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Reports from DLF Initiatives
An index of reports that document the incremental progress of
those DLF initiatives that do not result in formal publications.
- Architectures
- Preservation
- Collections
- Standards and good practices
- Use and users
- Library roles and responsibilities
- Reports about the DLF
Reports are grouped below under the program area in which they
appear.
Practical implementation of FEDORA
- FEDORA. An Open
Source Digital Object Repository Management System
- Web pages describing practical implementation work
Open source software for libraries
- Draft report of
a meeting convened by the Digital Library Federation on October
5-6, 2001 in Washington DC to consider Open Source Software for
Libraries (October, 2001)
- Report of a meeting convened in October 2001 by the DLF to
consider how to assess various claims made for open-source
software (OSS) and, if appropriate, to identify steps to move OSS
activity into the mainstream of digital library development in a
manner that might appeal to all sectors of the library
community.
Open Archives Initiative
- A New Approach to
Finding Research Materials on the Web (July 2000)
- by Priscilla Caplan - describes the potential benefits to
libraries and their users of the Open Archives Initiative and the
Internet gateways that may be constructed with it.
- The Open Archives
Initiative and Digital Libraries (January 2001)
- by Daniel Greenstein - introduces the OAI and supplies a
brief history of the DLF's involvement with it as an
organization.
- DLF Evaluation of
the Open Archives Initiative (January 2001)
- by Daniel Greenstein - describes the work the DLF is
undertaking in support of the development of a small number of
Internet gateways through which users will access distributed
digital library holdings as if they were part of a single uniform
collection.
Tools for electronic publishing
- Tools for Academic
Electronic Publishing (March 2001)
- by Maria Bonn - a discussion paper presented to a meeting of
librarians and scholarly publishers to explore possible shared
technical developments.
Reference linking
- First Workshop
on Linkage from Citations to Electronic Journal
Literature (March 1999)
- by staff at NISO. Report of a one day invitational workshop
held on February 11, 1999.
- Report of the
Second Workshop on Linkage from Citations to Journal
Literature (July 1999)
- by staff at NISO. Report of a one-day invitational workshop
held on June 9, 1999.
- NISO/DLF/CrossRef Workshop on
Localization in Reference Linking (August 2000)
- by staff at NISO. Report of a one-day invitational workshop
held on July 24, 2000.
Digital certificates and authentication
- Assessing
Shibboleth as a means of authenticating and authorizing access to
electronic scholarly publications. A DLF/CNI
workshop
- by Peter Brantley (NYU), D Greenstein (DLF), Clifford Lynch
(CNI). This document frames a review process initiated by DLF and
CNI.
- A Digital
Library Authentication and Authorization Architecture
(March 2000)
- Describing an architecture, protocol and operational model
for using X.509 digital certificates for authentication and a
directory service to serve user attributes to determine the level
of authorized access to licensed online materials. The model was
developed by the participants at a DLF-sponsored meeting January
19-20, 1999.
- Digital
Library Authentication and Authorization (March
2000)
- Describes the DLF initiative to develop an architecture,
protocol and operational model for using X.509 digital
certificates for authentication, etc.
- Digital
Certificate Infrastructure. Frequently Asked Questions
(1999)
- FAQ published jointly with the Corporation for Research and
Educational Networking about the use of digital certificates, and
targeted generally to senior campus administrators.(PDF
format)
Distributed finding aids
- Supporting Access to
Diverse and Distributed Finding Aids (July 1999)
- by John Price Wilkineport. Project that explores the means
and costs of searching encoded finding aids that are distributed
at different institutions.
Preservation of electronic scholarly journals
- Minimum criteria for an
archival repository of digital scholarly journals, version
1.2 (May 2000)
- by Daniel Greenstein and Deanna Marcum. Outlines minimum
criteria agreed at invitational workshops of librarians and
publishers respectively. The criteria serve as a touchstone for
the repositories being planned by projects involved in The Andrew
W. Mellon Foundation's e-journal archiving program.
- Website of The Andrew W.
Mellon Foundation's e-journal archiving program (from
February 2001)
- Numerous web-documents introducing the program and describing
its aims and giving details about the individual projects
including their successful grant applications and periodically
updated progress reports.
Archivists' toolkit
- Summary report
of a meeting held on February 4-5, 2002 to consider requirements
for am archivists' toolkit (March, 2002)
- by Brad Westbrook, reports on a meeting convened to evaluate
need for such a toolkit and to begin specifying requirements
Registry of digital reproductions of paper-based books and
serials
- Registry
of Archival Masters of Digital Monographs and Serials. Functional
Requirements (December, 2001)
- by Dale Flecker. Revised version of the registry's functional
specification so as to suit the registry for recording
information about born digital monograph and serial
publications
- Registry
of Digital Reproductions of Paper-Based Monographs and Serials.
