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General digital library information resources

Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE
Building digital collections and services while providing information and support to digital library developers worldwide, the SunSITE is an important resource with a variety of useful links to third-party public domain Internet resources organized under relevant categories. Berkeley University. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/

RLG DigiNews
Kenney, Anne R. and Oya Y. Rieger, eds. A digital preservation newsletter produced by the Research Libraries Group and funded in part by the Council on Library and Information Resources. Cornell University Library. 2000. http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/diginews4-3.html

Metadata

Administrative Metadata for Digital Still Images
Presents a data dictionary of administrative metadata elements for digital still images. Administrative metadata refers to information that supports the management of digital objects over time. Data elements in this document apply inclusively to all digital image formats, regardless of whether they are used for archival or delivery images. Harvard University Library. 2000. http://preserve.harvard.edu/resources/digitization/ImageMetadata.pdf

Announcement of Draft Interim Guidelines for Cataloging Electronic Resources
Establishes an interim set of guidelines to be used for cataloging electronic resources in the Library of Congress based on a common conceptual context and a common terminology. The intent of the guidelines is to apply to resources of divergent character produced under varying circumstances and managed by different entities, a set of conventions for bibliographic control that will enable generalized, standard practice to the extent judged practicable in a diverse, dynamic environment The guidelines include policies on when to use multiple records and when to use a single record, conventions developed especially for the single-record technique, directions for indicating the existence of other physical formats, directions related to electronic location, directions relating to collocating records and linking them, and directions relating to identifying records related to specific projects. Library of Congress. 1997. http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/elec_res.html

Developing a standard for recording contextual information for archival and manuscript materials
Report of a meeting at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut (December 1998) to discuss the establishment of an international collaborative project to advance the definition and implementation of a methodology for recording information about the contexts in which archival records, personal papers, and similar materials have been created and used. DLF. 1998. https://www.diglib.org/standards/aayalefr.htm

Dublin Core Schema for The University of Chicago Digital Library
Application of the Dublin Core for the University of Chicago's digital library. University of Chicago. 2000. http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/dldc/reports/dc-schema.txt

Dublin Core Schema for the University of Chicago Digital Library
Formal description of the schema. University of Chicago. http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/dldc/reports/dc-schema.txt

Guidelines for Use of Dublin Core in University of Chicago Library Projects
Suppling general principles, the University of Chicago's interpretation and use for digitized surrogates, explanation of specific DC elements, the University of Chicago's extensions to the Dublin Core and an authority list for DC.Type and examples of use. University of Chicago. 1999. http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/dldc/reports/dcguidelines.html

Library of Congress Digital Repository Development Core Metadata Elements
Work in Progrss: papers, tables and glossaries relating to discussions of metadata for managing digital content and associated developments at the Library of Congress 1995 to present (January 2000). Library of Congress. 2000. http://lcweb.loc.gov/standards/metadata.html

RLG Working Group on Preservation Issues of Metadata Final Report
A significant component of creating and managing digital collections is ensuring that the information essential to their continued use is preserved in an accessible form. This report, by the Working Group on Preservation Issues of Metadata represents a first step in addressing this issue and identifies the descriptive data elements that should be associated with digital master files that have preservation-based intent. RLG Working Group. 1998. http://www.rlg.org/preserv/presmeta.html

Preservation Metadata for Digital Images
Chapman, Stephen. Links to relevant information resources. President and Fellows of Harvard College. 2000. http://preserve.harvard.edu/bibliographies/imagemetadata.html

Systems of Knowledge Organization for Digital Libraries: Beyond Traditional
Hodge, Gail. Provides an overview of systems of knowledge organization and pertinent examples of their application in a digital library environment. CLIR. 2000. http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub91abst.html

Metadata
Wendler, Robin. For information about standards and best-practice guidance, creating data related to access and description of digital materials and for managing digital collections. Harvard University. 1999. http://hul.harvard.edu/ldi/html/metadata.html

Mission and organization of digital libraries

Digital Library Production Service Goals, 1999-2000
Describing the DLPS's focus on on sustainability/scalability, integration, and quantification, and the definition of benchmark practices. Univesity of Michigan Library. 1999. http://www.umdl.umich.edu/goals1999-2000.pdf

