Library Projects
INTRODUCTION
This section includes significant and special library projects related to Internet
resources, such as digital library projects.
| TITLE: |
The Alexandria Project |
| DESCRIPTION: |
This project is to explore "a variety of problems
related to a distributed digital library for geographically-referenced
information."--Title screen. |
| HOST: |
University of California, Santa Barbara |
| E-MAIL: |
webmaster@alexandria.sdc.ucsb.edu |
| KEYWORDS: |
digital library project |
| TITLE: |
Anderson, Greg, Rebecca Lasher, and
Vicky Reich. The Computer Science Technical Report (CS-TR) Project: A Pioneering Digital
Library Project Viewed from a Library Perspective |
| DESCRIPTION: |
"In 1992, the Advanced Research Projects Agency
(ARPA)
awarded a three-year grant to the Corporation for National Research Initiatives
(CNRI) and
five research universities to build a large-scale, distributed digital library of computer
science technical reports produced by project participants. The participating universities
were Carnegie Mellon University, Cornell University, the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Stanford University, and the University of California at Berkeley. CNRI served
as a collaborator and agent for the project. The Computer Science Technical Reports
(CS-TR) project was one of the earliest sustained investigations into the system
engineering of digital libraries, and it pioneered multi-institutional collaborative
research in this increasingly important area. The CS-TR project investigated a broad
spectrum of technical, social, and legal issues related to the development and
implementation a very large, heterogeneous, distributed digital library. The
CS-TR project
created a prototype digital library service that included a large collection of technical
reports; an exchange format for bibliographic data (RFC 1357, which was superseded by RFC
1807); a distributed delivery protocol (Dienst) for information on the World-Wide Web; an
information awareness service (Sift); an approach to interoperability (the Kahn and
Wilensky paper); and a Web catalog tool (Lycos)." |
| KEYWORDS: |
digital library project |
| TITLE: |
CATRIONA II |
| DESCRIPTION: |
"The CATRIONA II project is an investigation of
approaches to the management and creation of institutional and departmental electronic
resources in Scottish universities; of the existence of quality, locally-created,
electronic resources on individual campuses and their value both within and beyond the
local institution; of intentions regarding the provision of campus-wide and external
access to such resources; and of associated questions relating to institutional policy,
strategy, organisational infrastructure, and approaches to resource delivery and
maintenance, with particular reference to the role of the library. A subsidiary aim would
be to establish guidelines for best practice in the above areas."--Introduction. |
| KEYWORDS: |
electronic library project |
| TITLE: |
CORC--Cooperative Online
Resource Catalog |
| CREATOR: |
OCLC. |
| DESCRIPTION: |
"CORC is a research project exploring the cooperative
creation and sharing of metadata by libraries ... and CORC is designed to help both
libraries and OCLC to move more quickly in coping with the huge amount of material
becoming available on the World Wide Web."--Titls screen. |
| KEYWORDS: |
internet resources catalog |
| TITLE: |
Description of the Nordic Metadata
project: Cataloguing, Indexing and Retrieval of Digital Documents |
| DESCRIPTION: |
The goal of the project is to design a shared metadata
creation and utilisation environment for digital documents. It emphasizes the importance
of the participation of libraries in the process of cataloging the metadata/Internet
resources. Several formats are evaluated. MARC format is one of them. A complex and
interesting project in Scandinavia. |
| KEYWORDS: |
cataloging internet resources, organizing internet resources |
| TITLE: |
Digital Library Projects |
| DESCRIPTION: |
Includes the Digital Imaging Initiative and the Digital
Libraries Initiative projects currently. "The Digital Imaging Initiative at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library is exploring the use of multimedia and
network technology to promote preservation of the Library's unique collections and provide
widespread access to these collections."--Source. "The Digital Libraries
Initiative (DLI) project at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is developing
the information infrastructure to effectively search technical documents on the
Internet."--Source. |
| E-MAIL: |
Susan Harum |
| KEYWORDS: |
digital library projects |
| TITLE: |
Digital Library Project |
| DESCRIPTION: |
"The project's goal is to develop the technologies for
intelligent access to massive, distributed collections comprising multiple terabyte
databases of photographs, satellite images, videos, maps, full text documents, and
"multivalent" documents."--Title screen. |
| HOST: |
University of Berkeley |
| KEYWORDS: |
digital library project |
| TITLE: |
Digital Library Project |
| DESCRIPTION: |
"The content will emphasize a diverse collection,
focused on earth and space sciences, which can satisfy the needs of many different types
of users. The content will be supplied by publishers, although the project will eventually
allow all users to publish their work. A related project, the Journal Storage Project
(JSTOR), will digitize and make available all issues from the first publication through
1990 of ten economics journals to the NSF-UMDL."--About our project. |
| HOST: |
University of Michigan |
| KEYWORDS: |
