EDUCAUSE | Digital Libraries

University Libraries in Google Project to Offer Backup Digital Library

ckeller — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 10:55:00 -0500

A group of major universities has been quietly working for the past two years to build one of the largest online collections of books ever assembled, by pooling the millions of volumes that Google has scanned in its partnership with university libraries.

Free and Open Source Options for Creating Database-Driven Subject Guides

ckeller — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:32:39 -0500

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.

CNI Podcast: An Interview with Clifford Lynch

gbayne — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 04:02:29 -0500

On this podcast we feature an interview with Clifford Lynch, Executive Director of the Coalition for Networked Information. He spoke to us from the CNI 2008 Spring Task Force Meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Clifford Lynch has been the Executive Director of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) since July 1997. CNI, jointly sponsored by the Association of Research Libraries and EDUCAUSE, includes about 200 member organizations concerned with the use of information technology and networked information to enhance scholarship and intellectual productivity.

This interview is provided courtesy of CNI and was recorded at their 2008 Spring Task Force Meeting. The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is an organization dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity. You can learn more about CNI at their web site, http://www.cni.org

Integrating Community History, Technology, and Service Learning: The Digital Durham Project

drupal — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 11:24:36 -0500

This presentation focuses on a collaborative local history project between Duke University undergraduates and Durham eighth graders. Through their research seminar, Duke students conduct original research in local archives and then mentor eighth graders in how to use technology, particularly the Digital Durham website http://digitaldurham.duke.edu

March/April EDUCAUSE Review Is Now Available

cluckett — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:22:18 -0500

The March/April 2008 issue of EDUCAUSE Review is now available online. Read articles from George Siemens, Peter Tittenberger, and Terry Anderson on how technology is changing conference participation and organization, Peter Brantley on digital libraries, and Mark R. Nelson on the future of e-books, as well as Richard N. Katz’s interview with leaders of the Open University.

Gen Next Meets the Greatest Generation: Creating Community Through a Digital Library

drupal — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 09:50:00 -0500

In creating a digital library collection on World War II, Texas A&M University-Commerce discovered an opportunity to work in partnership with local museums, public libraries, and historical societies. This diverse community greatly expands our ability to preserve historical resources and make them available to scholars worldwide.

Architectures for Collaboration: Roles and Expectations for Digital Libraries

elilly — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:45:07 -0600

Libraries are successful to the extent that they can bridge communities and can leverage the diversity of the quest, the research, and the discovery. By building bridges among various sectors, libraries will be able to define themselves in the next generation.

Flexible Access Control: Shibboleth and the InCommon Federation

drupal — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:30:30 -0600

Texas A&M deployed Shibboleth single sign-on and federating software to control access to on-campus applications as well as licensed third-party course content through the InCommon Federation and the Texas Digital Library initiative. This session will discuss how this infrastructure can be leveraged to address a variety of business needs.

"Born Medieval": MSS. in the Digital Scriptorium

elilly — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:13:37 -0600

Stephen G. Nichols tells of creating a digital library of manuscripts of the <i>Romance of the Rose</i>, the most popular vernacular French romance of the Middle Ages. The scholarly rationale for the digital library project proved the easy part. Nichols also shares the complex, technical steps of digitizing the manuscripts.

Can Universities Dream of Electric Sheepskin?: Systemic Transformations in Higher Education Organizational Models

elilly — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:29:29 -0600

Charles Henry raises fundamental questions about the nature of the university now that
communication and scholarship are so ingrained in academe.

The Virtual Observatory Meets the Library

elilly — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:06:23 -0600

New cyberinfrastructures require not only collaboration across
disciplines, but collaboration across organizations. In The Virtual
Observatory Meets the Library, G. Sayeed Choudhury tells of the lessons
learned - academic, technological, and sociological - when Johns Hopkins
University created an astronomical database.

