to facilitate public access to NASA data via computer networks. Of highest priority are those technologies that develop tools, applications, and software and hardware systems that are able to scale upward to accomodate evolving user requirements and order-of-magnitude increases in user access. Although most of the technology is envisioned to be developed in the private sector, an inhouse skill base must be acquired and maintained in key areas of developing technology such as the integration of multimedia data, wide-area networking, resource discovery, and intelligent information retrieval." URL: http://dlt.gsfc.nasa.gov/ National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Information Infrastructure Technology and Applications (IITA). "The goal of the Information Infrastructure Technology and Applications component in the NASA HPCC Program is to accelerate the implementation of a National Information Infrastructure through NASA science, engineering and technology contributions. Because the IITA component is responsive to the administration's goal of building new partnerships between the Federal and non-Federal sectors of U.S. society, the IITA component has an explicit goal of putting 80 percent of its funding outside NASA and will emphasize serving new communities." URL: http://iita.ivv.nasa.gov/iita1.html National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Public Use of Remote Sensing Data - Core Technologies for the National Information Infrastructure. The RSD Program is part of the Information Infrastructure Technology and Applications (IITA) component of the High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC) initiative. URL: http://rsd.gsfc.nasa.gov/rsd/ National Library of Canada. Electronic Publications Pilot Project. "The National Library of Canada (NLC) has initiated the Electronic Publications Pilot Project (EPPP) to identify and to understand issues that libraries will encounter in handling electronic publications and online collections. The Project began in June 1994 and is expected to produce a final report in June 1995. " URL: http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/e-coll-e/index-e.htm Research Libraries Group. Electronic Publications Pilot Project. "RLG and its members will use their experience and collaborative infrastructure in digital collection projects -- coordinating selection and digitization; resolving intellectual control and access issues; establishing digital archives and protocols for their lasting operation -- and bridging the gap between bibliographic citations and digitized information objects. " URL: http://www.rlg.org/strat/suptproj.html Arches -- Archival Server and Test Bed. URL: http://www.rlg.org/strat/projarch.html Digital Collections Project -- "Studies in Scarlet". URL: http://www.rlg.org/strat/projdcp.html New Access to Archival Collections -- The FAST Track. a URL: http://www.rlg.org/strat/projfast.html Stanford University. Digital Libraries Project. "The goal of the Stanford Digital Library project is to develop the enabling technologies for a single, integrated and "universal" library, composed from the large numbers of emerging individual heterogeneous repositories. Our definition of a constituent repository includes everything from personal information collections to the collections in conventional libraries and large data collections shared by scientists. Our technology will provide the "glue" that will make this worldwide collection usable as a unified entity, in a scaleable and economically feasible fashion." URL: http://www-diglib.stanford.edu/diglib/ University of California, Berkeley. Digital Library Project. "This project will produce a prototype digital library with a focus on environmental information. The library will collect diverse information about the environment to be used for the preparation and evaluation of environmental data, impact reports and related materials. The research prototype is intended for eventual full-scale deployment in the State of California's CERES production systems. To create the prototype, researchers will need to produce technologies which allow untrained users to contribute to and find relevant information in other world-wide digital library systems. Research areas include automated indexing, intelligent retrieval and search processes; database technology to support digital library applications;new approaches to document analysis; and, data compression and communication tools for remote browsing." URL: http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu University of California: Santa Barbara. Alexandria Digital Library. "Project Alexandria will develop a digital library providing easy access to large and diverse collections of maps, images and pictorial materials as well as a full range of new electronic library services. The project is centered at the University of California, Santa Barbara, with its major collections of maps and images and its strong research focus in the area of spatially-indexed information. It also involves the State University of New York at Buffalo (SUNY-Buffalo), the University of Maine and several industrial partners." URL: http://alexandria.sdc.ucsb.edu/ University of Illinois. Building the Interspace: Digital Library Infrastructure for a University Engineering Community. "This project is based on the new Grainger Engineering Library Information Center