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National Library of Energy Science and Technology.
Spence, Karen J. – D-Lib Magazine, 1998
Discusses the establishment of a digital National Library of Energy Science and Technology, a key initiative that the Department of Energy is pursuing to make its program and research and development information accessible to the public. Describes the program objectives, features of the National Library, potential performance measures, benefits,…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Electronic Libraries, Government Libraries, Information Services
Realizing the Hybrid Library.
Pinfield, Stephen; Eaton, Jonathan; Edwards, Catherine; Russell, Rosemary; Wissenburg, Astrid; Wynne, Peter – D-Lib Magazine, 1998
Outlines five projects currently funded by the United Kingdom's Electronic Libraries Program (eLib): HyLiFe (Hybrid Library of the Future), MALIBU (MAnaging the hybrid Library for the Benefit of Users), HeadLine (Hybrid Electronic Access and Delivery in the Library Networked Environment), ATHENS (authentication scheme), and BUILDER (Birmingham…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Electronic Libraries, Futures (of Society), Library Administration
Automated Digital Libraries: How Effectively Can Computers Be Used for the Skilled Tasks of Professional Librarianship? [and] Robust Hyperlinks and Locations [and] Designing Documents To Enhance the Performance of Digital Libraries: Time, Space, People and a Digital Library in London [and] Virginia Dons FEDORA: A Prototype for a Digital Object Repository [and] Preserving the Authencity of Contingent Digital Ojbects: The InterPARES Project.
Arms, William Y.; Phelps, Thomas A.; Wilensky, Robert; Crane, Gregory; Staples, Thornton; Wayland, Ross; Gilliland-Swetland, Anne J.; Eppard, Philip B. – D-Lib Magazine, 2000
Discusses the cost of access to research information and suggests that lower staff costs in a digital library setting are a key to providing more affordable access. Topics include equivalent library services; quality of service; differences between disciplines; archiving and preservation; citations, hyperlinks, and reference linking; metadata;…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Archives, Citations (References), Cost Effectiveness
Middleware for Digital Libraries.
Bacon, Jean; Hayton, Richard; Moody, Ken – D-Lib Magazine, 1998
Describes a security architecture, Oasis, which runs on a middleware platform extended for asynchronous operation; shows how the interoperation of independently developed services may be supported under the Oasis architecture. Uses the provision of digital academic library services as an example. (Author/AEF)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Computer Security, Computer Software Development
NSF/DARPA/NASA Digital Libraries Initiative: A Program Manager's Perspective.
Griffin, Stephen M. – D-Lib Magazine, 1998
Discusses the National Science Foundation (NSF)/United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)/National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) Research in Digital Libraries Initiative (DLI). Highlights include benefits of digital libraries; the Federal High Performance Computing and Communications Program (HPCC); and program…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Electronic Libraries, Federal Programs, Government Libraries
Comparing Library and User Related Costs of Print and Electronic Journal Collections; Open Citation Linking; Toward a Global Digital Library; Information Retrieval by Semantic Analysis and Visualization of the Concept Space of D-Lib[R] Magazine.
Montgomery, Carol Hansen; King, Donald W.; Hitchcock, Steve; Brody, Tim; Carr, Les; Gutteridge, Christopher; Hall, Wendy; Harnad, Stevan; Bergmark, Donna; Lagoze, Carl; Fox, Edward A.; Moore, Reagan W.; Larsen, Ronald L.; Myaeng, Sung Hyon; Kim, Sung-Hyuk; Zhang, Junliang; Mostafa, Javed; Tripathy, Himansu – D-Lib Magazine, 2002
Includes four articles that discuss the impact of academic libraries' shift to electronic journals on staff and costs; open citation linking for improved access and the Open Archives Initiative; development of global digital libraries, particularly between the United States and Korea; and retrieving documents from a digital library through a…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Citations (References), Computer Interfaces
The NASA ADS Abstract Service and the Distributed Astronomy Digital Library [and] Project Soup: Comparing Evaluations of Digital Collection Efforts [and] Cross-Organizational Access Management: A Digital Library Authentication and Authorization Architecture [and] BibRelEx: Exploring Bibliographic Databases by Visualization of Annotated Content-based Relations [and] Semantics-Sensitive Retrieval for Digital Picture Libraries [and] Encoded Archival Description: An Introduction and Overview.
Kurtz, Michael J.; Eichorn, Guenther; Accomazzi, Alberto; Grant, Carolyn S.; Demleitner, Markus; Murray, Stephen S.; Jones, Michael L. W.; Gay, Geri K.; Rieger, Robert H.; Millman, David; Bruggemann-Klein, Anne; Klein, Rolf; Landgraf, Britta; Wang, James Ze; Li, Jia; Chan, Desmond; Wiederhold, Gio; Pitti, Daniel V. – D-Lib Magazine, 1999
Includes six articles that discuss a digital library for astronomy; comparing evaluations of digital collection efforts; cross-organizational access management of Web-based resources; searching scientific bibliographic databases based on content-based relations between documents; semantics-sensitive retrieval for digital picture libraries; and…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Archives, Astronomy, Bibliographic Databases
Directions for Defense Digital Libraries.
Larsen, Ronald L. – D-Lib Magazine, 1998
Describes directions, challenges, and objectives of the information management program of the United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The program envisions the rigor and organization normally associated with a research library to be virtually rendered and extended in the networked world of distributed information. (AEF)
Descriptors: Access to Information, Electronic Libraries, Federal Programs, Information Management
Growing a National Learning Environments and Resources Network for Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology Education: Current Issues and Opportunities for the NSDL Program; Open Linking in the Scholarly Information Environment Using the OpenURL Framework; The HeadLine Personal Information Environment: Evaluation Phase One.