Cyberscholarship: High Performance Computing Meets Digital Libraries

elilly — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 13:05:53 -0600

In April 2007, the US National Science Foundation (NSF) and the British Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) held an invitational workshop on data-driven science and data-driven scholarship, co-chaired by Ronald Larsen and William Arms, who jointly authored the final report. The report used the term cyberscholarship to describe new forms of research that become possible when high-performance computing meets digital libraries. | [1] Elsewhere in this issue of the Journal of Electronic Publishing, Ronald Larsen describes the workshop and its conclusions. In this article, William Arms gives a personal view of the motivation behind the workshop and the roles of libraries and publishing in achieving its goals.

CNI Podcast: An Interview with Jim Neal, VP for Information Services and University Librarian, Columbia University

gbayne — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 17:58:49 -0600

In this 20 minute podcast, we feature an interview with Jim Neal, Vice President for Information Services and University Librarian at Columbia University. He provides leadership for university academic computing and network services as well as a system of twenty-five libraries. He also works with the Electronic Publishing Initiative at Columbia (EPIC) and the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL). He serves on key academic, technology, budget and policy groups at the University.

Neal has also represented the American library community in testimony on copyright matters before Congressional committees and was an advisor to the U.S. delegation at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) diplomatic conference on copyright. He has worked on copyright policy and advisory groups for universities and professional and higher education associations. He was selected the 1997 Academic/Research Librarian of the Year by ALA's Association of College and Research Libraries.

Neal has served on the Council and Executive Board of the American Library Association (ALA), on the Board and as President of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), and as Chair of OCLC's Research Library Advisory Council. He currently is Chair of the Board of Directors of the Research Libraries Group (RLG) and on the Board of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO). He has also served on numerous international, national and state professional committees, and is an active member of the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA).

This interview is provided courtesy of CNI and was recorded at their 2007 Fall Task Force Meeting. The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is an organization dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity. You can learn more about CNI at their web site, http://www.cni.org

CNI Podcast: An Interview with Roger C. Schonfeld, Manager of Research at Ithaka

gbayne — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 17:34:55 -0600

In this 18 minute podcast, we feature an interview with Roger C. Schonfeld, Manager of Research at Ithaka, an independent not-for-profit organization with a mission to accelerate the productive uses of information technologies for the benefit of higher education worldwide.

Roger Schonfeld leads the research group at Ithaka, where he studies how new technologies are affecting academia and how the changes they bring can best be managed. Roger is the author of JSTOR: A History (Princeton University Press, 2003), which examines business models for the shift to an online environment for scholarly texts by focusing on how JSTOR developed into a self-sustaining not-for-profit organization. He has also published The Changing Information Services Needs of Faculty (Educause Review, 2007), The Nonsubscription Side of Periodicals (Council on Library and Information Resources, 2004) and the most comprehensive examination of the systemwide print book collection, “Books without Boundaries: A Brief Tour of the System-wide Print Book Collection,” Journal of Electronic Publishing, 2006. Other recent work has focused on the history and future of preservation and book survivability. Previously, Roger was a research associate at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

E07 Podcast: An Interview with Mark Notess, Development Manager & Usability Specialist at Indiana University

gbayne — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 17:47:36 -0600

In this 12 minute podcast, we feature an interview with Mark Notess, Development Manager & Usability Specialist at Indiana University. He is involved in several online learning and research tool development projects including the Variations 3 Digital Music Library Project, and Integrating Licensed Library Resources with Sakai. He also co-authored an article with Lisa Lorenzen-Huber entitled, "Online Learning for Seniors: Barriers and Opportunities". He spoke with Carie Windham at the EDUCAUSE 2007 Annual Conference in Seattle, Washington.

New Mailing List on Distributed/Federated Digital Preservation Strategies

rmcdonal — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 17:45:27 -0600

The MetaArchive Cooperative has established a new mailing list for discussion of distributed/federated digital preservation issues and strategies. This list will work toward building cross-community relationships for a variety of federated digital preservation organizations.

I put this up earlier today and the list was not quite ready for subscription.

However, you can now subscribe at:
http://listserv.emory.edu/wa.exe?SUBED1=distributed-preservation-l&A=1

Use and Users of Digital Resources

ckeller — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 12:37:37 -0600

A survey explored scholar’s attitudes about educational technology environments in the humanities.

