Digital library programmes and D Guide - Resources and Review

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.
 
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.
 
Vast distributed subject catalogue of resources on the World Wide Web.
 
Major research programme 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.
 
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.
 
Article discussing the potential for a US national digital library for science, mathematics, engineering, and technology education.
 
A library service offering browsing and searching facilities online. Collections include indexes, databases, electronic journals and texts, archival finding aids, and digitised photographs and images. Guides and tutorials on how to search the library effectively are included.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
The IPL is a public library of and for the Internet community. It aims to teach about the issues involved in the translation of the library perspective into a networked environment, and to provide services and information which enhance the value of the Internet to its users.
 
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.
 
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.
 
Based at Strathclyde University, the CDLR conducts research on digital library issues ranging from information policy and information retrieval to document storage technologies and standards. Includes material on individual projects with links to their specific Web resources, along with details of presentations and reports delivered since the Centre's creation in 1999.
 
Searchable collection of digitisation projects worldwide with details of host country and institution, URL, type and language of material, and a brief description for each entry. The option to display all or new records is given.
 
A collection of links to organisations which fund, or provide information about funding for, digital library projects and services in the UK academic community. Includes circular, open
call, and Scottish-specific funders, as well as information about European funding.
 
Collection of digitised Medieval and Early Renaissance manuscripts and documents from the Bancroft Library (UC Berkeley) and the Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Columbia University. The database enables searching by shelfmark, country, author and title, and manuscripts are displayed as thumbnail images and in small, medium and large sizes.
 
A project aiming to improve graduate education by allowing students to produce electronic documents, to increase the availability of student research for scholars and to preserve it electronically, and to lower the cost of submitting and handling theses and dissertations.
 
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.
 
Large collection of student theses and dissertations, with titles and abstracts searchable and browsable by author and department, and full text available in PDF. Some access restrictions, but numerous items freely available.
 
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.
 
Introduces and describes the US Digital Libraries Initiative. Includes links to the projects at participating institutions, lists of contacts and publications.
 
Comprehensive catalogue of worldwide Internet resources, browsable and searchable.
 
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