Digital Libraries and Open Access Resources

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The California Digital Library
The California Digital Library is a Co-Library of the Campuses of the University of California. It also contains the Online Archives of California.  
CIC (Committee on Institutional Cooperation) Virtual Electronic Library
[Champagne, Ill.] The CIC Center for Library Initiatives was established in 1994 to lead and direct resource sharing and collaboration among the research libraries of the CIC member universities. The goal of this program is to establish a cohesive consortial organization guided by a vision of the information resources in the CIC as a seamless whole, whether those resources are developed or owned individually or collectively. The cornerstone of these efforts is the CIC Virtual Electronic Library Project, which links the online catalogs and supports patron-initiated borrowing.
 
Early Canadiana Online
"Early Canadiana Online (ECO) is a collaborative research project to provide Web access to a digital library of primary sources in Canadian history from the first European contact to the late 19th century. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of literature, women's history, travel and exploration, native studies and the history of French Canada."

Florida Center for Library Automation
" Florida Center for Library Automation (FCLA) provides automation services that assist the university libraries of the State University System (SUS) of Florida in meeting their teaching and research objectives for students and aculty. To achieve this mission, FCLA provides computer services that assist the SUS libraries in their daily operations and record keeping as well as providing students and faculty with electronic access to scholarly materials."

Five College Archives Digital Access Project
"This web site provides access to digitized versions of archival records and manuscript collections relating primarily to women's history -- particularly women's education at the Five Colleges. In doing so, this cooperative project aims to support the educational and scholarly research of students and scholars in the Five College community and world-wide."

Galileo: Georgia Library Learning Online
" GALILEO stands for GeorgiA LIbrary LEarning Online, an initiative of the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia. A World Wide Web-based virtual library, GALILEO provides access to multiple information resources, including secured access to licensed products. Participating institutions may access over 100 databases indexing thousands of periodicals and scholarly journals. Over 2000 journal titles are provided in full-text. Other resources include encyclopedias, business directories, and government publications. The community of more than 2000 GALILEO institutions includes the University System of Georgia, K-12 schools, public libraries, the adult technical institutes and colleges, and a group of private academic colleges and universities. At this time, only educational institutions are eligible to participate in GALILEO. "

ILLINOIS DIGITAL ACADEMIC LIBRARY
"The goal of the Illinois Digital Academic Library initiative is to provide a digital library of full text and full image digitized resources for the students, faculty and staff of Illinois institutions of higher education. This particular initiative would be an integral part of a broader information infrastructure that has been developed by a number of sectors of the Illinois library community, including the Illinois State Library, the Illinois regional library systems, and the Illinois Library Computer Systems Organization (ILCSO). "

Louisiana Library Network
"The Louisiana Library Network Office (LLN) is responsible for the implementation and enrichment of Louisiana's academic library network (LOUIS) and the Louisiana Library Network (LLN). Twenty-one Louisiana academic libraries have been automated on the LSU mainframe and all Louisiana academic and public libraries have access to a repository of index and abstract database products loaded on the LSU IBM RS/6000 RISC cluster, as well as access to full-text journal articles which are accessed through the Internet. "

The Michigan Electronic Library
"The digital library that puts 20,000 Internet resources at your fingertips in an easy- to-use organization ...
The digital library that evaluates each and every site before you spend any time with it ...
The digital library that links Michigan residents to over 600 full-text periodicals and 1200 journals ..."

Minitex: Library Information Network (Minnesota)
"The MINITEX Library Information Network (MINITEX) is a publicly-supported network of academic, public, state agency, and special libraries working cooperatively to improve library service for their users. The MINITEX program is funded by the Minnesota Legislature through the Minnesota Higher Education Services Office (MHESO)."

Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
"An initiative to improve graduate education, increase sharing of knowledge, help universities build their information infrastructure, and extend the value of digital libraries "

NC Live: Your Library Link to the World (North Carolina)
"With NC LIVE, North Carolina libraries are sharing a vision of each library in the state serving as a gateway to a rich array of electronic information available to all the people of the state. NC LIVE currently offers online access to complete articles from over 4,000 newspapers, journals, and magazines; two encyclopedias; and indexing for over 10,000 periodical titles"

OhioLINK: Ohio Library and Information Network
"The Ohio Library and Information Network, OhioLINK, is a consortium of Ohio's college and university libraries and the State Library of Ohio. Serving more than 500,000 students, faculty, and staff at 74 institutions, OhioLINK offers access to more than 24 million library items statewide. OhioLINK also provides access to 67 research databases, including a variety of full-text resources."

UT System Digital Library
"The mission of the UT System Digital Library is to support the learning and research needs of UT System students and faculty, with special emphasis on serving students taking courses from The University of Texas at a distance. "

Viva: The Virtual Library of Virginia ("Collections" page)
"VIVA consists of the libraries of the 39 state-assisted colleges and universities (at 52 campuses) within the Commonwealth of Virginia, including: the 6 doctoral institutions, the 9 4-year comprehensive colleges and universities and the 24 community and 2-year branch colleges (at 37 campuses)."

