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 IEEE Digital Library Technical Committee
Current digital libraries may be run exclusively on a single computer, on several computers connected on a LAN, or on a large number of computers spread out over a wide area network.
In digital libraries, a large amount of data spread through a number of resources necessitates intuitive interfaces for users to query and retrieve information.
Digital library collections that are too large to store entirely on a disk use hierarchical storage mechanisms.
http://cimic3.rutgers.edu/ieee_dltf.html   (1917 words)

  
 Digital library: Just the facts...
Unlike a traditional library, however, the collection of a digital library is, as you would expect, digital, and is usually served over the World Wide Web (Computer network consisting of a collection of internet sites that offer text and graphics and sound and animation resources through the hypertext transfer protocol).
Environment- Digital libraries cannot reproduce the environment of a traditional library.
Some digital libraries, such as Project Gutenberg, work to digitize out-of-copyright works and make them freely available to the public.
http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/d/di/digital_library.htm   (580 words)

  
 national synchronization
Research into digital libraries is research into network information systems, concentrating on how to develop the necessary infrastructure to effectively mass-manipulate the information on the Net..
Summaries of the six DLI projects from the May 1996, Special Issue on Digital Libraries in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, IEEE Computer Magazine.
Digital Library conference information, publications, related projects and resources to the DLI, Digital Library Related Information and Resources.
http://dli.grainger.uiuc.edu/national.htm   (186 words)

  
 Perseus Digital Library
Perseus 4.0 released -- a new implementation of the Perseus Digital Library.
Perseus is an evolving digital library, engineering interactions through time, space, and language.
Perseus 4.0, a new Java-based version of the Perseus Digital Library, is available for testing.
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu   (343 words)

  
 Greenstone Digital Library Software
Digital libraries are radically reforming how information is disseminated and acquired in UNESCO's partner communities and institutions in the fields of education, science and culture around the world, and particularly in developing countries.
Greenstone is produced by the New Zealand Digital Library Project at the University of Waikato, and developed and distributed in cooperation with UNESCO and the Human Info NGO.
The aim of the Greenstone software is to empower users, particularly in universities, libraries, and other public service institutions, to build their own digital libraries.
http://www.greenstone.org   (996 words)

  
 Margarita S. Studemeister Digital Library in International Conflict Management: Library and Links: Jeannette Rankin ...
The design pioneered by Arms is being implemented by the American Memory Project of the National Digital Library Program of the Library of Congress.
The Institute's development of a digital library reflects its commitment to innovative technologies, collaboration and resource-sharing to strengthen preventive diplomacy, the management of international relations and the resolution of conflicts worldwide.
In 2005, the Institute library created a third digital collection, The Oral Histories Project on Stability Operations, which collects the full text of interviews with individuals involved in stability operations, to draw lessons learned and address the challenges of post-conflict intervention.
http://www.usip.org/library/diglib.html   (532 words)

  
 UC Berkeley Digital Library Project
The UC Berkeley Digital Library Project is part of the Digital Libraries Initiative, sponsored by the National Science Foundation and many others.
http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu   (32 words)

  
 Library of Congress National Digital Library Program
A digital library is more than a database, and the future National Digital Library will be much more than a universal union catalog.
From the user's point of view, the digital library has the potential, in ways not yet realized and not possible with traditional library resources, to be an extension to every desktop, classroom, and personal library.
The digital library must be usable in equivalent ways.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/dli2/html/lcndlp.html   (1061 words)

  
 Cornell Library Digital Collections
Digital Himalaya is a pilot project based in Cornell's Department of Anthropology to develop digital collection, storage, and distribution strategies for multimedia anthropological information from the Himalayan region.
DSpace is a digital repository created to capture, distribute and preserve the intellectual output of a University.
The MOA project is a multi-institutional initiative to create and make accessible over the Internet a distributed digital library of important materials on the history of the United States.
http://moa.cit.cornell.edu   (1689 words)