Organization of the Digital Library Development Center
Describes the Center's mission and organization. University of Chicago. http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/dldc/reports/dldcorg.html

Report of the Task Group on Intellectual Access for the Digital Library
Report of a Task Group appointed in 1998 by the Director of the University of Chicago's Library to establishing "guiding principles and goals for providing intellectual access that will aid the evolution of consistent decision-making and coordinated procedures throughout the University of Chicago. 1999. http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/dldc/reports/tgiareport.html

Report of the Task Group on Retrospective Digitization Report
Report of a Task Group appointed in 1998 by the Director of the University of Chicago's Library to consider the role of retrospective digitization and to recommend principles for a retrospective digitization program that supports the Library's mission. University of Chicago. 1999. http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/dldc/reports/tgrdreport.html

The Digital Library Program at Indiana University
Includes information about mission, organization, etc. Indiana University. 1998. http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/information/techdocs/

White Paper on the Reference Presence in Digital Library Initiatives
Position paper on the role of reference staff in digital library initaitives. Unviersity of Chicago. 2000. http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/dldc/reports/cic-white-paper-0200.txt

University of Texas at Austin General Libraries Digital Library Collection Development Framework
Dillon, Dennis. Library's digital collection development framework. University of Texas Austin General Libraries. 1999. http://www.lib.utexas.edu/cird/Policies/Subjects/framework.html

Carnegie Mellon University Library. Digital Library Plan 2000-2007
St. Clair, Gloriana. Carnegie Mellon University Library strategic plan for achieving a digital future. This report covers all aspects of the transition from case studies of technology, user interface, costs and implementation timetables. Carnegie Mellon University Library. 1999. http://www.library.cmu.edu/Libraries/digitallibrary.pdf

Report of the Committee on Electronic Resources
Weissman, Ed (Chair). Result of two years' deliberations and demonstrations and offering the Committee on Electronic Resources' view of the issues that confront the library as it moves toward large-scale digital access. Cornell University Library. 1996. http://www.library.cornell.edu/DLWG/CERREPOR.htm

Scholarly communications

A Report on the PEAK Experiment: Context and Design, in DLib Magazine
Bonn, Maria, and Wendy Lougee, Jeffrey Mackie-Mason, and Juan Riveros. 1999. http://www.dlib.org/

Scholarly Journals in the Late Twentieth Century, in Library Collections, Acquisitions, and Technical Services (forthcoming)
Lougee, Wendy P.. Preprint copy available in MS-Word format. 2000. http://www-personal.umich.edu/~wlougee/scholarly_journals.doc

A Report on the PEAK Experiment Usage and Economic Behavior, in DLib Magazine
Mackie-Mason, Jeffrey, and Juan Riveros, Maria Bonn and Wendy Lougee. Reports preliminary results of the University of Michigan's field trial in electronic access pricing and bundling "Pricing Electronic Access to Knowledge" (PEAK). In PEAK Michigan provided a host service consisting of roughly three and a half years of content (January 1995 -- June 1999) of approximately 1200 Elsevier Science scholarly journals. Participating institutions had access to this content for over 18 months, after which the project ended and access through Michigan's system ceased. Michigan provided Internet-based delivery to over 340,000 authorized users at twelve campuses and commercial research facilities across the U.S. The full content of the 1200 journals was received, catalogued, indexed and delivered in real time. The research team investigated the effects of product bundling and pricing structures for electronic access. 1999. http://www.dlib.org/

Publishing Dissertations at the University of Michigan in XML: A Report of a Study
Stoeffler, Matt. Report of a two-year investigation at the University of Michigan into the feasibility of publishing electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) in XML using a document type definition (DTD) derived from the Text Encoding Initiative's TEI Lite DTD. Univesity of Michigan Library. 1999. http://www.umdl.umich.edu/um_diss_study.html

User needs analysis

Final Report of the American Memory User Evaluation
Report of field study of American Memory in various locations around the nation. Prepared by the Library of Congress American Memory User Evaluation Team. 1993. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/usereval.html


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