Washington State Cooperative Library Project
"...a cooperative library project to enable easy sharing of library resources among ... six institutions"

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Individual Libraries or Collections

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Alex Catalog of Electronic Texts
"The Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts is collection of digital documents. The scope of documents in the collection include items from American literature, English literature, and Western philosophy. "

American Memory
Digital Collections of the Library of Congress.

Amherst College Special Collections and Archives
The exhibitions page includes good examples of online exhibits.

arXiv.org e-Print archive
"ArXiv is an e-print service in the fields of physics, mathematics, non-linear science, computer science, and quantitative biology. The contents of arXiv conform to Cornell University academic standards. arXiv is owned, operated and funded by Cornell University, a private not-for-profit educational institution. ArXiv is also partially funded by the National Science Foundation."

California Heritage Collection
"The California Heritage Collection is an online archive of over 28,000 images illustrating California's history and culture from the collections of the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley. " The web pages also contain a collection of finding aids.

CogPrints
Cognitive Sciences Eprint Archives "CogPrints is modelled on and associated with the NSF- and DOE-supported Los Alamos Eprint Archive for Physics and Associated Disciplines: http://xxx.lanl.gov, which currently receives 25,000 new papers annually and has 35,000 users daily. "

Columbia University Digital Library Collections
"The resources listed on this page are a selection from Columbia's growing Digital Library Collections.

Example:

Images from Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts

Cornell Digital Library
"The Cornell University Digital Library consists of two and a half million digital images, representing over a third of a terabyte of information, that have been digitally archived from Cornell University's own collection. This sizeable collection was created over the past decade, and represents digital surrogates for valuable materials on the history of the United States, New York State and local history, mathematics classics, and core agricultural history. None of the material is covered by copyright protection."

Example: The African, Pre-Columbian and Oceanic Collection

Cornell University Johnson Museum of Art permanent collections.

Cyberstacks (Iowa State University)
"CyberStacks(sm) is a centralized, integrated, and unified collection of significant World Wide Web (WWW) and other Internet resources categorized using the Library of Congress classification scheme. Resources are organized under one or more relevant Library of Congress class numbers and an associated publication format and subject description. The majority of resources incorporated within its collection are monographic or serial works, files, databases or search services. All of the selected resources in CyberStacks(sm) are full-text, hypertext, or, hypermedia, and of a research or scholarly nature. "

EconWPA
Economics Working Papers Archives "This award winning service (provided by the Economics Department of Washington University ), is devoted to the free distribution of working papers in economics. There are 22 subject areas, along with a test posting area, a meetings area, an area for programs and an area for data. Other areas are added when demand dictates. "

Electronic Theses and Dissertations (Virginia Tech Digital Library and Archives)
The user interface page for 2119 electronic theses and dissertations, with a link to the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.

eScholarship Editions
Over 1,400 books published online in xml by the California Digital Library and the University of California Press.

[Florida State University] Special Colllections at Florida State University
Listing and preview of collections.

Frank M. Hohenberger Photograph Collection (Indiana University)
"The Hohenberger collection, dating from 1917-1960 and housed in the Lilly Library, consists primarily of photographs by Frank Michael Hohenberger, 1876-1963, Brown County photographer and newspaperman. The photograph collection totals 8300 prints and 9400 negatives."

George Washington University Archives
Archival Collections

Library of Congress "American Memory"
"Historical Collections for the National Digital Library. 44 Collections with over 1 Million Items Now Online."

Library of Congress Exhibitions
On-line exhibitions as well as a listing of current exhibitions in the Library.

Library of Digital Primary Sources
Indiana University Medieval and Renaissance Resources

Mount Holyoke College Exhibits and Collections
Archives and special projects.

MyLibrary@NCState
" This model, called MyLibrary, integrates principles of librarianship (collection, organziation, dissemination, and evaluation) with globably networked computing resources creating a dynamic, customer-driven front-end to any library's set of materials. The model supports a framework for libraries to provide enhanced access to local and remote sets of data, information, and knowledge."

Project Euclid [Cornell University]
"Project Euclid is a user-centered initiative to create an environment for the effective and affordable distribution of serial literature in mathematics and statistics. Project Euclid is designed to address the unique needs of independent and society journals through a collaborative partnership with scholarly publishers, professional societies, and academic libraries."

The Renssalaer Archive's Gallery
"Women at Renssalaer"

Smith College Archives
The College Archives documents the history of Smith College.

State University of New York at Stony Brook
Special Collections Department and University Archives

University at Illinois [Urbana-Champaign] UIUC Digital Library Testbed
"The NSF/DARPA/NASA Digital Libraries Initiative (DLI) project at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), 1994-1998, had the goal of developing widely usable Web technology to effectively search technical documents on the Internet. Our efforts were concentrated on building an experimental testbed with tens of thousands of full-text journal articles from physics, engineering, and computer science, and making these articles available over the World Wide Web, often before they were available in print...."