Functional Requirements (December, 2001)
- by Dale Flecker. Revised version of the registry's functional
specification
- Report
on a meeting convened to evaluate possible implementation paths
for a registry of digital monographs and serials December
2001)
- by Daniel Greenstein, refines the functional requirement for
the registry and begins to outline an implementation path
- Registry of Digital
Reproductions of Paper-based Books and Serials (July
2001)
- by Dale Flecker and Daniel Greenstein. Introduces the DLF's
work developing a functional specification and business case for
such a registry and facilitating its development.
- More Access at
Less Cost: The Case for a Digital Registry (July
2001)
- by Gerald George. Making a case for and explaining the
benefit to libraries of a registry of digital reproductions of
paper-based books and serials.
- Registry of
Digital Reproductions of Paper-based Books and Serials.Functional
requirements (July 2001)
- by Dale Flecker. Functional specification for a registry of
digital reproductions of paper-based books and serials.
- Draft
report (April 2001)
- by Daniel Greenstein. Meeting held on 11 April 2001 to
consider the potential uses of a service that registers digitized
books and journals and to consider implementation .
The Academic Image Cooperative
- The Academic Image
Cooperative (2000)
- by Daniel Greenstein. Introduces the DLF's work on this
prototype service for aggregating and distributing
curriculum-based digital images for courses in art history and
other humanities disciplines.
- Final Report of
the AIC as submitted to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
(August 2000)
- by Daniel Greenstein. Traces the progress of the AIC from its
initial conception through the deveolopment of collection,
technical, and image documentation standards, service
specifications, and business plan.
- The AIC Draft
Collection Strategy and Development Framework (April
2000)
- by Daniel Greenstein. Resulting from a review of the AIC's
progress during the period 1/99-2/00, the document outlines a
collection strategy and development framework that may sustain
the initiative in the longer term.
- AIC Brochure
(January 2000)
- by Rebecca Graham. This brief document outlines the AIC's
vision and was developed to be circulated at conferences and
other professional gatherings where the prototype was
demonstrated. (PDF format)
- Academic
Image Cooperative (June 1999)
- Reports on initial meetings held January and May 1999.
Shared cataloguing tool for visual resources
- Towards a
Shared Cataloguing Tool for VR Collections (December
2000)
- by Daniel Greenstein. Discussion paper used to launch an
investigation into the functional requirements of and business
case for a shared catalogue of or visual resource
descriptions.
- Draft
report (February 2001)
- Meeting to explore possibilities for developing a shared VR
cataloguing service. Report on an initial meeting to consider the
development of such a tool/service.
- Shared
Cataloguing Tool for Visual Resources (April 2001)
- by Max Marmor and Sherman Clarke. Report of a focus group
meeting on the functional requirements developed by the DLF for a
shared cataloguing tool for visual resources convened at ARLIS/NA
Annual Conference, Getty Research Institute on April 1,
2001.
Strategies for developing digital collections
- Strategies for
developing sustainable and scaleable digital library
collections (May 2000)
- by Daniel Greenstein. Document outlining a DLF initiative
that aims to assemble, review, and document practices adopted by
libraries in developing their digital collections. The initiative
resulted in several printed publications of the DLF.
Social science data
- Digital
Library Federation Workshop on Social Science Data
Archives (Feburary 1999)
- Reports on a meeting convened by the DLF on the state of the
art of digital libraries in the social sciences to explore
current problems and emerging solutions in three areas:
facilities for users to discover and retrieve relevant and
related data sets; means for users to interpret and evaluate the
comparability of data sets; and tools for methods of data
extraction and analysis.
Developing good collections
- Framework of
Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections (November,
2001)
- by the the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).
Develops a framework for considering and promoting standards and
good practices as may be adopted by the library community to
guide the development of good (that is persistent and
interoperable) digital collections. The DLF has endorsed the
framework.
Benchmarking digital reproductions of printed books and
serials
- Draft
benchmark functions of digital masters (March, 2002)
- identifies the minimum-level functionality that should be
required of a digital master, for example, as would determine
what metadata ought to be supplied for the digital master. The
draft is being reviewed by the DLF with a view to its
endorsement.
- Benchmark for
digital reproductions of monographs and serials. As endorsed by
the DLF (January, 2002)
- Draft benchmark for
digital reproductions of printed books and serial
publications (July 2001)
- by Daniel Greenstein. Document recommending a minimum
benchmark for digital reproductions of printed book and serial
publications and outlining the importance, rationale, and
implications of such a benchmark.