at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign and will be centered around journals and magazines in the engineering and science literature. The testbed will include a customized version of NCSA Mosaic (TM), software developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications under NSF and ARPA sponsorship to help users navigate the World Wide Web. This testbed will become a production facility of the University Library with thousands of documents and tens of thousands of users across the University of Illinois and other Big Ten universities. Research will encompass sociological evaluation of the testbed, technological development of semantic retrieval, and prototype design of future scalable information systems (the Interspace)." URL: http://www.grainger.uiuc.edu/dli/ University of Michigan. Internet Public Library. "The Internet Public Library Project seeks to challenge and redefine the roles and significance of libraries in an increasingly distributed and digital world. Libraries have always been places of learning and excitement, opening new worlds of information, enlightenment and entertainment to all who enter. Libraries and the people who work in them are committed to democracy and equality of access, the dignity of their patrons, and the freedom to express and investigate all points of view." URL: http://ipl.sils.umich.edu/ University of Michigan, et. al. JSTOR - Journal Storage Project. JSTOR is a project of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for development of a digital library in support of the arts and sciences. It will initially consist of about ten journal titles in the areas of economics and history and will initially contain approximately 750,000 journal page images. URL: http://www.jstor.org/ University of Michigan. Digital Library Project (UMDL). "This is a multi-group proposal from the University of Michigan for coordinated research and development to gain insight into the creation, operation, and use of advanced digital libraries. The participants are faculty, research staff and students from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the School of Information and Library Studies, the Department of Atmospheric, Ocean and Space Sciences, the University Libraries, the Computer-Aided Engineering Network, the Information Technology Division, Ann Arbor Public Schools and Library, the New York Public Library, Bellcore, McGraw-Hill, UMI, Elsevier, Encyclopedia Britannica, IBM, Apple, and Kodak. We also have access to significant public domain collections of scientific data and information. We are using the term "digital library" as the generic name for federated structures that provide humans both intellectual and physical access to the huge and growing world- wide networks of information encoded in multi-media digital formats." - from the Executive Summary URL: http://http2.sils.umich.edu/UMDL/HomePage.html University of Michigan Digital Library Prototype. URL: http://circe.engin.umich.edu/umdl-uia/ University of Pittsburgh. Electronic Text Project. "The University of Pittsburgh Electronic Text Project is a reseach and development effort investigating the technology and policy issues involved in producing, collecting, and serving richly marked-up scholarly texts over the University and wide-area network. The project was chartered in July 1994, and commenced in September 1994. " URL: http://www.library.pitt.edu/resources/etext/ University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Scholar's Workstation Project. "The Model Scholar s Workstation on the Electronic Frontier offers access to library resources and services at a site convenient to faculty, researchers and students. Funded in part by the U.S. Department of Education, the study will test the usefulness of an electronic branch library for faculty and students." URL: http://www.lib.utk.edu/%7erudolph/utkpubs/infoissues/scholars.html XEROX. Digital Library related work at Xerox. We at Xerox are searching for ways to enhance the productivity of document intensive activites in the context of group work and within a variety of enterprises. Our method is to bring together our core competence in the areas of new document types, interface research, collaborative systems, information access to build practical systems that can be tested in actual use. e library represents a social activity in each of our core areas, and exposes a set of document issues that other organizations have only begun to recognize. The research initiative on Digital Libraries represents a unique opportunity to apply some of the technologies we have developed in conjunction with university partners in a function that will dominate work-practice in the NII-enabled work-force. This package contains overviews, bibliographies, and a prospectus of digital-library related research that we might engage in at PARC in conjunction with one or more partners in this initiative. URL: http://www.parc.xerox.com/parc-go.html Yale University. Project Open Book. "Yale University Library Project Open Book is a research and development program that is exploring the feasibility and costs of large-scale conversion of preserved material from microfilm to digital imagery." URL: http://www.library.yale.edu/preservation/pobweb.htm ^ PROJECTS: ASIA-PACIFIC ^ PROJECTS: EUROPE British Library. CATaloguing and Retrieval of Information Over Networks Applications (CATRIONA). "CATRIONA is a 6 month