University of Virginia Library Electronic Centers
" The University Library has taken the lead by establishing content-oriented centers to which students and faculty and scholars from around the world can go via their computers. This web site gives a glimpse into the riches found in the electronic centers. "

Example: The Electronic Text Center

The WWW Virtual Library
[Indiana University] Library Resources: Directories

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Electronic Text Centers

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ARTFL: American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language
"ARTFL is a cooperative project of the Institut National de la Langue Française (INaLF) of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and the Divisions of the Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Chicago."

Brown Women Writers Project
"The Brown University Women Writers Project is a long-term research project devoted to early modern women's writing and electronic text encoding. Our goal is to bring texts by pre-Victorian women writers out of the archive and make them accessible to a wide audience of teachers, students, scholars, and the general reader. We support research on women's writing, text encoding, and the role of electronic texts in teaching and scholarship."

CETH: Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities
"The Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities is dedicated to helping people access and implement research projects using electronic texts."

Corvey Project

Emory Women Writers Resource Project
"The Emory Women Writers Resource Project is a collection of edited and unedited texts by women writing in English from the seventeeth century through the nineteenth century."

Library Electronic Text Resource Service/Indiana University
"Indiana University's Library Electronic Text Resource Service (LETRS) is a joint program of the Indiana University Bloomington Libraries and the University Computing Services. It serves as a focal point for members of the IU community interested in identifying, acquiring, and using electronic resources for humanities research and teaching. More specifically, it provides access to scholarly electronic texts and application tools, instruction in their use, and consultation at its facility in the Main Library."

Perseus Project
"The Perseus Project is an evolving digital library of resources for the study of the ancient world and beyond. Collaborators initially formed the project to construct a large, heterogeneous collection of materials, textual and visual, on the Archaic and Classical Greek world. Planning for Perseus began in 1985; the project was formally established in July, 1987. Since then, the Perseus Project has published two CD-ROMs and created the on-line Perseus Digital Library. Recent expansion into Latin texts and tools and Renaissance materials has served to add more coverage within Perseus and has prompted the project to explore new ways of presenting complex resources for electronic publication"

Renaissance Electronic Texts

University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative
"In the fall of 1994, the efforts of several organizations at the University of Michigan brought about the inception of the Humanities Text Initiative. Building on Michigan's ground-breaking efforts since 1990 in providing online access to full text, the Humanities Text Initiative (HTI) is an umbrella organization for the acquisition, creation, and maintenance of electronic texts, as well as a mechanism for furthering the University's capabilities in the area of online text. "

University of Virginia Electronic Text Center
"Since 1992, the Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia has pursued twin missions with equal seriousness of purpose: to build and maintain an internet- accessible collection of SGML texts and images; to build and maintain a user community adept at the creation and use of these materials. "

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Organizations

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American Society for Information Science and Technology
"Since 1937 ASIS has been the society for information professionals leading the search for new and better theories, techniques, and technologies to improve access to information." [9/30/04]

Archive Builders
"Archive Builders assists organizations with their plans for document management, document imaging systems and digital libraries. One of our most valuable services has proven to be advice and discussion of document management plans drawn up by organizations considering a system installation. We also offer onsite systems analysis, requirements planning and written system specifications. Our extensive experience in the field provides us with the insight to ask the necessary questions and clarify the issues the proposed system is designed to address." The site includes full-text articles on the Available Papers page.

Association of Research Libraries
The ARL Programs and Projects page lists many digital library initiatives and projects.

Center for Technology in Government
"CTG is an applied research center devoted to improving government and public services through policy, management, and technology innovation."

Colorado Digitization Project
The Colorado Digitization Project is a collaborative initiative involving Colorado's archives, historical societies, libraries, and museums. The Project will create a digital library-museum that will provide the people of Colorado access to the rich historical and cultural resources of this state.

Committee on Institutional Cooperation, [Champagn, Ill.] Center for Library Initiatives
"The CIC Center for Library Initiatives was established in 1994 to lead and direct resource sharing and collaboration among the research libraries of the CIC member universities. The goal of this program is to establish a cohesive consortial organization guided by a vision of the information resources in the CIC as a seamless whole, whether those resources are developed or owned individually or collectively."

Council of Library and Information Resources
"The proliferation of digital technology compels libraries and archives to consider the digital analogy to print collections. In fact, there is an urgent need to organize, provide access to, and preserve the rapidly growing bodies of information that exist only in digital formats. CLIR, serving as administrative home to the Digital Library Federation (DLF)—a collaborative enterprise of prestigious research libraries and archives—is committed to fostering the development of digital libraries."

Digital Library Federation
"The Digital Library Federation (DLF) was founded in 1995 to establish the conditions for creating, maintaining, expanding, and preserving a distributed collection of digital materials accessible to scholars, students, and a wider public. The Federation is a leadership organization operating under the umbrella of the Council on Library and Information Resources. It is composed of participants who manage and operate digital libraries." [9/30/04]

National Information Standards Organization
"The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) develops and promotes technical standards used in a wide variety of information services. NISO is a nonprofit association accredited as a standards developer by the American National Standards Institute, the national clearinghouse for voluntary standards development in the U.S."

