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Severiens, Thomas; Hohlfeld, Michael; Zimmermann, Kerstin; Hilf, Eberhard R.; von Ossietzky, Carl; Weibel, Stuart L.; Koch, Traugott; Hughes, Carol Ann; Bearman, David – D-Lib Magazine, 2000
Includes four articles that discuss a variety to topics, including a distributed network of physics institutions documents called PhysDocs which harvests information from the local Web-servers of professional physics institutions; the Dublin Core metadata initiative; information services for higher education in a competitive environment; and…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Electronic Libraries, Higher Education, Information Networks
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Seadle, Michael – Library Hi Tech, 1998
Summarizes the elements of the Cornell-Yale digitization model and shows how Michigan State University (MSU) has expanded the model, focusing on a project to digitize the American Radicalism Collection of the MSU Libraries. Issues of selection, quality, integrity, longevity, and access are discussed. Sidebars present MSU digitizing procedures,…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Higher Education, Library Automation
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Jantz, Ronald C. – Library Hi Tech, 2000
Discussion of digital library projects at Rutgers University focuses on publishing bibliographic databases on the Web to provide access to information sources not likely to be published elsewhere. Describes the reusable technology platform concept, bibliographic platform architecture, metadata approach, data entry, and managing the process.…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Bibliographic Databases, 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
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Saarela, Janne; Turpeinen, Marko; Puskala, Tuomas; Korkea-aho, Mari; Sulonen, Reijo – Information Processing & Management, 1997
Describes an object-oriented approach which implements the logical model of a hypermedia newspaper based on experiences with the OtaOnline project at the Helsinki University of Technology (Finland.) Highlights include presentation formats, a semantical rating system, distribution schemes, metadata, and added-value features facilitated by the…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Electronic Publishing, Foreign Countries, Higher Education