Contributed by Organizations or Campuses; Articles, Papers, and Reports; Digital Libraries; and Open Source
Free and Open Source Options for Creating Database-Driven Subject Guides
| Title: | Free and Open Source Options for Creating Database-Driven Subject Guides (ID: CSD5388) | | Author(s): | Edward M. Corrado (Binghamton University) and Kathryn A. Frederick (Elmira College) | | Source: | The Code4Lib Journal | | Origin: | Contributed by Organizations or Campuses (03/28/2008) | | Type: | Articles, Papers, and Reports | | Abstract: | This article reviews available cost-effective options libraries have for updating and maintaining pathfinders such as subject guides and course pages. The paper discusses many of the available options, from the standpoint of a mid-sized academic library which is evaluating alternatives to static-HTML subject guides. Static HTML guides, while useful, have proven difficult and time-consuming to maintain. The article includes a discussion of open source database-driven solutions (such as SubjectsPlus, LibData, Research Guide, and Library Course Builder), Wikis, and social tagging sites like del.icio.us. This article discusses both the functionality and the relative strengths and weaknessess of each of these options. | | View this resource: | |
What Is a Digital Library Anymore, Anyway?
| Title: | What Is a Digital Library Anymore, Anyway? (ID: CSD4317) | | Author(s): | Carl J. Lagoze (Cornell University), Dean Krafft (Cornell University), Sandy Payette (Cornell University), and Susan Jesuroga (University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR)/NCAR) | | Source: | D-Lib Magazine | | Origin: | Contributed by Organizations or Campuses (2005) | | Type: | Articles, Papers, and Reports | | Abstract: | The authors explore how digital libraries have evolved over the years and what form they have now taken."This paper describes an information model for digital libraries that intentionally moves "beyond search and access", without ignoring those basic functions, and facilitates the creation of collaborative and contextual knowledge environments. This model is an information network overlay that represents a digital library as a graph of typed nodes, corresponding to the information units (documents, data, services, agents) within the library, and semantic edges representing the contextual relationships among those units. The information model integrates local and distributed information integrated with web services, allowing the creation of rich documents (e.g., learning objects, publications for e-science, etc.). It expresses the complex relationships among information objects, agents, services, and meta-information (such as ontologies), and thereby represents information resources in context, rather than as the result of stand-alone web access. It facilitates collaborative activities, closing the loop between users as consumers and users as contributors." | | View this resource: | |
iVia Open Source Virtual Library System
| Title: | iVia Open Source Virtual Library System (ID: CSD2702) | | Source: | D-Lib Magazine | | Origin: | Contributed by Organizations or Campuses (2003) | | Type: | Articles, Papers, and Reports | | Abstract: | This article describes the results of the last four years of work on iVia. iVia is an open source Internet subject portal or virtual library system. As a hybrid expert and machine built collection creation and management system, it supports a primary, expert-created, first-tier collection that is augmented by a large, second-tier collection of significant Internet resources that are automatically gathered and described. | | View this resource: | |
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