Open eBook Initiative
"In October, 1998, the Open eBook initiative was announced at the world's first electronic book conference, sponsored by the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Md. On September 21, 1999 the Open eBook Authoring Group released the final version of the new 1.0 specification. One element of the Open eBook initiative is a specification for eBook file and format structure based on HTML and XML, the languages used to format information for Web sites. The goal of the specification is to quickly create a critical mass of compelling content. A publisher will be able to format a title once according to the specification and the content will be compatible with a wide variety of reading devices. Agreeing on a common set of file specifications will allow publishers to reach a large audience without separately reformatting their titles for each machine. This specification is designed to be compatible with the development plans of the major eBook efforts already underway. " September '99 Conference Links about eBooks. [9/30/04]

Open Source Digital Library System Project
"The Open Source Digital Library System is a project to develop an open source next-generation library system. This system can be implemented by a wide range of libraries - from small public libraries to large academic ones. In creating and developing the OSDLS, it is hoped that the project will also bring together in cooperation a diverse group of librarians and libraries who share a similar interest - having a freely available, fully functional library system."

Preservation at Cornell University

The RLG Preservation Program (PRESERV)
RLG (Research Libraries Group) Publications, Tools, and Resources: RLG DigiNews; ; RLG Magnetic and Optical Media Preservation Manual (2000); Moving Theory into Practice: Digital Imaging for Libraries and Archives (2000); "Guidelines for Digital Imaging" conference papers (1999) ; RLG tools for beginning digital reformatting projects (1998) ; Preserving Digital Information: Final Report and Recommendations (1996)

RLG-DLF Task Force on Policy & Practice for Long-term Retention of Digital Materials
"The task force will gather and analyze existing digital preservation policies and practice descriptions for the following classes of electronic materials: institutional records in digital form (i.e., electronic records); locally digitized materials (institutional projects); and electronic publications. It will create one or more digital preservation policy frameworks that adequately address the material types and relevant institutional contexts. It will make the policy framework(s) widely available in the RLG Web site, with links to statements of best available practice. It will recommend further collaborative action to continue development of the policy and practice Web site as new practices evolve."

Text Encoding Initiative
"The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) is an international project to develop guidelines for thepreparation and interchange of electronic texts for scholarly research, and to satisfy a broad range of uses by the languageindustries more generally. In this and attached documents, we describe the TEI and how you can obtain more information aboutit, including the TEI Guidelines. "

University of Michigan Digital Library Production Service
"The Digital Library Production Service (DLPS) was initiated in 1996 to provide critical infrastructure for campus digital library collections and access services. ...Principal projects include support for several major collections, as well as core format/content areas."

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Web Links about Digital Libraries

[Background and Technique] [Bibliographies] [Collection Development]
[Conferences] [Introductory Materials and Definitions]
[Journals] [Metadata] [Preservation]
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Background and Technique

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Archive Builders White Papers
"These materials are used in the UCLA Extension and other classes. They are available free for download."

Arms, William Y., Christophe Blanchi and Edward A. Overly . "An Architecture for Information in Digital Libraries"
"Flexible organization of information is one of the key design challenges in any digital library. For the past year, we have been working with members of the National Digital Library Project (NDLP) at the Library of Congress to build an experimental system to organize and store library collections. This is a report on the work."

"The Asilomar Report on Database Research"
"The database research community is rightly proud of success in basic research, and its remarkable record of technology transfer. Now the field needs to radically broaden its research focus to attack the issues of capturing, storing, analyzing, and presenting the vast array of online data. The database research community should embrace a broader research agenda -- broadening the definition of database management to embrace all the content of the Web and other online data stores, and rethinking our fundamental assumptions in light of technology shifts. To accelerate this transition, we recommend changing the way research results are evaluated and presented. In particular, we advocate encouraging more speculative and long-range work, moving conferences to a poster format, and publishing all research literature on the Web."

Australian Digitization Projects
"Australian digitisation projects - This service aims to record and make accessible information about digitisation projects undertaken by Australian cultural organisations. It is site for those working in Australian art galleries, libraries, museums, archives and other public and private institutions who are engaged in cultural projects involving digitisation. Use it to keep up to date with developments in digitisation and to locate other institutions within the country - to share expertise and experience."

Background Papers and Technical Information
"Documents relating to digitization efforts at the Library of Congress "

Besser , Howard & Robert Yamashita."THE COST OF DIGITAL IMAGE DISTRIBUTION: The Social and Economic Implications of the Production, Distribution and Usage of Image Data :FINAL REPORT
"A Mellon Foundation grant was awarded to UC Berkeley to study the costs and benefits of the networked distribution of digital museum information for educational use. This study takes advantage of the existing collaboration between the seven cultural repositories and seven universities that make up the Museum Education Site License Project (MESL), and utilizes professionals from the participating MESL institutions as well as the communications and collaborative structures that MESL established."

(California Heritage Collection) Digitizing the Collection
"The California Heritage Collection provides collection-level access to over 28,000 digital representations of primary source materials documenting California history. This prototype system uses Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) finding aid technology and Encoded Archival Description (EAD) standards developed at Berkeley in collaboration with the Society of American Archivists, the Library of Congress and other leading national and international repositories."