Professional Development for the New Digital Library Team

drupal — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:42:39 -0500

Are you "growing your own" digital library team? Wondering how best to provide them with the knowledge, skills, and perspectives they need to plan and carry out their projects? Come hear how several library directors are addressing this challenge at their libraries.

A Role for Librarians in Curating Scientific Data - A Very Short Reading List

mwittin — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 20:35:42 -0500

EDUCAUSE 2007

A Role for Librarians in Curating Scientific Data - A Short Reading List, Addendum

Thanks to Robert McDonald for convening our session and to all who attended and participated. Below is a short, selected reading list for those who are new to the topic and would like more background on issues related to data-driven science and data curation.

National Science Board. September 2005. "Long-Lived Data Collections: Enabling Research and Education in the 21st Century."

Microsoft Research. March 2006. "Towards 2020 Science."

Association of Research Libraries. September 2006. "To Stand the Test of Time: Long-Term Stewardship of Digital Datasets in Science and Engineering."

NSF and JISC Repositories Workshop. September 2007. "The Future of Scholarly Communication: Building the Infrastructure for Cyberscholarship."

There are many, many other good sources of information in the literature, but this should be a good start for those who are new to the topic.

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Session: A Role For Librarians in Curating Scientific Data
Presenters: G. Sayeed Choudhury (Johns Hopkins) and Michael Witt (Purdue)

Abstract: In this session, presenters from two research-extensive universities will advocate a role for librarians in addressing the impending "data deluge" and the emerging need of researchers for help in describing, preserving, and providing access to their data. Activities taking place on their campuses to meet these needs will also be discussed.

Culture Morph

ckeller — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 13:58:09 -0500

Technologists and librarians are discovering that intelligent organizational overlap is the route to the digital library of the future.

Educause Live! Podcast: Architectures for Collaboration—Roles and Expectations for Digital Libraries.

gbayne — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 17:34:27 -0500

From January, 2007, your host, Steve Worona, is joined by Peter Brantley for the topic "Architectures for Collaboration—Roles and Expectations for Digital Libraries". Click on this topic link for access to the accompanying presentation slides.

The collective expertise of digital libraries in making available the diverse literatures of science and artistic expression, in concert with the increasing sophistication of commercial partners and the development of distributed, interactive forms of publishing, require libraries to chart the engineering of new architectures for teaching, learning, and research. Digital libraries must work to forge the new collaborations required to enable and build these services.

Size Isn't Everything: Sustainable Repositories as Evidenced by Sustainable Deposit Profiles

ckeller — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 15:30:25 -0500

The key to a successful repository is sustained deposits, and the key to sustained deposits is community engagement. This article looks at deposit profiles automatically generated from OAI harvesting information and argues that repositories characterised by occasional large-volume deposits are a sign of a failure to embed in institutional processes. The ideal profile for a successful repository is discussed, and a new service that ranks repositories based on these criteria is implemented.

CIC Announces Google Partnership

rmcdonal — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 11:35:24 -0500

This week the Committee on Insititutional Cooperation (CIC) announced a new deal with Google that will put millions of books online from the research libraries of the University of Chicago, University of Illinois, Indiana University, University of Iowa, University of Michigan, Michigan State University, University of Minnesota, Northwestern University, Ohio State University, Pennsylvania State University, Purdue University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

For more info see http://tinyurl.com/yuez5e

Science Friday Podcast on Digital Libraries

rmcdonal — Mon, 14 May 2007 17:34:20 -0500

There was a great science friday podcast on NPR from last friday that features - Gary Borisy, Brewster Kahle, Michael Hart, and Michael Keller. It has a great debate on the access to the google print project's digitized index and text.

The Content of Collaboration

drupal — Tue, 08 May 2007 11:20:32 -0500

The author discusses the delicate balance of creating collaborative relationships between faculty, librarians and IT staff. One such Fellowship effort is sponsored by the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). In attracting recent Ph.D.s who believe that there are opportunities to develop meaningful linkages between disciplinary scholarship, libraries, archives, and evolving digital tools, the program brings scholars with both teaching and digital experience into the academic library so that they may serve as a bridge between librarians, faculty, and IT professionals.