digital library project |
| TITLE: |
Digital Projects by NLC |
| DESCRIPTION: |
"The National Library of Canada is engaged in
digitization activities in order to create a collection of electronic resources and
research tools to support the study of Canada and Canadians and ensure a strong Canadian
presence on the information highway."--Title screen. |
| E-MAIL: |
Doug.Hodges@nlc-bnc.ca |
| KEYWORDS: |
digital library project |
| TITLE: |
Dublin
Core Metadata |
| CREATOR: |
Dublin Core Metadata Initiative. |
| DESCRIPTION: |
"The Dublin Core is a 15-element metadata element set
intended to facilitate discovery of electronic resources. Originally conceived for
author-generated description of Web resources, it has also attracted the attention of
formal resource description communities such as museums and libraries."--Title
screen. |
| E-MAIL: |
dc@oclc.org |
| KEYWORDS: |
cataloging electronic resources, meta-data |
| TITLE: |
Informedia |
| DESCRIPTION: |
"Informedia is a research initiative at Carnegie Mellon
University funded by the NSF, DARPA, NASA and others, that studies how multimedia Digital
Libraries can be established and used. Informedia is building a multimedia library that
will contain over a thousand hours of digital video, and audio, images, text and other
related materials. The Informedia library is populated by automatically encoding,
segmenting and indexing data. Research in the areas of speech recognition, image
understanding and natural language processing supports the automatic preparation of
diverse media for full-content and knowledge-based search and retrieval."--Title
screen. |
| HOST: |
Carnegie Mellon University |
| KEYWORDS: |
digital library project |
| TITLE: |
InFoPeople
Project |
| DESCRIPTION: |
The InFoPeople Project provides points of public access to
the Internet in public libraries throughout California. It provides information and links
to Internet service providers, library resources, California job, government, and
directory, etc. |
| E-MAIL: |
ipweb@sunsite.berkeley.edu |
| KEYWORDS: |
internet access project, library project |
| TITLE: |
Institute on Digital Library Development |
| DESCRIPTION: |
"A five-day workshop to retool librarians, archivists,
and museum professionals with the skills they need to use existing tools and proven
techniques to place library content on the Internet.... The Institute was supported by a
grant from the U.S. Department of Education, Higher Education Act Title II-B grant and the
UC Berkeley Library."--Title screen. |
| E-MAIL: |
manager@sunsite.berkeley.edu |
| KEYWORDS: |
digital library, librarians and internet |
| TITLE: |
Internet Library of Early Journals |
| DESCRIPTION: |
"A joint project by the Universities of Birmingham,
Leeds, Manchester and Oxford, conducted under the auspices of the eLib (Electronic
Libraries) Programme. It aims to digitise substantial runs of 18th and 19th century
journals, and make these images available on the Internet, together with their associated
bibliographic data."--What is ILEJ? |
| KEYWORDS: |
digital project, electronic journals,
victoriana, 18th
century, 19th century |
| TITLE: |
Project
Muse |
| DESCRIPTION: |
"In one of the first ventures of its kind, the Johns
Hopkins University Press and the Milton S. Eisenhower Library have joined forces to launch
Project Muse, an initiative enabling worldwide networked access to the full text of the
Press's 40 scholarly journals. Funded through 1997 by the National Endowment for the
Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Project Muse makes works of scholarship
more widely available within individual university communities by using online technology
to produce affordable electronic journals in the humanities, the social sciences, and
mathematics.... When a library subscribes to a Project Muse journal, that journal is made
available without passwords to the entire campus, not just to workstations at the
library." |
| E-MAIL: |
muse@muse.jhu.edu |
| KEYWORDS: |
digital project, library project |
| TITLE: |
Stanford University Digital Libraries Project |
| DESCRIPTION: |
"The Stanford Digital Libraries project is one
participant in the 4-year, $24 million Digital Library Initiative, started in 1994 and
supported by the NSF, DARPA, and NASA. In addition to the ties with the five other
universities that are part of the project, Stanford also has a large number of industrial
partners. Each university project has a different angle of the total project, with
Stanford focusing on interoperability. Our collection is primarily computing literature.
However, we also have a strong focus on networked information sources, meaning that the
vast array of topics found on the World Wide Web are accessible through our project as
well. At the heart of the project is the testbed running the "InfoBus" protocol,
which provides a uniform way to access a variety of services and information sources
through "proxies" acting as interpreters between the InfoBus protocol and the
native protocol."--Title screen. |
| KEYWORDS: |
digital project, digital library |
| TITLE: |
UT-LANIC: Latin Americanist Resources Pilot
Project |
| DESCRIPTION: |
Aims at providing access to academic databases and
information services throughout the Internet world, and to help Latin Americanists around
the world to access information on and from the region. Since it went online in 1992,
LANIC has become the most comprehensive and most frequently used information system for
Latin Americanists, and has achieved over 400,000 worldwide accesses per month. |
| KEYWORDS: |
latin america, electronic library project |
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