Cedars Guide to the Distributed Digital Archiving Prototype
he Cedars Project. 2002. "This document provides a description of the Cedars Distributed Digital Archiving Prototype System. It first explains the very practical problem of digital preservation and the assumptions and ideologies that underpin this system. The Cedars project built this system in order to test its methodologies; and primarily to prove that digital preservation was a soluble problem, since this system demonstrated how it could be solved."

Digital Library Information And Resources
Page produced by Ben Gross: "I have made my selections for this page on the basis of their breadth, depth, ingenuity and availability of content online."

Digital Libraries: Resources and Projects
International Federation of LIbrary Associations Site includes:
  • Bibliography
  • Periodicals
  • Conferences
  • Organizations
  • Projects: General
  • Projects: Americas
  • Projects: Asia-Pacific
  • Projects: Europe

    Digital Library Information Resources
    Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE.

    The Digital Library Program at Indiana University [Program Statement]
    "The Indiana University Digital Library Program (DLP) is dedicated to the selection, production, and maintenance of a wide range of high-quality networked resources for scholars and students at Indiana University and elsewhere. "

    Digital Toolbox - Colorado Digitization Project
    Designed to guide administrators of digital projects to sites and resources

    Digital Media Services
    Marjorie I. Mitchel Media Library, Northwestern Univeristy

    Digitising History
    A Guide to Creating Digital Resources from Historical Documents ; SEAN TOWNSEND, CRESSIDA CHAPPELL AND OSCAR STRUIJVÉ ; "This guide to creating, documenting and preserving digital resources derived from historical documents, is intended as a reference work for individuals and organisations involved with, or planning, the computerisation of historical source documents

    Digitizing the Collection:
    "The images were selected from the Manuscript and Pictorial Collections of The Bancroft Library, captured on 35mm film, and then scanned to Kodak Photo CD. The 1024 x 1536 greyscale images were pulled from the Photo-CDs for viewing. Finding aids were encoded using commercial SGML authoring tools. A database was used to keep track of the items as they were processed."

    Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0
    "The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a subset of SGML that is completely described in this document. Its goal is to enable generic SGML to be served, received, and processed on the Web in the way that is now possible with HTML. XML has been designed for ease of implementation and for interoperability with both SGML and HTML."

    Ferguson, Innes A. and Michael J. Wooldridge. "Paying Their Way: Commercial Digital Libraries for the 21st Century" , D-Lib Magazine, June 1997.
    "By most accounts, knowledge management will be the "killer app" of the coming decade. In this article, we claim that it is in this application domain that we should expect to see digital library technology making its commercial and industrial presence felt. We describe the various factors that are driving digital libraries from research to serious commercial use, and we illustrate how hese factors come together in a commercial digital library product suite, developed by Zuno Ltd."

    Fleischhauer, Carl. "Digital Formats for Content Reproductions", July 13, 1998
    This document and two others have been prepared, in part, to offer guidance to applicants in the Library of Congress/Ameritech competition. The other two documents are Digital Historical Collections: Types, Elements, and Construction and Access Aids and Interoperability. he trio of documents represent the evolution of the Library of Congress digital conversion activity during the years 1996 through 1998.

    Global Information Locator Service (GILS)
    "Simply stated, the Global Information Locator Service adopts a mature international standard for searching labeled information. This standard developed primarily in the library and information services communities. Today, it is in worldwide use on Internet and other networks. While it leverages common practice, the standard does not enforce any particular format. It specifies how to express a search and return results, in all languages. It does not specify how network servers manage records or how clients use records."

    Guidelines for Contributing the Columbia's Digital Library Collections
    "The guidelines below are intended for use by faculty and staff in selecting, creating and describing digital images intended for display as part of Columbia's Digital Library Collections. The recommendations are based on lessons learned here at Columbia and on the experience of other insitutions engaged in similar projects."

    Handbook for Digital Projects: A Management Tool for Preservation & Access
    "Realizing there was very little literature on this pressing topic, the Northeast Document Conservation Center undertook the job of developing a guide to managing digital conversion projects. The goal was to produce an easy-to-use primer focused on meeting the information needs of libraries, museums, archives, and other collectionholding institutions."

    HTML quick reference
    Produced by Academic Computing Services, University of Kansas. " The HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is composed of a set of elements that define a document and guide its display. This document presents a concise reference guide to HTML, listing the most commonly used elements from Versions 1 and 2 of HTML, and giving a brief description of those elements. "

    Kenney , Anne R. and Oya Y. Rieger . "Using Kodak Photo CD Technology for Preservation and Access : A Guide for Librarians, Archivists, and Curators "
    "Department of Preservation and Conservation, Cornell University Library for New York State Education Department, Program for the Conservation and Preservation of Library Materials May 1998."