Zia, Lee L.; Van de Sompel, Herbert; Beit-Arie, Oren; Gambles, Anne – D-Lib Magazine, 2001
Includes three articles that discuss the National Science Foundation's National Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology Education Digital Library (NSDL) program; the OpenURL framework for open reference linking in the Web-based scholarly information environment; and HeadLine (Hybrid Electronic Access and Delivery in the Library Networked…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Electronic Libraries, Engineering Education, Foreign Countries
Perspectives on DLI-2-Growing the Field [and] Digital Libraries Initiative - Phase 2: Fiscal Year 1999 Awards [and] Reference Linking for Journal Articles [and] Creating a Large-Scale Digital Library for Georeferenced Information [and] A Report on the PEAK Experiment: Usage and Economic Behavior.
Lesk, Michael; Griffin, Stephen M.; Caplan, Priscilla; Arms, William Y.; Zhu, Bin; Ramsey, Marshall; Ng, Tobun D.; Chen, Hsinchun; Schatz, Bruce; MacKie-Mason, Jeffrey K.; Riveros, Juan F.; Bonn, Maria. S.; Lougee, Wendy P. – D-Lib Magazine, 1999
Describes the growth and accomplishments of Digital Libraries Initiative Phase 2 (DLI-2), lists performer and abstract information for Fiscal Year 1999 awards; progress in reference linking for journal articles with model; presents a Geospatial Knowledge Representation System (GKRS) prototype that integrates multiple knowledge sources to support…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Mediated Communication, Electronic Libraries, Federal Aid
The Perseus Project and Beyond: How Building a Digital Library Challenges the Humanities and Technology.
Crane, Gregory – D-Lib Magazine, 1998
The Perseus Project, a digital library in the humanities concentrating on ancient Greek culture, is expanding to cover Roman, Renaissance and various other areas of the humanities. Goals include helping traditional scholars research effectively and help humanists use technology to redefine the relationship between their work and the broader…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Electronic Libraries, Greek Civilization, Humanities
A Content Standard for Computational Models; Digital Rights Management (DRM) Architectures; A Digital Object Approach to Interoperable Rights Management: Finely-Grained Policy Enforcement Enabled by a Digital Object Infrastructure; LOCKSS: A Permanent Web Publishing and Access System; Tapestry of Time and Terrain.
Hill, Linda L.; Crosier, Scott J.; Smith, Terrence R.; Goodchild, Michael; Iannella, Renato; Erickson, John S.; Reich, Vicky; Rosenthal, David S. H. – D-Lib Magazine, 2001
Includes five articles. Topics include requirements for a content standard to describe computational models; architectures for digital rights management systems; access control for digital information objects; LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) that allows libraries to run Web caches for specific journals; and a Web site from the U.S.…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Information Systems, Library Services, Scholarly Journals
Public Access to Digital Material; A Call to Researchers: Digital Libraries Need Collaboration across Disciplines; Greenstone: Open-Source Digital Library Software; Retrieval Issues for the Colorado Digitization Project's Heritage Database; Report on the 5th European Conference on Digital Libraries, ECDL 2001; Report on the First Joint Conference on Digital Libraries.
Kahle, Brewster; Prelinger, Rick; Jackson, Mary E.; Boyack, Kevin W.; Wylie, Brian N.; Davidson, George S.; Witten, Ian H.; Bainbridge, David; Boddie, Stefan J.; Garrison, William A.; Cunningham, Sally Jo; Borgman, Christine L.; Hessel, Heather – D-Lib Magazine, 2001
These six articles discuss various issues relating to digital libraries. Highlights include public access to digital materials; intellectual property concerns; the need for collaboration across disciplines; Greenstone software for construction and presentation of digital information collections; the Colorado Digitization Project; and conferences…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Software, Conferences, Electronic Libraries
Evaluation Methodologies for Information Management Systems; Building Digital Tobacco Industry Document Libraries at the University of California, San Francisco Library/Center for Knowledge Management; Experiments with the IFLA Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR); Coming to Term: Designing the Texas Email Repository Model.
Morse, Emile L.; Schmidt, Heidi; Butter, Karen; Rider, Cynthia; Hickey, Thomas B.; O'Neill, Edward T.; Toves, Jenny; Green, Marlan; Soy, Sue; Gunn, Stan; Galloway, Patricia – D-Lib Magazine, 2002
Includes four articles that discuss evaluation methods for information management systems under the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency; building digital libraries at the University of California San Francisco's Tobacco Control Archives; IFLA's Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records; and designing the Texas email repository model…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Archives, Bibliographic Records, Electronic Libraries
The Joint NSF/JISC International Digital Libraries Initiative [and] Personalized Information Environments: An Architecture for Customizable Access to Distributed Digital Libraries [and] A Report on the PEAK Experiment: Context and Design.
Wiseman, Norman; Rusbridge, Chris; Griffin, Stephen M.; French, James C.; Viles, Charles L.; Bonn, Maria S.; Lougee, Wendy P.; MacKie-Mason, Jeffrey K.; Riveros, Juan F. – D-Lib Magazine, 1999
Describes the joint NSF/JISC (National Science Foundation/UK Joint Information Systems Committee) International Digital Libraries Initiative. Discusses JISC funding criteria and procedures; personalized information environment (PIE), a conceptual architecture that allows unified, highly customizable access to distributed information resources; and…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Cooperative Programs, Electronic Libraries, Environment