025.0 Agora
Aims to provide an open, standards based platform for distributed,
mixed-media information management as well as a framework for
end-user-oriented services and an infrastructure which can be scaled up
to provide the backbone for national access to distributed collections.
The outcome of the project work will be a layer of software or
‘middleware’ which hides the underlying differences between resources
allowing for both seamless access as well as the transparent addition of
new services and resources.
025.0 Alexandria Digital
Library Project
The goal of this project is to develop a globally distributed
geo-referenced digital library.
025.0 BUILDER: Birmingham University Integrated Library Development and Electronic
Resource
Project to develop a working model of the hybrid library within both
a teaching and research context, seamlessly integrating access to a wide
range of printed and electronic information sources, local and remote,
using a Web-based interface. The model will focus on a series of six
inter-related modules (user registration and induction; ordering and
delivery of materials; metadata index for printed and electronic
sources; teaching and learning; publication and digitisation and access
gateways) which will be developed for and applied across six subject
areas: history and archaeology, business, education, physics, sports
science and medicine.
025.0 CAIRNS: Co-operative
Academic Information Retrieval Network for Scotland
Project aiming to integrate 25 Z39.50 compliant catalogues or
information services of CAIRNS sites across Scotland into a functional
and user-adaptive test-bed service.
025.04 Cataloguing the
Internet: CATRIONA Feasibility Study
Full text of a report to the British Library Research and
Development Department from the CATRIONA 1 project, based at Strathclyde
University Library. The study concludes that the idea of a distributed
catalogue of Internet resources integrated with standard Z39.50 library
system OPAC interfaces (and hence, with retrieval of information on hard
copy resources) is already a practical proposition at its most basic
level.
025.0 Centre for Political
Song
Aims to provide a continually developing collection of politically
aware and representative materials, which span all areas of political
persuasion and cultural representation. Location, preservation,
promotion, and dissemination of ephemera in printed, recorded, visual,
and in the oral traditions, is the key aim of the Centre, for the
education of popular political expression worldwide.
025.0 Collections
Wales
RSLP-funded research project aiming to improve resource discovery
and sharing, and facilitate access to research materials in and about
Wales. Project outcomes will include a bilingual online inventory of
research collections in Wales, a gateway providing researchers with
access to other relevant physical and digital collections, Web materials
and OPACs held elsewhere in the UK and overseas, and a working model of
the RSLP/UKOLN Collection Level Schema. Available in Welsh and English.
025.0 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.
025.0 DigiCULT
Study
Provides details of an EU funded study which aims to help Europe’s
libraries, archives, and museums to face challenges posed by
technological developments within the digital age. Outlines the three
main phases of the project, defined as fact finding, expert opinion, and
analysis, interpretation and recommendation, along with progress to
date.
025.0 Digital
Libraries Initiative
Introduces and describes the US Digital Libraries Initiative.
Includes links to the projects at participating institutions, lists of
contacts and publications.
025 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.
025.5 Digital Library
Projects
A selection of Columbia University digital projects and initiatives.
025.0 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.
025.0 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.
025.0 ELITE
Project
The Electronic Library, IT and staff Education Project was
established to enhance service delivery for distance learners. On
completion, ELITE has now resulted in an improved electronic library
service which offers interactive Web pages, electronic delivery of
documents, email communications, net and video conferencing, MOOs, and
chat facilities for students affiliated with the University of
Leicester.
025.0 Glasgow Digital
Library
A distributed digital library based in Glasgow which aims to produce
a coherent digital learning and information environment for Glasgow’s
citizens, through the development and implementation of a common
collection development policy and an agreed technical and inter-working
infrastructure.
025.0 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.
025.0 HEADLINE: Hybrid Electronic
Access and Delivery in the Library Networked Environment
Aims to define development of the end-user library environment,
going beyond resource discovery to resource access, establish a working
model for consistent access for library materials regardless of physical
form and implement the model in a real-life environment.
025.0 HYLIFE: Hybrid Library of the
Future
Concerned with the integrated delivery of print and electronic
(hybrid) services likely to be required by higher education libraries in
the foreseeable future. Addresses the integration of the delivery of
large-scale, print and electronic services behind an electronic
interface. The focus is on users and organisational, social and
educational issues rather than technology.
025.0 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.
025.0 Innovative
Internet Applications in Libraries
Links to projects, libraries and organisations making innovative use
of the Internet in the library field. Categories include cataloguing,
collection management, library tours and public relations.
025.0 M25 Link
Project
Aims to establish a pilot virtual clump to provide single search
access to the library catalogues of six members of the M25 Consortium of
Higher Education Libraries. The project will consist of a seamless
search tool to the library OPACs of the six pilot partners and will
provide monograph and serial information using the Z39.50 protocol.
025.0 MALIBU:
Managing the Hybrid Library for the Benefit of Users
Project to develop and implement prototype hybrid libraries in each
of the three major partner institutions and in so doing derive
institutional models, which will be tested first in a number of test-bed
institutions before being distributed throughout the community. The
project will focus on the Humanities disciplines and seeks to provide
innovative and cost-effective ways to meet the ever-increasing
information requirements of staff and students through cooperative
resource sharing.
025.0 National
Digital Library Competition: Lessons Learned
A summary of various lessons learned about digitisation projects,
extracted, summarised, and paraphrased from reports submitted by award
winners. Topics include formats and specifications for digital
reproduction, production workflow, project management, and intellectual
access.
025.0 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.
070.5 Online Books
at Columbia: Measurement and Early Results on Use, Satisfaction, and
Effect
The Columbia Online Books Evaluation Project is designed to learn
about the scholarly community’s enthusiasm for the online format. The
paper focuses on user response and reports on the methodology for
measuring adoption of online books by the Columbia community, current
findings on relevant environmental factors, including access to online
resources, current findings on use of online books and other online
resources and current findings on attitudes toward online books.
025.0 RIDING Project: Z39.50
Gateway to Yorkshire Libraries
Aims to support large scale resource discovery across the Yorkshire
and Humberside region by using the Z39.50 protocol to create a
distributed union catalogue.
025.0 SAPIENS: Scottish
Academic Periodicals: Implementing an Effective Networked
Service
Research project charged with developing a Scotland wide electronic
journal service. The methodology involves targeting smaller Scottish
publishers, not yet online, and assisting them by providing server
space, technical support, a high-profile gateway and various value-added
services. Funded by SHEFC and SCURL.
025.0 SIMILE: Semantic
Interoperability of Metadata and Information in unLike
Environments
Research project aiming to enhance interoperability among digital
assets, schemas, metadata, and services. A key challenge is that the
collections that must interoperate are often distributed across
individual, community, and institutional stores.
025.0 Standards
in the CHIC-Pilot Distributed Indexing Architecture
Paper describing a project to investigate the feasibility of setting
up a large-scale distributed indexing service for searching Web-based
research information, and of providing a unified interface for users
through the use of different standards and protocols.
025.0 University of Michigan
Digital Library Project
Project aiming to combine traditional notions of libraries with
contemporary technological capabilities. Libraries have traditionally
stressed service, organisation, and centralisation. The Web has embodied
flexibility, rapid evolution, and decentralization. Digital libraries
somehow need to bring these together.