    LeFurgy, William G. 2003. Levels of Service for Digital Repositories. D-Lib Magazine, vol. 8 no. 5, May 2002 "
    "Abstract: Digital preservation research has made important gains in recent years, and the capability for libraries and archives to manage digital collections continues to grow. This is obviously good news in that an expanded body of digital records, publications, and other objects will be preserved and made available. What is less obvious is that there is no magic bullet in the offing for dealing with all permanent digital materials: only a fraction will meet necessary conditions for optimal preservation and use. Materials that deviate from these conditions can still be included in digital collections, but finding and using them will be more difficult, perhaps substantially so. This article outlines conditions that govern the persistence of digital materials and suggests a model for future levels of service for digital repositories."

    Liblicense: Licensing Digital Information A Resource for Librarians
    Yale University and the Council for Library and Information Resources provide a site of resources designed for library professionals.

    Lynch, Clifford A. 2003. “Institutional Repositories: Essential Infrastructure for Scholarship in the Digital Age,” ARL, no. 226 (February 2003): 1-7
    " In the fall of 2002, something extraordinary occurred in the continuing networked information revolution, shifting the dynamic among individually driven innovation, institutional progress, and the evolution of disciplinary scholarly practices. The development of institutional repositories emerged as a new strategy that allows universities to apply serious, systematic leverage to accelerate changes taking place in scholarship and scholarly communication, both moving beyond their historic relatively passive role of supporting established publishers in modernizing scholarly publishing through the licensing of digital content, and also scaling up beyond ad-hoc alliances, partnerships, and support arrangements with a few select faculty pioneers exploring more transformative new uses of the digital medium."

    Moving Theory into Practice: Digital Imaging for Libraries and Archives
    "Research Libraries Group, 2000. An online tutorial at serves as an introduction to topics covered more extensively in the printed volume."

    National Archives and Records Administration - "NARA Guidelines for Digitizing Archival Materials for Electronic Access "
    "The goal of the National Archives and Records Administration's Electronic Access Project (EAP) is to produce an on-line catalog that will provide information about NARA holdings and a core collection of digital copies of selected high-interest documents. These Guidelines have been developed to provide a method of evaluating the quality of images produced, to estimate the data storage for access (on-line) files and master (off-line) files, and to assist in determining the need for upgrades to the NARA network infrastructure."

    National Digital Library Program Project Planning Checklist
    "This document outlines the production process for historical collections at the Library of Congress and reflects that institution's administrative structure and procedures. Not every collection requires all of the steps listed; some collections require additional steps not listed. In practice, many of the operations are carried out in parallel and not sequentially."

    National Science Foundation and The Library of Congress. 2003. It’s About Time: Research Challenges in Digital Archiving and Long-Term Preservation. Washington, DC: The Library of Congress. Publisher and Library Learning Solutions (PALS). 2004) Pathfinder Research on Web-based Repositories: Final Report, January 2004.
    The link is to the PALS home page. Look for: Pathfinder Research on Web-based Repositories: Final Report, January 2004. "The institutional repository, an open web-based archive of scholarly material produced by the members of a defined institution, has come to the fore following the launch of DSpace at MIT at the end of 2002. This report reviews recent developments and quantifies the growth of institutional repositories, and explores the impact their expansion may have on scholarly publishing."

    NCSA Beginner's Guide to HTML
    "Many people use the NCSA Beginner's Guide to HTML as a starting point to understanding the hypertext markup language (HTML) used on the World Wide Web. It is an introduction and does not pretend to offer instructions on every aspect of HTML. Links to additional Web-based resources about HTML and other related aspects of preparing files are provided at the end of the guide. "

    The Open Archival Information System Reference Model: Introductory Guide
    Lavoie, Brian F. 2004. Digital Preservation Coalition. "The reference model identifies and describes the core set of mechanisms with which an OAIS-type archive meets its primary mission of preserving information over the long-term and making it available to the Designated Community. These mechanisms are summarized by the OAIS functional model: a collection of six high-level services, or functional components, that, taken together, fulfill the OAIS’s dual role of preserving and providing access to the information in its custody."

    RLG/OCLC Working Group on Digital Archive Attributes. 2002. “Trusted Digital Repositories: Attributes and Responsibilities,”
    "In March 2000 RLG and OCLC began a collaboration to establish attributes of a digital repository for research organizations, building on and incorporating the emerging international standard of the Reference Model for an Open Archival Information System (OAIS). A working group was created to reach consensus on the characteristics and responsibilities of trusted digital repositories for large-scale, heterogeneous collections held by cultural organizations. A draft report was issued in August 2001 and in the extended comment period that followed a variety of interested individuals and organizations around the world contributed numerous thoughtful and helpful suggestions that have been incorporated into this final report."

    Resources: Digital Libraries
    Produced by Charles Bailey as part of his Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources.

    Reference Model for an Open Archival Information System (OAIS): CCSDS 650.0-B-1.
    Consultative Committee on Space Data Systems (CCSDS). 2002 "This document is a technical Recommendation for use in developing a broader consensus on what is required for an archive to provide permanent, or indefinite long-term, preservation of digital information."

