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Summer 2006, Billington Library

Library Newsletter

Jennifer Tate helps define digital libraries, Michael Frisbie explains the layout of the library Web site, interlibrary loan is explained, and news that a wireless network will soon be available to patrons is revealed

Accessing Digital Libraries: A Study Of Arl Members' Digital Projects, Chad Kahl, Sarah C. Williams

Faculty and Staff Publications – Milner Library

To ensure efficient access to and integrated searching capabilities for their institution's new digital library projects, the authors studied Web sites of the Association of Research Libraries' (ARL) 111 academic, English-language libraries. Data were gathered on 1117 digital projects, noting library Web site and project access, metadata, and project types.

Körperlich Gesunde Tage, Richard Hacken

Faculty Publications

A German-language report of the 2006 German librarian's convention in Dresden.

Digital Collection Management Through The Library Catalog, Michaela Brenner, Thomas W. Larsen, Claudia Weston

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

Digitization has bestowed upon librarians and archivists of the late 20th and early 21st centuries the opportunity to reexamine how they access their collections. It draws these two traditional groups together with IT specialists in order to collaborate on this new great challenge. In this paper, the authors offer a strategy for adapting a library system to traditional archival practice.

The Semantic And Syntactic Model Of Metadata, Jian Qin, Javier Calzada Prado

School of Information Studies - Faculty Scholarship

As more information becomes “born digital”, metadata creation is increasingly becoming part of the information creation process. Current metadata schemes inherit much of the library cataloging tradition, which has shown limitations on representing “born digital” type of resources. Through analysis of issues of metadata schemes and review of metadata research and projects, the authors propose an ontology-based approach to building a modular metadata model in which semantics and syntax may be integrated to suit the needs for representing “born digital” resources. The authors use an learning object ontology as an example to demonstrate how the semantics and syntax may be …

The Oregon Sustainable Community Digital Library: Built To Fill A Need, Rose M. Jackson, Gary W. Markham

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

The article focuses on the launching of the Oregon Sustainable Community Digital Library (OSCDL) at the Portland State University Library in Portland, Oregon. The digital library is created to be a central repository for an access of historical planning documents within the area. The collaboration among the university, library, state and municipal agencies in this common goal has made the project more significant. Making the digitalization of vital planning reports and images from the 1960s through 1990s has been the latest goal of the project. This is in line of its vision in making information accessible regardless of physical location …

Yale Leaf Morphology Digitization And Network Project, David Stern

Faculty and Staff Publications – Milner Library

This article describes a digitization project inspired by the innovative leaf morphology classification work of a faculty member in the Geology and Geophysics Department and the Peabody Museum at Yale University. We began our initiative by scanning the Flora Fossilis Arctica, a 7-volume fossil leaf identification tool covering various geological areas, published between 1868 and 1883. This classic paleobotany resource was digitized, creating tiff, pdf, and searchable pdf files. We are now converting the searchable pdf files into ASCII text, enhancing the raw data with metadata elements, placing this material on the web for searching and display; and linking this …

South Carolina Goes Digital: The Creation And Development Of Usc’S Digital Activities Department, Kate F. Boyd, Douglas King

Faculty and Staff Publications

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss the University of South Carolina's Digital Activities Department's history and development.

Design/methodology/approach – This article recounts the development of the Digital Activities Department and examines local policies and procedures. In addition, the article discusses the fundamental issues of choosing a digital repository, creating metadata, and scanning images. The authors take a practical, in-depth approach in discussing their experiences.

Findings – After just a few years, the Library has launched the department and successfully provided online access to a growing number of digital collections. Collaboration has been the key element in …