Documenting the Digital Library
Section 1

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Digital library architectures, systems, technologies and tools
  • Access management
  • Audio-visual data
  • Catalogues
  • General digital library architectures
  • Image systems
  • Interoperability
  • Library management systems
  • Naming and reference linking
  • Text management and analysis
  • User interfaces

Digital library architectures, systems, technologies and tools

Architectures (access management)

A Digital Library Authentication and Authorization Architecture

Describes 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. DLF. 2000. http://www.ucop.edu/irc/cdl/tasw/Authentication/Architecture-3_W95.pdf

Common Access Management

Provides information about the technical specifications and implementation of the access management service at Harvard University. Harvard University. 2000. http://hul.harvard.edu/ldi/resources/hul access.html

Enabling Access: A Report on a Workshop on Access Management

Arms, Caroline and Judith Klavans and Don Waters. The report addresses the issue of how to manage access to digital information that is sensitive, proprietary, or protected by copyright. CLIR. 1999. http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub79.html

Architectures (audio-visual data)

Digital Repository for Audio-Visual Preservation

Reports on the Library of Congress's audiovisual prototyping project that is developing a small-scale digital repository for audio and video materials. The project is a collaborative activity prototyping new approaches for the storage and maintenance of digitally reformatted and "born-digital" recorded sound and moving image collections and experiment with new ways to present them to researchers. The site contains links to project documentation including a requirements document and conceptual design for the repository. Library of Congress. 2000. http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/mopic/avprot/avprhome.html

Architectures (catalogues)

OLIVIA User Guide OLIVIA Version 1.2

User guide for OLIVIA - a software program developed at Harvard University Library which catalogers can use to enter data about their collections. The data entered into OLIVIA is stored in a more complex relational format than is allowed by standard flat-file MARC records. This data can, in turn, be exported to the Visual Information Access (VIA) system. VIA is a web-accessible union catalog of visual resources at Harvard and Radcliffe. OLIVIA is a client/server application. The client program is installed on each cataloger's desktop, and each client connects to a central server where the data is stored in a relational database. Access to the system requires a valid account (username and password). System administration services for OLIVIA are available from the Harvard University Library's Office for Information Systems. Also see OLIVIA to VIA map - Works Records (a data map that specifies how fields from the OLIVIA records populate fields in the public catalog - at http://hul.harvard.edu/ldi/resources/olivia-to-via_datamap.pdf) and INVIA Data Dictionary (lists each Olivia database table and the fields it contains - at http://hul.harvard.edu/ldi/resources/olivia-data-dictionary.pdf). Harvard University Library. 2000. http://hul.harvard.edu/ldi/resources/olivia_1.2.pdf

North Carolina State University School of Design Slide Projects

Pennell, Charley. Report on a prototype for demonstrating the Web's capabilities, both as a means of capturing remote cataloging effort and of effectively searching and displaying large scanned image collections at various resolutions. Focuses on intended use and design principles. North Carolina State University. 2000. http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/cataloging/DesignSlides/intro.htm

Architectures (general)

SunSITE Hardware and Software

Hardware and software spcecifications for the Berkeley Digital Library Sunsite. University of California at Berkeley. 1999. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Admin/server.html

Functional Requirements for the LDI Repository, Phase I

Coleman, Jim. This set of functional requirements rests on assumptions given a fuller general articulation in Towards an LDI Digital Repository (http://hul.harvard.edu/ldi/resources/ldirepository.pdf). The objective of this document is to develop a complete set of functional requirements for the services and facilities required in a Harvard University Library. 1999. http://hul.harvard.edu/ldi/resources/ldifunreq.pdf

Towards an LDI Digital Repository

Coleman, Jim. This document is meant to capture and provide some structure for the concepts, ideas, and questions arising out of recent discussions on a digital repository for the Library Digital Initiative of Harvard University Libraries. It attempts to establish some common definitions and understandings of a digital repository within the Harvard LDI context, to present a business and service model for levels of service that comprise the digital repository, to discuss the core level of service in some details and examine some specialized services that have been suggested in the past, and to suggest an initial implementation Harvard University Library. 1998. http://hul.harvard.edu/ldi/resources/ldirepository.pdf

The Making of America II Testbed Project: A Digital Library Service Model

Hurley, Bernard J. and John Price-Wilkin, Merrilee Proffitt, and Howard Besser. The publication defines a digital library service model that encapsulates the interaction of digital objects (including their metadata), tools, and services based on principles of object-oriented design. CLIR. 1999. http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub87abst.html

Just-in-time Conversion, Just-in-case Collections: Effectively leveraging rich document formats for the Worldwide Web

Price-Wilkin, John. The article is based on experience at the University of Michigan's Digital Library Production Service with dynamic generation of Web-specific derivatives from non-HTML University of Michigan Library, D-Lib Magazine. 1997. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/may97/michigan/05pricewilkin.html

Architectures (image systems)

About Image Services

Supplying technical documentation about the scalable system developed by the University of Michigan Library's Digital Library Production Service for providing online access to image collections. Information about the service, its architecture, and the image class University of Michigan Library's Digital Library Production Service. 1998. http://images.umdl.umich.edu/i/image/info/

Digital Imaging, Systems

Chapman, Stephen. Links to relevant information resources. President and Fellows of Harvard College. 2000. http://preserve.harvard.edu/bibliographies/digitalsystems.html

Access to Digital Image Collections: System Building and Image Processing, in Moving Theory into Practice: Digital Imaging for Libraries and Archives, Anne R. and Oya Y. Rieger, eds

Price-Wilkin, John. Research Libraries Group. 2000.