  
 D-Lib - Ready Reference
Digital Library Related Information and Resources: Includes pointers to resources in the areas of human computer interaction (HCI) and computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW) as well as the topics commonly found in digital library bibliographies.
Among the rich resources of the Library are pages devoted to cataloging, copyright, the National Digital Library program, and Z39.50.
The Archive is sponsored by the Library of Congress and supported by the Getty Grant Program, the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the University of Virginia, Sun Microsystems, and Inso Corporation.
http://www.dlib.org/reference.html   (1759 words)

  
 COPYRIGHT IN THE LIBRARY - THE DIGITAL LIBRARY
Nevertheless, the only effective way to derive answers to questions about digital libraries is to start down the path towards creating them.
As described above the DMCA does not authorize libraries to distribute digitized unpublished works or digitized out-of-print published works that are lost, stolen, deteriorating or damaged.
The publishing and entertainment industries favor the proposition that the distribution right libraries enjoy for print works should not exist for electronic works because electronic distribution requires that a copy be made.
http://www.utsystem.edu/OGC/IntellectualProperty/l-diglib.htm   (895 words)

  
 Digital Research Library -- University of Pittsburgh
The Digital Research Library (DRL) of the University of Pittsburgh's University Library System (ULS) supports the teaching and research mission of the university and serves users through the creation and maintenance of Web-accessible digital research collections.
The DRL also serves as a knowledge resource within the ULS for digital library issues and developments.
From its inception, the DRL focused on creating text-based collections whose digitization and accessibility on the Web would aid the research of scholars, historians, faculty, and students.
http://digital.library.pitt.edu   (140 words)

  
 Markets & Industries: Worldwide Education & Research: Whitepapers
The Digital Library Tool Kit was sponsored by Sun Microsystems Computer Company in the hopes of addressing 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.
As one of the leading technology providers to the Education and Library Communities, Sun discerned the need for a comprehensive, state-of-the-art document that could give some guidance in the nascent field of Digital Libraries.
Whether this is a first time computerization effort or an extension of an existing library s services, there are questions to be answered, decisions to be made, and work to be done.
http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/edu/whitepapers/digitaltoolkit.html   (450 words)

  
 New Zealand Digital Library
The New Zealand Digital Library project is a research programme at The University of Waikato whose aim is to develop the underlying technology for digital libraries and make it available publicly so that others can use it to create their own collections.
The Greenstone Digital Library software provides a new way of organizing information and making it available over the Internet or on CD-ROM.
The carved piece used in the Greenstone Digital Library Software logo is a patu or fighting club, and is a family heirloom of one of our project members.
http://www.sadl.uleth.ca/nz/cgi-bin/library   (516 words)

  
 Wired News: This Library's 'Born Digital'
Terrizzi described the National Science Digital Library (NSDL) as "one library with many portals," where users will be able to search through many digital library collections -- in science, mathematics, engineering and technology education -- from a centralized site.
02:00 AM Jun. 18, 2001 PT The National Science Foundation is funding the construction of a National Science Digital Library, where users will be able to browse quality resources from libraries around the country.
"We see this library as being born digital," Terrizzi said.
http://www.wired.com/news/school/0,1383,44554,00.html   (520 words)

  
 Digital Library Research Projects at Grainger Engineering Library Information Center
The Library of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) is creating an OAI-PMH metadata harvesting service to aggregate metadata describing information resources held by participating CIC Libraries.
A Collections track project of the NSF National Science Digital Library.
Digital Library Research Projects at Grainger Engineering Library Information Center
http://dli.grainger.uiuc.edu   (263 words)

  
 Indiana University Digital Library Program Home Page
This collaboration capitalizes on the institutional capabilities of this university, focusing university resources on digital library services and projects that support the teaching and research of IU faculty, support the learning and research of IU students, and foster research about the digital library.
The Digital Library Program is a collaborative effort of the
School of Library and Information Science and the
http://www.dlib.indiana.edu   (111 words)