feasibility study funded by the British Library Research And Development Division. The purpose behind the CATRIONA project is to investigate the technical, organisational and financial requirements for the development of applications programs and procedures to enable the cataloguing, classification, and retrieval of documents and other resources over networks, and to explore the feasibility of a library system supplier led collaborative project to develop such applications and procedures and integrate them with one or more existing library housekeeping systems and associated OPAC interfaces." URL: http://bubl.ac.uk/org/catriona/cat1rep.htm British Library. Initiatives for Access. URL: http://portico.bl.uk/access/overview.html "Initiatives for Access is a programme of 20 development projects which was inaugurated in July 1993. The projects are investigating hardware and software platforms for the digitisation and subsequent networking of a range of Library materials. In addition to enhancing Library services and facilitating access, the programme will establish standards for the storage, indexing, retrieval and transmission of data, and will examine the copyright issues involved with digitisation of material and its provision over networks." Projects include: The Patent Express Jukebox The Network OPAC Electronic Beowulf Digitisation of Microfilm The Electronic Photo Viewing System Treasures Digitisation Interactive Multimedia Publications Copyright, Indexing and Standards European Union. Telematics for Libraries Programme. URL: http://www.echo.lu/libraries/en/libraries.html There are many significant digital library-related research efforts currently underway in Europe. A list of over 70 projects with WWW-accessible information can be found at: URL: http://www2.echo.lu/libraries/en/lib-link.html European Union. I3 - intelligent - information - interfaces. ESPRIT programme initiative on future interfaces to information. URL: http://www.cordis.lu/esprit/src/iii.htm Joint Information Systems Committee. Follett Implementation Group on Information Technology (FIGIT). (United Kingdom). Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib). The Higher Education Funding Bodies in the UK have invited proposals for projects which would "transform the use and storage of knowledge in higher education institutions". £315 million was allocated to the "Electronic Libraries Programme", managed by the Joint Information Systems Committee on behalf of the funding bodies. Currently, about 60 projects are being funded, though this number changes as some projects are completed while new ones are funded. URL: http://ukoln.bath.ac.uk/elib/intro.html Lancaster University. ARIADNE Collaborative Database Browsing Project. URL: http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/research/aai-aied/information/ariadne/ ARIADNE Links Index: locally used hotlist of digital libraries related resources. URL: http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/research/aai-aied/information/ariadne/links.html Ministère délégué à la poste, aux télecommunications et à l'espace. (France). Les technologies de l'information. URL: http://ai.inria.fr/AI/acces.html Annuaire de l'Administration française en version en-ligne: ce projet a pour objectif d'améliorer le service rendu à l'usager, notamment au niveau de la transmission des données, de l'intégration d'images et de graphismes et de l'ergonomie de la recherche. URL: http://ai.inria.fr/AI/AI-projects/M-0397-annuaire.html AQUARELLE: ce projet vise à développer et à déployer un système multimédia distribué offrant l'accès à des informations décrivant le patrimoine culturel des différents pays participants. URL: http://aqua.inria.fr/ Centre de Solutions Musicales: l'ambition de ce projet est, en particulier, de promouvoir les qualités et spécificités du savoir-faire musical européen ainsi que le très riche patrimoine musical européen. URL: http://ai.inria.fr/AI/AI-projects/M-0379-imc.html Echanges de l'Aire urbaine: Réseau des Bibliothèques et des Centres Documentaires: projet très intéressant qui traite de l'interconnection des bibliothèques universitaires, municipales et des centres de documentation (dont la présentation Web laisse malheureusement à désirer). URL: http://ai.inria.fr/AI/descriptions/D-0347-aire2000-biblio.html ICONOS, inventaire de fonds photographique en France: cette banque de données recense et décrit les fonds de photographies consultables en France. L'objectif de ce projet est d'en élargir la consultation. URL: http://ai.inria.fr/AI/AI-projects/M-0392-iconos.html Littérature grise administrative: ce projet vise à partir d'une base bibliographique à développer un système d'information intégré, permettant la navigation dans les rapports et la fourniture des textes complets par télédéchargement de fichiers ou commande en-ligne. URL: http://ai.inria.fr/AI/AI-projects/M-0381-grise.html LUMIERE: projet de numérisation et d'accès multimédia aux fonds documentaires de la Ville de Besançon et de l'Université de Franche-Comté. URL: http://ai.inria.fr/AI/AI-projects/M-0120-lumiere.html Service Public d'Information sur le Patrimoine Culturel: ce projet a pour objet de généraliser l'accès au patrimoine culturel français par la création progressive de musées, bibliothèques, médiathèques multimédia. URL: http://ai.inria.fr/AI/AI-projects/M-1356-culturel.html

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