In Google's Broad Wake: Taking Responsibility for Shaping the Global Digital Library

drupal — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 15:41:16 -0500

The author discusses how the Google Library Project has brought digital libraries into the spot light, including a new focus on negotiations concerning digital library resources.

Jumpstarting a Project Through Internal Collaboration: Improving Access to Library Collections

drupal — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 09:30:43 -0600

We will share our experience with a successful internal collaboration between disparate departments at the University of Kansas. By assembling a team whose members effectively worked together, the Digital Initiatives program successfully completed a project, integrated it into the existing organizational structure, and created a fully functioning program.

Report of the January 2007 ORE-TC Meeting

drupal — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 13:18:22 -0600

A detalied report of the results of the meeting of OAI-ORE Technical Committee describing features and requirements of the ORE model and its context in the Web Architecture.

A Robust Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Program at UCF

drupal — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 09:02:57 -0600

Three years ago the University of Central Florida (UCF) began an electronic thesis and dissertation (ETD) submission process to enable students to disseminate their research widely and quickly. This research bulletin highlights how UCF implemented the ETD and discusses the necessary policy and procedural changes, including those that were unexpected, and the work now being done.

Architectures for Collaboration—Roles and Expectations for Digital Libraries

drupal — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:16:21 -0600

January 30 EDUCAUSE Live! Web Seminar on Digital Libraries and Collaboration

cluckett — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 14:32:43 -0600

Libraries must chart the engineering of new architectures for teaching, learning, and research in order to accommodate making science and artistic expression more readily available, in concert with the increasing sophistication of commercial partners and the development of distributed, interactive forms of publishing. During the January 30 EDUCAUSE Live!, Peter Brantley, Director-Designate of the Digital Library Federation and Director of Strategic Technology, Academic Information Services, at the University of California Office of the President, will discuss how digital libraries must work to forge the new collaborations required to enable and build teaching, learning, and research services. This hour-long, free Web seminar is open to the public. Unable to attend? Visit the archives. Peruse EDUCAUSE resources on digital libraries and digital library services.

Contexts and Contributions: Building the Distributed Library

drupal — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 12:31:31 -0600

Martha L. Brogan's Contexts and Contributions: Building the Distributed Library is a major contribution to the Digital Library Federation's (DLF) suite of work that focuses on the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). With generous funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, DLF has harnessed deep OAI expertise from the University of Michigan, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Emory University to prototype "next-generation" OAI services informed by advisory panels of scholars and technical experts; to build registries of providers to aid in the creation of new OAI-based services; and to formulate best practices for sharable metadata that focus what we have learned collectively for innovative library services. The best practices work has received intellectual and practical support from our colleagues at the National Science Digital Library (NSDL), a service of the National Science Foundation (NSF).

Digital Library as Network and Community Center: A Successful Model for Contribution and Use

drupal — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 11:56:32 -0600

The following article describes work on implementing a community DL model through a set of services that enabled geoscience education projects to collectively build the Teach the Earth educational digital library. The focus is on three aspects of this work: 1) facilitating community publishing, 2) creating a navigational and organizational framework that integrates the work of all included projects into a DL, 3) and identifying the ways in which the network centric DL that results from these efforts meets users' needs by complementing their natural search behaviors.

Using the Audit Checklist for the Certification of a Trusted Digital Repository as a Framework for Evaluating Repository Software Applications: A Progress Report

drupal — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 11:49:28 -0600

Digital library initiatives have encouraged the development and implementation of repository software applications such as DSpace, Eprints, and Greenstone. These applications are being commonly deployed within the context of institutional or digital repositories. As the boundaries of, and landscapes around, institutional or digital repositories become more clearly defined and expressed, there is a greater need to have useful methods for evaluating repository software applications and the role they play in the broader context of repository services. Regarding digital preservation specifically, the 2005 RLG/NARA Audit Checklist for the Certification of a Trusted Digital Repository, Draft for Public Comment (Audit Checklist) is a current document under consideration for determining an institution's ability to be a Trusted Digital Repository. The NDIIPP-sponsored ECHO DEPository project is proposing a framework of evaluation for repository software applications based on the Audit Checklist in conjunction with a common software evaluation scoring methodology. This paper provides an overview of our work to date in this area.

