Digital libraries: An overview

Journal of Academic Librarianship

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 385-393

  Schwartz, Candy ^a  

^a SIMMONS COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 0042184041     PISSN: 00991333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0099-1333(00)00159-2     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. Candy Schwartz, "LIS 530Z, Digital Libraries: Definitions" (January 28,2000). Available: http://web.simmons.edu/~schwartz/530-defs.html (August 25, 2000).
2. Digital Library Federation, "A Working Definition of Digital Library" (April 21, 1999). Available: http://www.clir.org/diglib/dldefinition.htm (August 25, 2000).
3. Nabil R. Adam & Yelena Yesha, "Announcement and Call for Papers: International Journal of Digital Libraries-JODL" (1996). Available: http://www.springer-ny.com/compsci/ijodl.htm (August 25, 2000).
4. Stephen Pinfield, Jonathon Eaton, Catherine Edwards, Rosemary Russell, Astrid Wissenburg, & Peter Wynne, "Realizing the Hybrid Library," D-Lib Magazine 4(9) (1998). Available: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/october98/10pinfield.html. Pinfield et al. quote Chris Rusbridge, "Towards the Hybrid Library," D-Lib Magazine, 4(7) (1998). Available: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july98/rusbridge/07rusbridge.html (August 25, 2000).
5. Stephen Pinfield, Jonathon Eaton, Catherine Edwards, Rosemary Russell, Astrid Wissenburg, & Peter Wynne, "Realizing the Hybrid Library," D-Lib Magazine 4(9) (1998). Available: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/october98/10pinfield.html. Pinfield et al. quote Chris Rusbridge, "Towards the Hybrid Library," D-Lib Magazine, 4(7) (1998). Available: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july98/rusbridge/07rusbridge.html (August 25, 2000).
6. Digital Libraries Initiative Phase One. (1999, April 29). Available: http://www.dli2.nsf.gov/dlione/ (August 25, 2000).
7. Clifford Lynch, "Canonicalization: A Fundamental Tool to Facilitate Preservation and Management of Digital Information," D-Lib Magazine 5(9) (1999). Available: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september99/09lynch.html (August 25, 2000).
8. A good summary of the handles system can be found in William Y. Arms, "Key Concepts in the Architecture of the Digital Library," D-Lib Magazine 1(1) (1995). Available: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/July95/07arms.html (August 25, 2000).
9. See, for instance, metadata types discussed in Murtha Baca, editor, Introduction to Metadata: Pathways to Digital Information (Los Angeles, CA: J. Paul Getty Trust, 1998).
10. Nomadic Digital Libraries, a recent project of the Cornell Digital Library Research Group, is concerned in part with synchronizing personal data and digital library data to create personalized information spaces that are "responsive to an individual's current environment, including differing computing devices, communications capabilities, and information needs [italics mine]." Nomadic digital libraries: Proposal from Cornell University to Intel Corporation (September 20, 1999). Available: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/wya/nomad/proposal.html (August 25, 2000).
11. Laura Reiner's Web site on Adaptive & Assistive Technology in Libraries offers a glimpse at the world of devices that may be at the user end of a digital library
12. Several Web sites provide excellent collections of resource links on copyright in the library context, including texts of legal documents as well as explanations in lay terms. A few of the best are ARL's Copyright and Intellectual Property page
13. Ann Peterson Bishop, "Working Towards an Understanding of Digital Library Use," D-Lib Magazine, 1 (October 1995). Available: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/october95/10bishop.html (August 25, 2000).
14. th Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing, held in 1998, had the theme "Successes and Failures of Digital Libraries" (the proceedings were published in mid-2000: Susan Harum & Michael Twidale (Eds.), Successes and Failures of Digital Libraries, Urbana, IL: Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2000).
15. Paul Kantor, "Dealing with Complex Evaluations of Digital Libraries" [Abstract for a presentation at a Workshop on Digital Library Metrics, June 27, 1998]. Available http://www.dlib.org/metrics/public/6-98-workshop/presentations.html (August 25, 2000).
16. Ronald J. Heckart discusses the importance of paying attention to tools developed for user interaction in e-commerce settings in "Imagining the Digital Library in a Commercialized Internet," Journal of Academic Librarianship 25 (1999): 274-280.
17. Distributed search across multiple databases using Z39.50 can be seen in projects such as COPAC
18. For example, the School of Information Management and Systems at University California, Berkeley, supports a research project on Search Support for Unfamiliar Metadata Vocabularies