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Robert M. Cermak – Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education, 2023
This article examines the structural disparities between the archives at the University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN) and Michigan State University (MSU). While Nigerian archivists work to preserve their institutions' local content, they must contend with cultural and infrastructural constraints foreign to their American counterparts. To elucidate these…
Descriptors: Archives, Universities, Foreign Countries, Inquiry
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Mariangela Spotti Lopes Fujita; Roberta Cristina Dal’Evedove Tartarotti; Paula Regina Dal´Evedove; Maria Carolina Andrade e Cruz – College & Research Libraries, 2024
Considering the importance of subject retrieval for scientific visibility, and the need to guide authors in self-archiving their papers in institutional repositories of university libraries, this study observed the patterns and strategies used by authors while indexing for keyword assignment. The study examined four categories of analysis:…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Authors, Research Libraries, Scientific and Technical Information
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Catherine Montgomery; Craig Stewart; Olanrewaju Aduragba; Francesca Poli – Higher Education Quarterly, 2024
This paper seeks to illuminate new perspectives on the concept of crisis in globalised higher education (HE) by focusing on knowledge generated by doctoral research. Doctoral research is a significant part of research and knowledge building in HE, particularly in science, and doctoral students contribute to the research capacity and knowledge…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Higher Education, Doctoral Dissertations, Student Research
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Pinkas, María M.; Lin, Na – Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 2014
This article describes the application of electronic resources management (ERM) to digital repository management at the Health Sciences and Human Services Library at the University of Maryland, Baltimore. The authors discuss electronic resources management techniques, through the application of "Techniques for Electronic Management,"…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Medical Libraries, Electronic Libraries, Methods
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Petrelli, Daniela; Auld, Daniel – Program: Electronic Library and Information Systems, 2008
Purpose: This paper aims to provide an initial understanding of the constraints that historical video collections pose to video retrieval technology and the potential that online access offers to both archive and users. Design/methodology/approach: A small and unique collection of videos on customs and folklore was used as a case study. Multiple…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Access to Information, Archives, Information Retrieval
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Xia, Jingfeng – Program: Electronic Library and Information Systems, 2006
Purpose: To propose improvements to the identification of authors' names in digital repositories. Design/methodology/approach: Analysis of current name authorities in digital resources, particularly in digital repositories, and analysis of some features of existing repository applications. Findings: This paper finds that the variations of authors'…
Descriptors: Identification, Authors, Documentation, Electronic Libraries
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Lagoze Carl; Van de Sompel, Herbert – Library Hi Tech, 2003
Explores factors in the history of the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) that have contributed to the positive response of the digital library and information community toward version 2 of the OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting. Factors include focus on a defined problem statement, an operational model in which strong leadership is balanced with…
Descriptors: Archives, Data Collection, Electronic Libraries, Harvesting
Tennant, Roy – Library Journal, 2000
Discusses interoperability as a key challenge to digital libraries and describes efforts of the Open Archives initiative (formerly Universal Preprint Service initiative) to develop an open architecture that supports simultaneous searching and retrieval of papers from disparate archives. Highlights include scientific information and journal…
Descriptors: Archives, Electronic Libraries, Information Retrieval, Journal Articles
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Chang, May – Library Hi Tech, 2000
Describes the development of electronic finding aids for archives at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign that used XML (extensible markup language) and EAD (encoded archival description) to enable more flexible information management and retrieval than using MARC or a relational database management system. EAD template is appended.…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Archives, Database Management Systems, Electronic Libraries
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Shreeves, Sarah L.; Kaczmarek, Joanne S.; Cole, Timothy W. – Library Hi Tech, 2003
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign undertook a project to test the efficacy of using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting to construct a search and discovery service focused on information resources in the domain of cultural heritage. Provides an overview of the Illinois project, with quantitative data about…
Descriptors: Archives, Culture, Data Collection, Electronic Libraries
Rowe, Jeremy; Razdan, Anshuman – 2003
The Partnership for Research in Spatial Modeling (PRISM) project at Arizona State University (ASU) developed modeling and analytic tools to respond to the limitations of two-dimensional (2D) data representations perceived by affiliated discipline scientists, and to take advantage of the enhanced capabilities of three-dimensional (3D) data that…
Descriptors: Archives, Data, Data Analysis, Data Collection
Hayes, Mike – Information Management & Technology, 1997
Document management (DM) systems capture, store, index, retrieve, route, distribute, and archive information in organizations. Discusses "passive" electronic libraries and "active" systems; characteristics of effective systems; implementing a system; fitting a new system to an existing infrastructure; budgets; system…
Descriptors: Archives, Document Delivery, Documentation, Efficiency
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Galloway, Edward A.; Michalek, Gabrielle V. – Public-Access Computer Systems Review, 1995
Discusses the conversion project of the congressional papers of Senator John Heinz into digital format and the provision of electronic access to these papers by Carnegie Mellon University. Topics include collection background, project team structure, document processing, scanning, use of optical character recognition software, verification…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Archives, Character Recognition, Computer Interfaces
Theng, Yin-Leng, Ed.; Foo, Schubert, Ed. – Information Science Publishing, 2005
This book showcases some of the best digital library practices from organizations in the Asia Pacific. Particular emphasis has been placed on the design, use and usability of digital libraries. Not only are digital libraries examined, but related technologies, the management of knowledge in digital libraries, and the associated usability and…
Descriptors: Electronic Libraries, Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Design
Kenerson, Murle E. – 1997
A wealth of African-American resources have remained "hidden resources," even as interest in and need for these rare documents has risen. Digitizing collections would make these materials available through the Internet and World Wide Web. Many of these materials reside in historically black institutions which oftentimes lack the…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Archives, Black Culture
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