DLF Aquifer is a Digital Library Federation initiative. Our purpose is to promote effective use of distributed digital library content for teaching, learning, and research in the area of American culture and life. We support scholarly discovery and access by:

• Developing schemas, protocols and communities of practice to make digital content available to scholars and students where they do their work
• Developing the best possible systems for finding, identifying and using digital resources in context by
  • promoting digital library best practices and
  • developing tools and services to improve digital resource access and use
    

Learn More about DLF Aquifer

• DLF Aquifer has published the report Future Directions in Metadata Remediation for Metadata Aggregators, which identifies and evaluates tools that can be used to normalize and enhance metadata, with a grant from The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation
• DLF Aquifer is engaged in DLF Aquifer Development for Interoperability Across Scholarly Repositories: American Social History Online with a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Learn more from the First Year Report and the Executive Summary.
• From the Aquifer wiki
• From the Aquifer blogs
  • Aquifer (Group)
  • Kat Hagedorn, data analyst
  • Susan Harum, business analyst
  • Chick Markley, systems architect
• From the SourceForge project page
• Status update to DLF Board, November 2007
• Status update to DLF Board, April 2007
• Status update to DLF Board, October 2006
• DLF Aquifer Operations Plan
• DLF Aquifer Asset Actions Experiment
• DLF Aquifer: Tapping New Sources for Scholarship