An Interview with Bill Arms

mpasiewicz — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 13:52:08 -0600

In this 13 minute recording, we'll hear from Cornell's Bill Arms. Listen in as he shares some thoughts on the evolving landscape of digital libraries.

This interview is provided courtesy of CNI and was recorded at their 2006 Fall Task Force Meeting. The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is an organization dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity. You can learn more about CNI at their web site, http://www.cni.org

An Interview with John Morris

mpasiewicz — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 11:29:51 -0600

In this 17 minute recording, Marilu Goodyear sits down with John Morris for a discussion about transcoding legacy media, digital preservation, and the synergy between architecture and technology.

An Interview with Glenda Morgan

mpasiewicz — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 10:39:04 -0600

In this 17 minute recording, we'll hear from Cal State's Director of Academic Technology Research, Glenda Morgan. Listen in as she shares some thoughts about her research into faculty use of technology, intellectual property, and a range of other topics.

Repository Librarian and the Next Crusade: The Search for a Common Standard for Digital Repository Metadata

drupal — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 14:16:49 -0600

"Metadata is an exceedingly broad category of information covering everything from an object's title and date of origin to information about layout, presentation, and rights. Within libraries and digital object repositories, metadata is the cornerstone of the infrastructure required for exchange and use of information. While metadata standards abound, and acceptance and use of these standards is equally widespread, agreement on a common standard is much harder to find."

Finding Scholarship: Google Scholar on College and University Library Web Sites

drupal — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 15:56:44 -0500

This study examined the incidence and visibility of Google Scholar on ARL and Oberlin Group college library Web sites to see if, where, and how it appeared. Results will reveal the level of integration of Google Scholar in university and college library Web sites, including any differences between them and effective representations.

Sustaining Digital Libraries Symposium

rmcdonal — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 14:42:33 -0500

Today I am at a symposium being hosted by the Emory University Libraries on sustainability issues in digital libraries. This short but informative day on DL sustainability has been well worth the trip. Highlights of the day were the panel sessions (which were far ranging in types of speakers - Chris Greer (OCI)-Charles Henry (ACLS)-Martha Anderson (LoC) - Daryl Donakowski (ICPSR) - Robyn Asbury (BookSurge) - David Seaman (DLF)) - as well as a great opener by Greg Crane of the Perseus Project and Paul Courant who is currently working with LC on their NDIIPP initiative.

The thought of the day from this event for me was raised by Greg Crane when he asked why are we looking at sustaining digital libraries and not looking at sustaining libraries? This was right on target in my book and gives me a good lead into promoting another event that was held in September at the University of Texas on the Future of the Research Library (audio files available).

The Research Library in the 21st Century

drupal — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 13:22:42 -0500

The Research Library in the 21st Century symposium was held at The University of Texas at Austin over the course of two days, September 11-12, 2006. The idea behind the symposium was to begin shaping a strategy for the future of academic research libraries. The audio results of the symposium are included.

Moving Towards Shareable Metadata

drupal — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 12:25:31 -0500

A focus of digital libraries, particularly since the advent of the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting, is aggregating from multiple collections metadata describing digital content. However, the quality and interoperability of the metadata often prevents such aggregations from offering much more than very simple search and discovery services. Shareable metadata is metadata which can be understood and used outside of its local environment by aggregators to provide more advanced services. This paper describes shareable metadata, its characteristics, and its importance to digital library development, as well as barriers and challenges to its implementation.

Scholarship and Academic Libraries (and their kin) in the World of Google

drupal — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 12:18:54 -0500

The prospect of ubiquitous digitization will not change the fundamental relationships among scholarship, academic libraries, and publication. Collaboration across time and space, which is a principal mechanism of scholarship, ought to be enhanced. Reforms in copyright law will be required if the promise of digitization is to be realized; absent such reform, there is a serious risk that much academically valuable material will become invisible and unused. Ubiquitous digitization will change radically the economics that have supported university–based collections of published material. Scholars and scholarly institutions (including libraries and university presses) must assert vigorously claims of fair use and openness.