  
 IntraText Digital Library
This library is based on the Èulogos IntraText Dlib: a global solution for a HLT-based Digital Library: workflow, text-to-XML, scholarly-level accuracy, accessibility, usability, publishing on several formats, catalogue and archiving.
Full-text Digital Library committed to accuracy, accessibility and usability, offering texts and corpora as lexical hypertexts
Powered by Èulogos IntraText dLib: HLT-based Digital Library System
http://www.intratext.com   (244 words)

  
 The eGranary Digital Library
The eGranary Digital Library provides millions of digital educational resources to institutions lacking adequate Internet access.
How we're making the eGranary Digital Library more user-friendly and updatable.
See how you or your organization could work with the WiderNet project to improve the quality of the eGranary Digital Library and facilitate its widespread distribution to universities, schools, clinics, and libraries in the developing world
http://www.widernet.org/digitalLibrary   (286 words)

  
 Ethnomathematics Digital Library (EDL)
The Ethnomathematics Digital Library is a component of the National Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Education Digital Library (NSDL), funded by the National Science Foundation.
To use more specific information or Boolean logic, select Advanced Search.
http://www.ethnomath.org   (107 words)

  
 Ed/ITLib DL → Home
The EdITLib Digital Library is your source for peer-reviewed and published articles and papers on the latest research, developments, and applications related to all aspects of Educational Technology and E-Learning.
EdITLib Digital Library for Information Technology and Education
Contact us about submitting journals to the digital library
http://www.editlib.org   (143 words)

  
 California Digital Library
Established in 1997 as a UC library, the CDL has become one of the largest digital libraries in the world.
Harnessing technology and innovation, and leveraging the intellectual and cultural resources of the University of California, the California Digital Library supports the assembly and creative use of the world's scholarship and knowledge for the UC libraries and the communities they serve.
Research to improve services, integrate collections, and advance digital library technologies.
http://www.cdlib.org   (171 words)

  
 Persian Digital Library
Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE, providing information and support to digital library developers.
At its final phase, it is expected to be a Persian (Farsi) digital library consisting of everything from literature and poems to legal texts and articles.
Feb 2004: Now Experimental Persian Digital Library is back and going to be prepared to move here.
http://digilib.sharif.ac.ir   (208 words)

  
 Nalanda Digital Library - National Institute of Technology, Calicut, India - Nalanda Digital Library Home Page
alanda is the result of the ongoing Digital Library Initiative at NITC Library.Nalanda Project aims at a full-fledged Digital Library at NITC to cater to the increasing demand for information resources from the Campus User Community as well as from Remote Users from rest of the Country; particularly from the Southern States of India.
Nalanda Digital Library is at present in the evolving stage and consequently this site will be updated frequently.
Nalanda Digital Library - National Institute of Technology, Calicut, India - Nalanda Digital Library Home Page
http://www.nalanda.nitc.ac.in   (177 words)

  
 NSO's Digital Library
For the more serious user who is not familiar with the data, and who wishes to browse the contents of the library, we suggest a visit to the Menu Query Tool.
Today 05/27/05 the Digital library database will be down for upgrade
Follow the links to access the data, or for more detailed information about the data and the library.
http://diglib.nso.edu   (264 words)

  
 Digital Library Projects at the University of Pennsylvania
Digital Library Projects at the University of Pennsylvania
Here are some of the digital collections developed locally at the Penn Library, with information about each collection.
Look here for information on the technology and practices underlying our digital library efforts.
http://digital.library.upenn.edu   (269 words)

  
 Peter Scott's Library Blog
HarperCollins Publishers has announced they will create a digital warehouse for all of its content and will issue a Request for Proposal this month as part of an effort to develop the necessary technical infrastructure to broadly exploit its content digitally.
Titled Cultural Programming for Libraries: Linking Libraries, Communities and Culture, the preconference will focus on preparing library staff to conduct excellent humanities programs for the public, and will take place March 21-22, in Boston, MA [link]
Preliminary Program - Computers in Libraries 2006: Managing Digital: Innovations, Initiatives & Insights - March 22-24, 2006 - Washington DC [link]
http://blog.xrefer.com   (1181 words)

