Digital Libraries:
A Selected Resource Guide
Template
for Digital Collections Proposals at UConn
Digital
Collections Online (DCO): Search the Database
Inhabiting
the virtual city
"The goal of this work is to develop an approach to the design of on-line
social environments. My thesis is that, in order to foster the development
of vibrant
and viable online communities, the environment - i.e. the technical
infrastructure and user interface - must provide the means to communicate
social cues and information: the participants must be able to perceive
the social patterns of activity and affiliation and the community must
be able to evolve a fluid and subtle cultural vocabulary."
War, Peace & Security
Server : WPS Guide
A digital libray, highly organized hierarchiy of topics.
Digital Library Initiatives Across Europe
User Interface Engineering -- "Surprises on the Web" Article
Rating
Implementation Choices
"Peer Collaborative Filtering Versus Parental Control"
Internet Library of Early
Journals
A digital library of 18th and 19th Century journals
Thousands of newspapers on the Net
VALE: Virtual Academic Library Environment of New Jersey
Index to Free Full-Text Electronic Journals in Science
Information
Research: an electronic journal
Excellent resources from the University of Conneticut
Digital
Collections Toolbox
Gateway to
Digital Collections Resources at UConn
Virtual Library
museums pages (VLmp)
ScreamDesign-Free
animated gifs,images,web design,flash animation,photoshop tips,html,icons
Digital
Collections Online (DCO): Search the Database
An
Introduction to Finding Images on the World Wide Web
American
Revolution Resources
Architecture for Information in Digital Libraries
Navigation Basics - How to build better web site navigation from efuse.com
Z E N Multimedia - eBusiness
Solutions Provider
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UCLA-NSF Social Aspects of Digital Libraries Workshop: Final Report
Whitepaper-Final
http://www.iei.pi.cnr.it/DELOS/NSF/resourcediscovery.htm
Digital resources transcend the physical borders that have for so long
framed economic, scholarly and cultural transactions. As such, digital
libraries are inherently multi-national. This global scope complicates
many of the technical issues associated with digital libraries and underlies
the importance of international cooperation in undertaking research on
these issues.
In this context, both the United States National Science Foundation,
through the University of Michigan, and the European Union, through the
DELOS Working Group, jointly funded a set of working groups to develop
international research agendas on selected digital library research areas.
These working groups are:
Digital
Image Collections http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/inside/projects/diap/paper.html
"Efforts to begin creating the national digital library--a concept
that encompasses archival collections, texts, images, sound files, full-motion
video,composite documents, and other document types--have led quickly to
the need for new approaches to the bibliographic control of such items,
at both the local and national level.
The discussions and prototyping carried out during RLG Digital Image
Access Project (DIAP) suggest a new data model for the bibliographic control
of and access to digital image collections..."
Digital Library Research
& Development (Berkeley SunSITE) http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/R%2BD/
An extensive annotated webliography of digital projects with
links to projects and artilces.
Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) http://www.theses.org/
Digital
Techniques for Character Recognition in Old Documents http://www.ercim.org/publication/Ercim_News/enw28/bedini.html
"Two research projects have recently been activated by the Italian
National Research Council (CNR) with the objective of designing and developing
computerised tools to retrieve and restore textual information contained
in ancient documents, accessed as digital images. The first, LAperLA, concerns
old printed books, while the second, carried out in the framework of a
CNR special project that aims at preserving our cultural heritage, regards
old manuscripts. Both projects are aimed at implementing an integrated
system that improves the quality of the images and, at the same time, activates
optical character recognition (OCR) functions. Three CNR Institutes are
involved in this activity: the Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale (ILC-Pisa),
the Istituto di Elaborazione della Informazione (IEI-Pisa) and the Istituto
di Applicazioni
del Calcolo (IAC-Rome)."
The
Informedia (tm) DVL: http://www.informedia.cs.cmu.edu/info/im-desc.html
"The Informedia project will establish a large on-line digital video
library; intelligent, automatic mechanisms to populate the library and
allow for its full-content, knowledge based search and segment retrieval
via desktop computer and metropolitan area networks. Initially, the library
will be populated with video assets from WQED/Pittsburgh, Fairfax County
(VA) Public Schools, and the Open University (UK)."
D-Lib, Digital Library Research http://www.dlib.org/projects.html
ResearchIndex: The NECI Scientific
Literature Digital Library [Steve Lawrence, Kurt Bollacker, Lee Giles,
NEC Research Institute] http://www.researchindex.com/
"ResearchIndex is a scientific literature digital library that aims
to improve the dissemination and feedback of scientific literature, and
to provide improvements in functionality, usability, availability, cost,
comprehensiveness, efficiency, and timeliness. Rather than creating just
another digital library, ResearchIndex provides algorithms, techniques,
and software that can be used in other digitallibraries. ResearchIndex
indexes Postscript and PDF research articles on the Web, and provides the
following features."
Toward
on-line, worldwide access to Vatican Library materials http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/rd/mintz/mintzer.html
"The Vatican Library is an extraordinary repository of rare books
and manuscripts. Among
its 150,000 manuscripts are early copies of works by Aristotle,
Dante, Euclid, Homer, and
Virgil. Yet today access to the Library is limited. Because of
the time and cost required to
travel to Rome, only some 2000 scholars can afford to visit the
Library each year.
Through the Vatican Library Project, we are exploring the practicality
of providing digital
library services that extend access to portions of the Library's
collections to scholars
worldwide, as an early example of providing digital library services
that extend and
complement traditional library services. A core goal of the project
is to provide access via
the Internet to some of the Library's most valuable manuscripts,
printed books, and other
sources to a scholarly community around the world. A multinational,
multidisciplinary team
is addressing the technical challenges raised by that goal..."
Geographical Information Systems (GIS) WWW Resource List http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/home/giswww.html
Matrix
- The Center for Humane Arts, Letters, and Social Sciences Online http://www.matrix.msu.edu/innermatrix/ngsw.html
"The National Gallery of the Spoken Word (NGSW) will create a
significant, carefully organized on-line repository of spoken word
collections. A collaborative project among the humanities,
engineering , and library science, the gallery will provide the first
large-scale repository of its kind through the identification and
digital preservation of crucial materials in tape libraries throughout
the United States. It will pioneer developments in informati on
storage as it creates a recognized set of standards for
preservation and access, and constructs sophisticated and
integrated search mechanisms. Just as important, the collaborators
on this project identify a complex set of opportunities for research,
t eaching and outreach, because the most significant measure of
the value of the project will be the users it attracts. High school
teachers, college professors, government officials, journalists and
engaged citizens will therefore be crucial collaborators in the
creation of the NGSW."
Blue98
- Digital Libraries Initiative http://www.ccic.gov/pubs/blue98/dig_libraries.html