Recent Developments in Cultural Heritage Image Databases: Directions for User-Centered Design, in Library Trends 49:2, pp. 410-437

Stephenson, Christie. 1999.

Architectures (interoperability)

DFAS. The Distributed Finding Aid Search System, in D-Lib Magazine

EAD-encoded finding aids are proving to be a significant part of the metadata strategy of the emerging digital library. During 1998-99, the Digital Library Federation underwrote a project proposed by the University of Michigan and Harvard University to develop an automated system for distributed online searching of EAD-encoded finding aids. The participating institutions were, in addition to Michigan and Harvard, Columbia University, Indiana University, and Oxford University. The project, known as the Distributed Finding Aid Server (DFAS), was completed in July of 1999 with the publication of a final report. This article summarizes the project and discusses some of the major issues that were identified by it. 2000. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january00/01smith.html

Supporting Access to Diverse and Distributed Finding Aids: A Final Report to the Digital Library Federation on the Distributed Finding Aid Server Project

Price-Wilkin, John. On the means and costs of searching encoded finding aids that are distributed at different institutions. DLF. 1999. http://www.diglib.org/architectures/dfas.htm

Architectures (library management systems)

Library Systems: Current Developments and Future Directions

Healy, Leigh Watson. An overview of the state of the art for those concerned with the development of digital libraries and the role of library management systems in libraries today. It contrasts librarians' visions and strategies with the development philosophies of the systems vendors CLIR. 1998. http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub72.html

Architectures (naming and reference linking)

Handle Server

Description of the Library's experiments using "handles," one form of URN (May 1998). Library of Congress. 1998. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/award/docs/handle-server.html

Name Resolution Service (NRS) Technical Overview

Supplies a technical overview for the Name Resolution Service (NRS) developed by the Library Digital Initiative at Harvard University Library. The NRS is a comprehensive service for creating, maintaining, and resolving names, which are persistent, location-independent identifiers for network-accessible resources. Name resolution is the process of mapping from a given name to a URL that represents a particular instantiation Harvard University Library. 2000. http://hul.harvard.edu/ldi/resources/nrs-overview-public.html

Report of a workshop sponsored by NISO, NFAIS, DLF and the Society of Scholarly Publishers on linkage from citations to electronic journal literature

Reviews technical issues involved in reference linking. NISO. 1999. http://www.niso.org/linkrpt.html

Naming and Repository Services. An Introduction

Harvard University Library Office for for Information Systems. Detailed introduction to these services as supplied by the Office for Information Systems and including a useful gentle description of the importance and design of naming services, good practices, etc. Harvard University Library. http://hul.harvard.edu/ldi/resources/nrsdrsservice.pdf

Architectures (text management and analysis)

Scanning, Encoding, and Publishing

Descriptions of different technology used in the Electronic Text Research Center of the University of Minnnesota. University of Minnesota. 1999. http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub71.html

Textual Analysis Tools

Descriptions of different software used in the Electronic Text Research Center of the University of Minnesota. University of Minnesota. 1998. http://etrc.lib.umn.edu/textanal.htm

Turning Pages within a Digital Reproduction

One example of a solution to a problem found in many digitization projects--how to present a sequence of images considered a single item from a bibliographic viewpoint. (May 1998). Library of Congress. 1998. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/award/docs/page-turning.html

Campus-Wide Textual Analysis Server: Projects, Prospects, and Problems

Price-Wilkin, John. Describes two projects (at the University of Michigan and the University of Virginia, respectively) in which libraries serve as a central campus agency for the provision of networked, standards-conformant electronic text. Both efforts are framed in the belief that libraries must become the central campus provider of primary information in electronic formats. The University of Michigan and University of Virginia libraries are at different stages in their efforts. The underpinnings of the emerging University of Virginia effort are described, while statistics and anecdotes from the first eighteen months of use at Michigan University of Michigan library. 1992. http://jpw.umdl.umich.edu/pubs/waterloo.html

The Feasibility of Wide-area Textual Analysis Systems in Libraries: a Practical Analysis

Price-Wilkin, John. Discusses the textual and software resources necessary for the establishment of a generalized wide-area textual analysis system. A distinction is made between textual analytical systems and text retrieval systems. The necessity of using standards and open systems in implementing such systems is emphasized. The paper includes a review of critical characteristics of generalized analytical software. University of Michigan Library. 1994. http://jpw.umdl.umich.edu/pubs/dpc.html

Architectures (user interfaces)

MyLibrary: A Model for Implementing a User-centered, Customizable Interface to a Library's Collection of Information Resources

Lease Morgan, Eric. Describes all aspects of the MyLibrary a user-centered digital library interface - from the philosophy behind the system to the technology that is implemented in it. North Carolina State University Libraries. 1999. http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/development/mylibrary/about/paper/

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