  
 The Stanford Digital Libraries Technologies Project
The Stanford Digital Library Technologies Project, which ended in 2004 was one participant in the DLI2, Digital Library Initiative Phase II.
The goal of this Project was to design and implement the infrastructure and services needed for collaboratively creating, disseminating, sharing and managing information in a digital library context.
The projects link above contains descriptions of the infrastructure and services created in both DLI1 and DLI2.
http://dbpubs.stanford.edu:8091   (87 words)

  
 Alexandria Digital Library Project
ADL includes the operational library, with various nodes and collections, and the research program through which digital library architectures, gazetteer applications, educational applications, and software components are modeled, prototyped, and evaluated.
The Alexandria Digital Library (ADL) is a distributed digital library with collections of georeferenced materials.
ADL provides HTML clients to access its collections and gazetteer, and provides specific information management tools, such as the Feature Type Thesaurus for classing types of geographic features, as well as downloadable software code.
http://www.alexandria.ucsb.edu   (91 words)

  
 Welcome to the Celtic Digital Library
Welcome to the Celt Digital, a source for Celtic Information on the World Wide Web.
http://celtdigital.org   (24 words)

  
 IEEE Computer Society Digital Library
Now you may search across both digital library collections from IEEE Computer Society and link directly to either publisher& content.
Sign Up for Computer Society Digital Library monthly e-newsletter updates.
Members subscribe to the IEEE Computer Society Digital Library
http://www.computer.org/publications/dlib   (146 words)

  
 Intellectual Property Digital Library
The Intellectual Property Digital Library Web site provides access to intellectual property data collections hosted by the World Intellectual Property Organization.
Home > News and Information Resources > Intellectual Property Digital Library
http://www.wipo.int/ipdl/en   (149 words)

  
 Home - UMass Amherst Libraries
Members of the campus community enjoy online access to the library's digital resources from personal computers anywhere, anytime.
With over 5.8 million items and thousands of electronic resources, the UMass Amherst library system is the largest public academic research library in New England.
Library Review of Print Journals Costing $1,000 or More.
http://www.library.umass.edu   (186 words)

  
 NCSA Astronomy Digital Image Library
Once images are located in the Library, users may download them to their local machines in FITS format for further analysis.
The Library provides a number of benefits not only to those looking for images, but also to those who add images to the Library's growing collection.
The purpose of the Astronomy Digital Image Library (ADIL) is to collect astronomical, research-quality images and make them available to the astronomical community and the general public.
http://imagelib.ncsa.uiuc.edu/imagelib.html   (462 words)

  
 ibiblio - A Few People We Admire
Bibliography, Dictionaries, General Encyclopedic Works, General Reference, Journalism, Journals, Library Science
http://www.ibiblio.org   (876 words)

  
 Informedia Digital Video Library
Research efforts underway apply Informedia technology to the domains of education, health care, defense intelligence and the coordination and understanding of human activity.
Check out the 2005 Digital Library Colloquia Schedule!
Informedia also has international digital library collaborations in Europe and Asia that have produced multilingual, multi-cultural and cross-lingual versions.
http://www.informedia.cs.cmu.edu   (181 words)

  
 Digital Collections (DL SunSITE)
Provides access to a growing collection of digitized historical documents, images and materials, along with past and current analysis on the history of the UC.
The complete collection of this annotated monthly bibliography of selected articles, books, and electronic documents on information technology.
Letters, manuscripts and photographs from the Bancroft Library as well as out-of-print publications, electronic texts of some of London's writings, and original essays and research aids.
http://sunsite3.berkeley.edu/Collections   (447 words)

  
 UNCTAD.ORG >> Digital Library
The digital library of UNCTAD’s publications enables interested readers to access references to the knowledge generated by the organization through its intergovernmental and expert meetings, as well as its analyses and research.
Digital library of UNCTAD publications, CD-ROMs and On-line data sources
UNCTAD’s Reference Service would be ready to assist readers in identifying printed or electronic publications, including CD-ROMs and On-line databases that might be of interest to readers.
http://www.unctad.org/Templates/Page.asp?intItemID=1397&lang=1   (1128 words)