Disciplining Search/Searching Disciplines: Perspectives from Academic Communities on Metasearch Quality Indicators

drupal — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 12:11:34 -0500

"Quality Metrics" is an IMLS–funded research project which aims to address longstanding deficits in the formal conceptual support for and development of scholarly digital libraries. Central to attaining these goals is collecting and analyzing feedback from stakeholders in the scholarly community about the efficacy and value of key aspects of search technologies; including search interfaces, modalities, and results displays. A team at Emory University conducted this foundational research by utilizing the qualitative methodology of focus groups. In addition to an initial set of exploratory focus groups, the team conducted a second round of focus group sessions with a protoype search system specially designed for scholarly digital libraries. This paper describes the concept, objectives, methodology, and findings of the focus groups component of the Quality Metrics Project.

Libraries, Web/Library 2.0 and privacy

mpasiewicz — Fri, 26 May 2006 13:42:25 -0500

Rory Litwin (Library Juice) has some interesting commentary about privacy and social computing in the library space. IMHO, he rightly characterizes it as a Library 2.0 problem ... it isn't really just about social computing in the most traditional sense ... in an era of mashups and a press towards identity management in way that may not yet be well understood, this is a good thing to remind of ourselves of.

The Central Problem of Library 2.0: Privacy
http://libraryjuicepress.com/blog/?p=68

Endeca's patent and the potential impact on innovation in libraries?

mpasiewicz — Fri, 26 May 2006 13:28:53 -0500

Any ideas about what Endeca's patent covering guided navigation means for innovation in the library sector and elsewhere? I believe that I read that the eXtensible Catalog (XC) project had hoped to create similar functionality ... and what about SIMILE (and the semantic web more broadly)? I haven't read the patent filing yet, but it should make for interesting fodder for discussion going forward.

Building a National Science Digital Library

drupal — Mon, 08 May 2006 14:13:10 -0500

Since 2000, the National Science Digital Library (NSDL) Core Integration team has been creating the infrastructure for a digital library of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics resources. That library now contains more than a million resources from approximately 100 collections. In this talk, Dean Krafft gives a short historical overview of the NSDL and describes the current NSDL community and participants. He then reviews the technical underpinnings of NSDL 1.0, a library built on metadata harvesting, and describes some of the challenges encountered. For the past year (2005-6), the project has been working on NSDL 2.0, a new version of the library built on the Fedora repository architecture. For the last part of the talk, Krafft describes this new library architecture and explains how it supports creating context for science resources, how it enhances the selection and use of library materials, and what these capabilities mean for the users of the NSDL.

An interview with Joyce Ray of IMLS

mpasiewicz — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:41:00 -0500

In this 20 minute recording, we'll hear from Joyce Ray, Deputy Director for Library Services at the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services. Among other things, we'll talk about their work with the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, their Librarians for the 21st Century program, and the conference they hosted at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina.

This interview is provided courtesy of CNI and was recorded at their 2006 Spring Task Force Meeting. The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is an organization dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity. You can learn more about CNI at their web site, http://www.cni.org

An interview with Penn State's Nancy Eaton

mpasiewicz — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 11:25:00 -0500

In this 14 minute recording, we'll hear from Nancy Eaton, Dean of University Libraries and Scholarly Communications at The Pennsylvania State University. We'll talk about her unique role at Penn State, DPubS, Google books, and more.

This interview is provided courtesy of CNI and was recorded at their 2006 Spring Task Force Meeting. The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is an organization dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity. You can learn more about CNI at their web site, http://www.cni.org

May 8 Web Seminar on National Science Digital Library

ecoghlan — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 14:32:50 -0500

Tune in May 8 to a free EDUCAUSE Live! Web seminar on the National Science Digital Library with Dean B. Krafft, principal investigator in the NSDL Core Integration project at Cornell. If you are unable to attend, you can listen later by visiting the archives.