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It is an in-depth annotated bibliography on digital library resources. The Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE builds digital collections and services while providing information and support to digital library developers worldwide. It covers information on all aspects of digital library. Centre for Digital Library Research at the University of Strathclyde brings together long-standing research interests in the digital information area. It has undertaken and undertaking verious digital library projects, details of which is available on the site. The DELOS network intends to conduct a joint program of activities aimed at integrating and coordinating the ongoing research activities of the major European teams working in Digital Library - related areas with the goal of developing the next generation Digital Library technologies. Digital Culture (DigiCULT) is an IST Support Measure to establish a regular technology watch for cultural and scientific heritage over the period of 30 months. The aim of the Centre is to provide a national focus for research into curation issues and to promote expertise and good practice, both national and international, for the management of all research outputs in digital format. It offers base level information on the use of digital imaging to convert and make accessible cultural heritage material. The aim of the DLib Competence Center is to provide specific user communities with access to advanced digital library technologies, services, expertise and knowledge which will allow them to take-up these technologies and services. Offers different courses related to digital library. Manuals on how to develop a digital library and digital content. It offers information about developing digital collections and managing networked information for the benefit of scholarship, education, and cultural progress. Provides information regarding digital library projects, conferences, full text of publications, funding etc. Provides links to excellent digital library resources. This has been developed by Mansfield University Library staff. It is like a Bible for the development of digital library. It gives detailed information about what is a digital library, what type of material one can digitize, how to go about it, etc. It is a wonderful source of information for beginners. It is available for download. Presently 3rd edition of this toolkit is available. It is tutorial on digital preservation and management. Library of Congress website, which provides information on digital preservation of electronic documents. DREI QuestionAuthority is a forum, where various individuals in the reference community post their thoughts on current issues in digital reference education and training. Provides list of resources on copyright, digitization, digital library, preservation, etc. Lists major cooperative projects, funding and coordinating agencies, and associated activities in digitallibrary research. An article about digital library. Explains what a digital library is, and present some key design issues involved in creating a digital library. This service will retrieve a Web page and automatically generate Dublin Core metadata, either as HTML <meta> tags or as RDF/XML, suitable for embedding in the <head>...</head> section of the page. This support effort is coordinated by the CDDL at IIM Kozhikode in collaboration with the Greenstone development team in order to ensure effective promotion and support for Greenstone in South Asia. i-DLR is a web portal for Digital Library education. It has been designed to support beginners in the field of Digital Library by providing a central repository of resources pertaining to Digital Library. The resources are organized into eight broad subject areas, representing the area of research and studies in the field of Digital Library. It is a collaborative effort by graduate students of the School of Information Science and Learning Technologies (SISLT) at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Currently it consists of 466 digital links, 29 introductory papers, 72 print resources, 304 glossary terms and 33 FAQs. Provides extensive links to different digital library resources and projects carried out at different countries. Aims at developing the theoretical and methodological knowledge essential to the long-term preservation of authentic records created and/or maintained in digital form. A very good article on Metadata. Provides in-depth analysis of metadata and also gives information about metadata standards and projects. This information package provides metadata and cataloging educators and trainers, students, and practitioners with a common set of metadata resources and tools. The METS schema is a standard for encoding descriptive, administrative, and structural metadata regarding objects within a digital library, expressed using the XML schema language of the World Wide Web Consortium. The standard is maintained in the Network Development and MARC Standards Office of the Library of Congress, and is being developed as an initiative of the Digital Library Federation. This project is developing a model that will facilitate the most efficient and effective means of metadata production by integrating human and automatic processes. Provides access to presentations done during NISSAT-NCSI workshop on Digital Libraries using Open Source softwares [EPA and GSDL] held between April 15-20, 2002 at Bangalore, India. Also provides links to other free of cost softwares. NITF uses the eXtensible Markup