    The Society of American Archivists Statement on The Preservation of Digitized Reproductions

    Technical Recommendations for Digital Imaging Projects
    "Prepared by the Image Quality Working Group of ArchivesCom, a joint Libraries/AcIS committee. Last Revised April 2, 1997"

    Tools for Today
    "Through its working groups, NINCH has responded to calls from the field for particular tools to assist practitioners in their current work. "

    Virtually New - Creating the Digital Collection
    "The Library and Information Commission has published its review of digitisation and digitisation projects in local authority libraries and archives as Virtually New - Creating the Digital Collection. On 9th February, 1998 the findings of the Review were presented to an invited audience drawn from the Commission's Research Committee and the International Committee, and, from the Department for Culture Media and Sport and the British Library Research and Innovation Centre. This web site provides the full text of the report in the form of a downloadable Microsoft Word file."

    Web4Lib Electronic Discussion
    "The Web4Lib electronic discussion is for the discussion of issues relating to the creation and management of library- based World-Wide Web servers and clients. Particularly appropriate issues for discussion include, but are not limited to: Web resource selection and information mounting in relation to existing acquisition and; collection development procedures ; cataloging and metadata issues regarding Web information; in-house patron access to Web servers (e.g., Netscape on patron- accessible computers); training staff or users to use the Web or to create Web resources "

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    Bibliographies

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    Electronic Publishing Reference Resources on the Internet
    Compiled by: Marian Dworaczek, Head, Acquisitions Department, and Head, Technical Services Division, University of Saskatchewan Libraries.

    Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources
    "Bailey, Charles W., Jr. Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography. Houston: University of Houston Libraries, 1996-99. ."

    Standardized Handling of Digital Resources: An Annotated Bibliography
    American Library Association, Association for Library Collections and Technical Services, Networked Resources & Metadata Committee, Standards Subcommittee Contributors: Cecilia M. Preston, Judith R. Ahronheim, Richard Baumgarten, Laurence S. Creider, Mary Engle, Jerome P. McDonough, Regina R. Reynolds

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    Collection Development

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    Five College Archives Digital Access Project
    Criteria for Selection of Archival Content

    COLORADO DIGITIZATION PROJECT COLLECTION POLICY
    (Colorado Digitization Project, Guiding Principles, approved by the CDP Advisory Committee, November, 1998.)

    Planning with Criteria
    Guidelines for Planning UCLA Digital Projects

    Columbia University Libraries Selection Criteria For Digital Imaging
    "The criteria [...] are neither exhaustive nor prescriptive, and their relative importance will vary depending on the purpose for which digitization is proposed. They are designed to prompt planners to think carefully about the important issues."

    PERRY LIBRARY – OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY
    DRAFT -- rev 6/17/99 Perry Library – Old Dominion University Selection Criteria for Digitization

    FIU Digital Library Project
    Florida International Univeristy Criteria for Selecting and Prioritizing New Resources for FIU Digital Library

    Guidelines for Selection Criteria for Digitizing Collections

    "The Western New York Digital Access Project's Guidelines for Selection Criteria for Digitizing Collections is developed at the Western New York Library Resources Council under the auspices of a Library Services and Technology Act grant from the New York State Library to help libraries and archives considering digitizing holdings material to determine whether or not the current electronic world provides a feasible and beneficial platform for their collections."

    Selection of Materials for Scanning
    Northeast Document Conservation Center, Handbook for Digital Projects: A Management Tool for Preservation and Access: Chapter IV: "Selection of Materials for Scanning"

    Selecting Research Collections for Digitization
    "This paper proposes a model of the decision-making process required of research libraries when they embark on digital conversion projects. It is one of a series by CLIR dedicated to selection policy questions that have arisen in the digital information environment"...; by Dan Hazen, Jeffrey Horrell, Jan Merrill-Oldham August 1998

    University Of California Selection Criteria for Digitization
    The following list of criteria is recommended to guide collection development librarians and preservation librarians in selecting collections of analog materials (including paper, film, audio, and video) for conversion to digital format. Some of the criteria are based on conventional selection and preservation considerations common to all formats; others arise from the opportunities and constraints unique to digital technologies.

    SELECTION CRITERIA AND GUIDELINES Selecting Materials for Digital Preservation at the National Agricultural Library
    November 1, 1995;Prepared by the Selection Task Force of the Electronic Preservation Committee National Agricultural Library Agricultural Research Service, USDA Beltsville, Maryland

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    Conferences

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    ALIA ACT Branch and FLIN Digital Library Conference
    Held on Tuesday, November 16 1999 at the National Library of Australia

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    Introductory Materials and Definitions

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    Definition and Purposes of a Digital Library"
    Produced by the Association of Research Libraries, from: "Realizing Digital Libraries: Association of Research Libraries, Proceedings of the 126th Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts May 17-19, 1995, Jerry D. Campbell, Presiding.

    NDLP Project Planning Checklist [National Digital Library Program]
    "This document outlines the production process for historical collections at the Library of Congress and reflects that institution's administrative structure and procedures. Not every collection requires all of the steps listed; some collections require additional steps not listed. In practice, many of the operations are carried out in parallel and not sequentially."

