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Cole, Timothy W. – First Monday, 2002
Presents the Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections that was developed by the Institute of Museum and Library Services with other organizations to guide museums and libraries in digitization collection practices. Highlights digital collections, digital objects, and metadata, and discusses reusability, persistence,…
Descriptors: Documentation, Library Collection Development, Library Collections, Metadata
Cole, Timothy W.; Kaczmarek, Joanne; Marty, Paul F.; Prom, Christopher J.; Sandore, Beth; Shreeves, Sarah – 2002
The Open Archives Initiative (OAI) Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (PMH) is designed to facilitate discovery of the "hidden web" of scholarly information, such as that contained in databases, finding aids, and XML documents. OAI-PMH supports standardized exchange of metadata describing items in disparate collections, of such as those…
Descriptors: Information Retrieval, Information Sources, Information Technology, Library Collections
Cole, Timothy W.; Mischo, William H.; Ferrer, Robert; Habing, Thomas G. – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 2000
Describes the evolving information technologies employed at the Digital Library Initiative (DLI-I) Testbed of full-text journal articles at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Examines how XML, XSLT, and CSS can be used in a digital library application and discusses document representation and transmission, metadata schema, and…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Document Delivery, Electronic Libraries, Higher Education
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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
Cole, Timothy W.; Allen, Robert S.; Schmitz, John G. – Illinois Libraries, 2000
Describes the development of a prototype Web-based outreach information system for a collection of educational resources in agriculture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Discusses distance education, student expectations, Web searching, testbed collections, metadata issues, indexing and searching full-text, and Dublin Core…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Agricultural Education, Distance Education, Educational Resources