Language to define the content and structure of news articles. NEDCC is a nonprofit, regional conservation center in the United States. Its mission is to improve the preservation programs of libraries, archives, museums, and other historical and cultural organizations; to provide the highest quality services to institutions that cannot afford in-house conservation facilities or that require specialized expertise. OCKHAM Initiative seeks to promote the development of digital libraries via collaboration between librarians and digital library researchers. By promoting simple, open approaches and standards for digital library tools, services, and content, the gap between digital library development and the adoption of digital library systems by the traditional library community will be bridged. The Open Archives Initiative develops and promotes interoperability standards that aim to facilitate the efficient dissemination of content. The Open Archives Initiative has its roots in an effort to enhance access to e-print archives as a means of increasing the availability of scholarly communication. The handbook provides an internationally authoritative and practical guide to the subject of managing digital resources over time and the issues in sustaining access to them. SIMILE [Semantic Interoperability of Metadata and Information in unLike Environments] seeks to enhance inter-operability among digital assets, schemata/vocabularies/ontologies, metadata, and services. Provides an overview of a diverse set of more than thirty digital library aggregation services, organizes them into functional clusters and then evaluates them more fully from the perspective of an informed user. Most of the services under review rely wholly or partially on the Protocol for Metadata Harvesting of the Open Archives Initiative (OAI-PMH), although some of them predate its inception and a few use predominantly Z39.50 protocols. Provides very good resource material related to images and digitization. TEI is an international and interdisciplinary standard that helps libraries, museums, publishers, and individual scholars represent all kinds of literary and linguistic texts for online research and teaching, using an encoding scheme that is maximally expressive and minimally obsolescent. Here you can find all types of informatin related to Z39.50. It is an information retrieval protocol developed by NISO. Projects:
India: Archives of Indian Labour was constituted with the long-term objective to act as a specialised repository of records and voices of the workers, and contain textual, visual and oral records on labour in India. At present in total 8 special collections comprising 40,000 printed pages, 100 hours of taped interviews are stored in digital form. In addition several special reports and articles on labour history of India are also available on this digital library. This library has been developed using Greenstone open source software at V.V. Giri National Labour Institute, Noida. Registration is required to access the library. It is a digital library of books, which are free-to-read, searchable, predominantly in Indian languages, available to everyone over the Internet. Very soon it is expected that this portal would provide a gateway to Indian Digital Libraries in science, arts, culture, music, movies, traditional medicine, palm leaves and many more. This project is a collaboration between different Indian insitutes and Universities and Carnegie Mellon University under Universal Digital Library Project. This digital library developed by IIMK library holds documents on management, economics, sociology, etc and IIMK staff publications. The number of documents included are less as the library is in development stage. This is the digital repository of Theses and Dissertations of Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. You can search, browse and access theses and dissertaions from this collection. This repository has been developed to capture, disseminate and preserve research theses of Indian Institute of Science. IGNCA digital library contains digital images, audio and video recordings, animations, electronic books, etc related Indian arts and culture. This library has been developed by DRTC, which contains full text of papers/articles related to Indian Librarianship. Presently it contains full text papers submitted in DRTC seminars, papers submitted by LIS professionals and Students Theses/Dissertations. In future it is having plans to include conference proceedings of Indian LIS associations. Nalanda is the result of the ongoing Digital Library nitiative at National Institute of Technology, Calicut Library. Nalanda Project aims at a full-fledged Digital Library at NITC to cater to the increasing demand for information resources from the Campus User Community as well as from Remote Users from rest of the Country. Some resources are open to all, otherwise they are resistricted to NITC campus and their recognised users. At present, it is in evolving stage. Vidyanidhi is planning to develop repository for Indian doctoral thesis. At present it provides access to metadata of Indian thesis and Universities. Few full text thesis [ETDs] are presently available in its database. It started as a project in 2000 with support from NISSAT, Govt of India. Now with the support from Ford Foundation and Microsoft India it is evolving as a national initiative. It welecomes Universities and Researchers to participate in this programme. The project is based at Dept of Library and Information Science, Mysore University, Mysore, Karnataka.