  
 SIL Digital Library Featured Selection
Note: You may notice that each edition in our Digital Library has a unique identity.
About Us ~ Exhibitions and Programs ~ Digital Library ~ Special Collections ~ Libraries ~
Many of these data are held by the project partners, in their libraries, attached to specimens in their collections, in their card indices or in databases.
http://www.sil.si.edu/DigitalCollections   (469 words)

  
 Sorted by Subject
New Jersey::Princeton University Library Digital Map and Geospatial Information Center
Earth::The Digital Chart of the World (DCW) & Data Quality Project
Japan::University of Tsukuba Library - Digital Collections -- Rare Books
http://www.alexandria.ucsb.edu/other-sites/subj_page.html   (1802 words)

  
 NSDL - The National Science Digital Library
NSDL is the Nation's FREE online library for education and research in
New Collection of Digital Resources: Women and Information Technology
Coupled with an 18.5% drop in women holding tech jobs during the last eight years there is a clear need to interest young women in technology to create a diverse workforce for the future.
http://nsdl.org   (79 words)

  
 Digital Library Federation
The DLF operates under the administration umbrella of the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR).
Geneva Henry named DLF Distinguished Fellow to develop Services Framework.
Acquiring Copyright Permission to Digitize and Provide Open Access to Books, by Denise Troll Covey
http://www.diglib.org/dlfhomepage.htm   (50 words)

  
 Home Page for THE CLEVELAND DIGITAL LIBRARY
The Cleveland Digital Library is indexed in SCHOLAR
This major rewrite of the Cleveland Digital Library facet pages was done by Heather Maltonic, as a practicum project of the Kent State University School of Library and Information Science, during the Fall Semester, 1999.
A digital collection of texts, maps, and images, as well as access tools for digital and non-digital works, all concerning the history of greater Cleveland and the Western Reserve region of northeastern Ohio.
http://web.ulib.csuohio.edu/SpecColl/cdl   (262 words)

  
 NYPL, Digital Library
This site is now available from computers in all NYPL buildings and starting March 3, 2005, is publicly available from outside of the library.
Digital Home > Digital Collections > NYPL Digital Gallery
Policy on Public Use of the Internet
http://www.nypl.org/digital/digitalgallery.htm   (118 words)

  
 The Digital South Asia Library
The Digital South Asia Library is a project of the Center for Research Libraries
Scholarly reference books and a link to full text dictionaries at Digital Dictionaries of South Asia (DDSA).
What's new on the Digital South Asia Library
http://dsal.uchicago.edu   (121 words)

  
 Libweb - Library WWW Servers
Nordic Libraries: Information Servers, maintained by Traugott Koch and Jörgen Eriksson of Lund University.
UK Higher Education and Research Libraries, maintained by Ian Tilsed of the University of Exeter.
Keyword Search for location, library type, name or other information.
http://lists.webjunction.org/libweb   (160 words)

  
 Digital Librarian: a librarian's choice of the best of the Web
May not be copied or mirrored without written permission.
it generates a small commission that pays part of the operating costs for Digital Librarian.
Digital Librarian: A Librarian's Choice of the Best of the Web.
http://www.digital-librarian.com   (79 words)

  
 OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Digital and Preservation Services Outreach Center
OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Digital and Preservation Services Outreach Center
Subscribe to our listserv and receive the Digitization and Preservation Dispatch: an electronic newsletter with recent news and information from the digitization and preservation communities.
Digital Libraries - Digitization Pathfinders - Good Practices - NINCH Guide - Newspaper Digitization - Workshops and Learning
http://digitalcooperative.oclc.org   (141 words)

  
 Pediatrics Pediatric Radiology - Virtual Hospital: A digital library of health information
Radiology - Virtual Hospital: A digital library of health information
New content was added to this library on May 26, 2005--see What's New.
http://www.vh.org   (72 words)

  
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