    Harter, Stephen P. "What is a Digital Library? Definitions, Content, and Issues"
    "A paper presented at KOLISS DL '96: International Conference on Digital Libraries and Information Services for the 21st Century, September 10-13, 1996, Seoul, Korea. '

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    Journals

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    Ariadne
    "The Ariadne newsletter is aimed initially at subject librarians and other working librarians in academic libraries, though many people in the UK Higher Education and LIS communities will find items of interest within it. The newsletter has two main aims: It describes and evaluates sources and services available on the Internet, and of potential use, to librarians and information professionals. It reports to the library community at large on progress and developments within the Electronic Libraries Programme, and of JISC-funded and other information services, keeping the busy practitioner abreast of current relevant developments."

    D-Lib Magazine
    D-Lib Magazine is a monthly magazine about digital libraries for researchers, developers, and the intellectually curious. New issues are published on the 15th of each month.

    RLG Diginews
    Published by Research Libraries Group; "RLG is excited to be working in cooperation with the Cornell University Library Department of Preservation and Conservation to provide you with this publication. RLG DigiNews is a bimonthly web-based newsletter intended to: -Focus on issues of particular interest and value to managers of digital initiatives with a preservation component or rationale. -Provide filtered guidance and pointers to relevant projects to improve our awareness of evolving practices in image conversion and digital archiving. -Announce publications (in any form) that will help staff attain a deeper understanding of digital issues.

    Digital Library News : (DLN) Archives, IEEE Computer Society

    Journal of Electronic Publishing
    Published by the University of Michigan Press.

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    Metadata

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    Digital Libraries: Metadata Resources
    International Federation of Library Associations site includes: General Indices : Dublin Core; Geospatial Metadata ; GILS; IAFA / Whois++; MARC ; MCF; PICS; SHOE ; SOIF ; X3L8 ; Z39.50: Collections; Profile and Bib-1; Attributes; SGML/XML/HTML: Metadata ; EAD; HTML META ; RDF ; TEI ; Object Identifiers : General Resources; DOI; Handles; PII; PURL ; SICI; URI; URIs/URLs; URNs; URCs ; Conferences and Workshops; Selected Background Documents; Metadata Tools

    Dublin Core Metadata
    "The Dublin Core Metadata Workshop Series began in 1995 with an invitational workshop which brought together librarians, digital library researchers, content experts, and text-markup experts to promote better discovery standards for electronic resources. The Dublin Core is a 15-element set of descriptors that has emerged from this effort in interdisciplinary and international consensus building. This is the first of a set of Informational RFCs describing the Dublin Core. Its purpose is to introduce the Dublin Core and to describe the consensus reached on the semantics of each of the 15 elements."

    Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
    "The Dublin Core is a metadata element set intended to facilitate discovery of electronic resources. Originally conceived for author-generated description of Web resources, it has attracted the attention of formal resource description communities such as museums, libraries, government agencies, and commercial organizations."

    "Guidance on expressing the Dublin Core within the Resource Description Framework (RDF)"
    "This document is a Working Draft of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative [DC], and is intended to reflect consensus reached within the Data Model Working Group [DCDM] of that Initiative. Following due consideration within the working group, and a period of open consultation with the wider Dublin Core community, this draft is offered to the Dublin Core Advisory Committee for acceptance and ratification."Comments and feedback should be sent to the working group mailing list, dc-datamodel@mailbase.ac.uk, the archives for which may be browsed at .

    metadata [Federal Geographic Data Committee]
    "Metadata or "data about data" describe the content, quality, condition, and other characteristics of data. The Federal Geographic Data Committee approved the Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata on June 8, 1994 and recently approved a revised version. Visit the FGDC Clearinghouse to learn more about how metadata is used in Internet-based clearinghouses to search for specific data sets."

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    Preservation

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    "Digital Initiatives" (Harvard University Library)
    Library Preservation at Harvard includes these initiatives.

    Digital Preservation Needs and Requirements of RLG Member Institutions
    By Margaret Hedstrom and Sheon Montgomery December 1998. A study commissioned by the Research Libraries Group.

    Joint RLG and NPO Preservation Conference Guidelines for Digital Imaging 28 - 30 September 1998
    Selection Criteria, Guidelines, Decision-making Aids. Most conference papers are available on this site.

    Preservation Digital Reformatting Program
    Preservation Reformatting Division, Library of Congress
    The digitizing component of the preservation reformatting program has three parts: Selection criteria; Digital reformatting principles and specifications, including phased delivery, and Life-cycle management of LC digital data

    Preserving Digital Information
    "In December 1994, the Commission on Preservation and Access and The Research Libraries Group created the Task Force on Digital Archiving. The purpose of the Task Force was to investigate the means of ensuring "continued access indefinitely into the future of records stored in digital electronic form."

    Preserving Digital Information: Final Report and Recommendations
    "At the end of 1994 the Commission on Preservation and Access (CPA) and RLG created a Task Force on Archiving of Digital Information charged with investigating and recommending means to ensure "continued access indefinitely into the future of records stored in digital electronic form." The 21-member task force, co-chaired with distinction by Donald Waters, Associate University Librarian, Yale University, and John Garrett, Chief Executive Officer of CyberVillages Corporation, recently completed their final report. RLG and CPA are making this widely available online and in print."

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