- Report of a
meeting of the DLF on preservation reformatting practices
(July 2001)
- by Daniel Greenstein. Report of a meeting at which current
practices were analyzed and benchmarks recommended.
Assessing image quality
- Report Imaging
Practitioners Meeting on 30 March 2001 (May 2001)
- by Stephen Chapman. How the quality of digital imaging
systems and digital images may be fairly evaluated.
Technical, administrative, and structural metadata
- The Making of America,
Part 2
- Introducing work, supported by the DLF to organize and
develop community practices for creating and encoding the
digitized versions of primary sources and enabling readers to
link seamlessly to these digitized surrogates directly from the
finding aid descriptions of them. The MOA2 project received
substantial implementation and other support from the National
Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation.
- Structural,
technical, and administrative metadata standards
(December 2000)
- by Jerome McDonough. A discussion document used to initiative
discussion that led to the development of the METS standard.
- Report of the Making of
America II DTD DLF Workshop (March 2000)
- by Jerome McDonough. Report on a meeting convened at NYU in
February 2001 to review experience with MOA2 DTD and to recommend
changes. The report recommended the development of a new DTD,
METS.(PDF format)
- Metadata
Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS)
- Official web site maintained by the Library of Congress, the
website supplies overview, tutorial, schema and documentation for
the use of the METS standard that developed out of a
DLF-supported initiative.
Licensing commercial content
- Liblicense:
Licensing Digital Information
- A resource for librarians maintained at Yale University and
including the CLIR/DLF Model License.
TEI in Libraries
- TEI Text Encoding in
Libraries
- Draft Guidelines for Best Encoding Practices. Version 1.0
(July 30, 1999) Perry Willetts. Guidelines growing out of a
workshop convened to explore the use of the Text Encoding
Initiative (TEI) and XML in libraries. They make recommendations
pertaining to the application of the TEI Guidelines and
particularly "best practices" for the encoding of electronic
texts developed for different purposes. The guidelines have been
endorsed and are in use by leading text centers in the US and
Europe.
- TEI
and XML in Digital Libraries
- Report of a Two-Day Meeting held June 30 - July 1, 1998 at
the Library of Congress (1998) by Lee Ellen Friedland and John
Price-Wilkin. Report on the meeting that framed work on the
guidelines indicated above.
Archival authority control
- Developing a Standard
for Recording Contextual Information for Archival and Manuscript
Materials (December 1998)
- Report of a meeting at Yale University, New Haven,
Connecticut 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.
Methods for assessing use and usability of online collections
and services
- Usage, Usability, and User
support (April 200)
- by Daniel Greenstein. Report of a discussion convened at the
DLF Forum on 2 April 2000 to frame a DLF investigation into
methods for assessing the use and usability of online collections
and services.
Assessing changing patterns of library use
- How and Why Libraries are
Changing (January 2001)
- by Denise Troll. A discussion paper used to focus a DLF
initiative to investigate the extent and use of the scholarly
information landscape at universities and liberal arts colleges,
and the library's contributions to that landscape.
- Dimension and Use of the
Scholarly Information Environment (July 2001)
- by Lynn Dagar, Daniel Greenstein, Leigh Watson Healy.
Proposal outlining aims, goals, methods for the research that is
indicated above. (PDF format)
Digital library policies, organizations, and practices
- Draft report (May
2001)
- by D Greenstein, S Thorin, D Mckinney. Meeting held on 10
April in Washington DC to discuss preliminary results of a survey
issued by the DLF to its members. Meeting discussed results of a
survey that was used to help identify the institutional contexts
in which digital libraries are being developed and to create a
profile of the programs and initiatives at institutions that
comprise the Digital Library Federation (DLF).
- Digital Library Policies,
Organizations, and Practices (January 2001)
- by Daniel Greenstein and Suzanne Thorin. DLF survey
instrument used by the DLF to help identify the institutional
contexts in which digital libraries are being developed and to
create a profile of the programs and initiatives at institutions
that comprise the Digital Library Federation (DLF).
- Evaluation of the
Digital Library Federation, 1995-2001. Summary report
(January 2002)
- In June 2001 the Digital Library Federation (DLF) Steering
Committee approved the creation of a Review Panel to evaluate the
progress of the DLF in achieving its goals and to consider the
DLF's future. This document includes the Panel's report as
endorsed by the DLF Steering Committee at its meeting on November
14, 2001. The report explains why and how the evaluation was
conducted and outlines its principle recommendations. It also
supplies evidence submitted to the Review Panel in the course of
its work.
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