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Building a Hypertextual Digital Library in the Humanities: A Case Study on London.
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Crane, Gregory; Smith, David A.; Wulfman, Clifford E. – 2001
This paper describes the creation of a new humanities digital library collection: 11,000,000 words and 10,000 images representing books, images, and maps on pre-twentieth century London and its environs. The London collection contained far more dense and precise information than the materials from the Greco-Roman world. The London collection thus…
Descriptors: Archives, Electronic Libraries, Foreign Countries, Humanities
Enduring Paradigm, New Opportunities: The Value of the Archival Perspective in the Digital Environment.
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Gilliland-Swetland, Anne J. – 2000
This report examines the experiences and contributions of the archival community--practicing archivists, manuscript curators, archival academics, and policy makers who work to define and promote the social utility of records and to identify, preserve, and provide access to documentary heritage regardless of format. The report addresses how the…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Archives, Electronic Libraries, Information Management
Digital Preservation: A Time Bomb for Digital Libraries.
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Hedstrom, Margaret – Computers and the Humanities, 1998
Argues that the difficulty and expense of preserving digital information is a potential impediment to digital library development. Discusses the present state of digital preservation, articulates requirements for users and custodians, and suggests research topics in storage media, migration, conversion, and overall management strategies. (DSK)
Descriptors: Archives, Educational Research, Electronic Libraries, Higher Education
Search Middleware and the Simple Digital Library Interoperability Protocol [and] Meeting the Challenge of Film Research In the Electronic Age [and] Collection-based Persistent Digital Archives-Part 1 [and] The Virtual Union Catalog: A Comparative Study.
Paepcke, Andreas; Brandriff, Robert; Janee, Greg; Larson, Ray; Ludaescher, Bertram; Melnik, Sergey; Raghavan, Sriram; [and] Owen, Catherine; Pearson, Tony; Arnold, Stephen; [and] Moore, Reagan; Baru, Chaitan; Rajasekar, Arcot; Ludaescher, Bertram; Marciano, Richard; Wan, Michael; Schroeder, Wayne; Gupta, Amarnath; [and] Coyle, Karen – D-Lib Magazine, 2000
Includes four articles that discuss: (1) search middleware, or software packages that allow access to information sources for digital libraries; (2) film archives and building online collections of data for use in film research and teaching; (3) digital archives; and (4) a virtual union catalog for the University of California. (LRW)
Descriptors: Archives, Comparative Analysis, Computer Software, Electronic Libraries
Critical Technological and Architectural Choices for Access and Preservation in a Digital Library Environment.
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Solbakk, Svein Arne – 2002
This paper describes some basic architectural choices for the access to and preservation of digital objects at the National Library of Norway. A digital repository is a core element for the handling of both access to and preservation of the digital objects. Strategies for giving access to the complete holdings include the use of a powerful search…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Archives, Electronic Libraries, Foreign Countries
Computerization of the Archivo General de Indias: Strategies and Results.
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Gonzalez, Pedro – 1998
The project of the Archivo General de Indias (AGI) in Seville, Spain has digitized more than 11 million of its pages of documents relating to Spanish history in the New World. This report illustrates the experience of the AGI, and the range of decisions that managers have faced throughout the project. Following an introduction and background…
Descriptors: Archives, Case Studies, Decision Making, Electronic Libraries
What Do Faculty Want?
Palmer, Janet P.; Sandler, Mark – Library Journal, 2003
Discusses the choices academic libraries are making between digital collections and maintaining print collections and describes results of interviews with faculty at the University of Michigan that investigated their use of print and electronic journals. Topics include convenience; access; books versus journals; differences between subject areas;…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Archives, Electronic Journals
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