International: It contains digital collection of University of California campuses. It is a collection of maps, prints and drawings, photographs and documents, rare early sound recordings from around the globe. It has been developed by British Library using its collections. Provides access to existing Colorado digital collections, links to related national collections, provide those interested in digitization information on scanning, creation of metadata, legal issues, etc., and provide a vehicle for distributing the strategic plan, guidelines developed by the Project participants, and general updates on the project. It is a collection of selected monographs with expired copyrights chosen from the mathematics field. DAREnet harvests all digital available material from the local repositories in Netherlands, making it searchable. But it limits the harvest to those objects that are full content available to everyone. It is a gateway to the international literature on the commons. This site contains a Working Paper Archive of author-submitted papers, a full-text Digital Library, and links to relevant reference sources on the study of the commons. DLESE is a geoscience community resource that supports teaching and learning about the Earth system. DLESE is funded by the National Science Foundation and is being built by a community of educators, students, and scientists to support Earth system education at all levels. It is a digital library of eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth century local and trade directories from England and Wales. The Digital South Asia Library provides digital materials for reference and research on South Asia to scholars, public officials, business leaders, and other users. Its collection include reference sources, books and journals, images, maps, statistics, etc. It contains full text articles presented in Electronic Publishing conference w.e.f 1997. Access to all the articles is given free of cost. The eScholarship Editions collection includes the full text of more than 1,400 books from academic presses on a range of topics, including art, science, history, music, religion, and fiction. Access is free to all. The EDL provides access to online resources worldwide. There are about 700 items in the collection, and regularly adding new ones, particularly those relevant to the Pacific region. It is a searchable digital archive of historical books developed by University of Michigan Library. It is having over 500 books of high quality in the field of history and will be adding 250 more by the end of 2003. Informedia project has pioneered new approaches for automated video and audio indexing, navigaiton, visualization, search and retrieval and embedded them in a system for use in education, information and entertainment environments. Provides descriptions of Canadian information resources created for the Web, including general digital collections, resources centred around a particular theme, and reference sources and databases. It is non-profit independent research library with collections documenting every aspect of the history and background of American culture from the colonial period to the end of ninteenth century. It offers multiple institutions a combination of new technologies for sharing information about primary resources of interest to scholars and researchers, and it provides researchers a publicly searchable web interface to a collection of freely available, difficult-to-access, academically-oriented resources related to politics and religion. Mind addresses the problems faced by users in terms of their ability to access and exploit the increasing number of Digital Libraries available internationally through networks, such as the Internet and the World Wide Web (WWW). It will assist users to: know where to search, how to query different media and how to combine information from diverse sources. Includes collection in the areas of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. NYPL Digital gallery will provide free and open online access to thousands of digital images from the collections of NYPL's Research Libraries. The purpose of the Open Video Project is to collect and make available a repository of digitized video content for the digital video, multimedia retrieval, digital library, and other research communities. It is a digital library of thesis and dissertations. Individuals and institutes can paricipate in it by making their thesis or disserations available to the network in electronic format. The New Zealand Digital Library project is a research programme at The University of Waikato whose aim is to develop the underlying technology for digital libraries and make it available publicly so that others can use it to create their own collections. They have developed a 'Greenstone' Software for the development of digital library. It is available for download. Standford Digitl Library collection includes dissertations, reports, working papers, presentations, etc. The UC Berkeley Digital Library Project is developing the tools and technologies to support highly improved models of the scholarly information life cycle. Apart from these technologies it holds collection of photographs, documents, natural science database and geographical data. Under this project it is proposed to create the Universal Library with a free-to-read , searchable collection of one million books, primarily in the English language, available to everyone over the Internet. Within 10 years, it is their expectation that the collection will grow to 10 Million books. The first major project of Universal Library is the Million Book Digital Library project. This project is a collaboration between different Insitutes and Universities all over the world and Carnegie Mellon University. It is a digital archive of newspapers at Uni of Utah library. For Digital Library softwares, you may please check our downloads Section under 'Library Softwares'. 
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