EDUCAUSE | Digital Collections and Information Discovery and Retrieval

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.

A Few Thoughts on the Google Books Library Project

ckeller — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 11:37:29 -0600

Only by transforming knowledge contained in print to new and easily accessible digital formats can we guarantee its survival.

‘Scholarship in the Digital Age’

ckeller — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 12:19:17 -0600

"It’s hard to meet academics these days whose work hasn’t been changed by the Internet. But even if everyone knows that the world of scholarship has changed, it’s not always clear just how or the way those evolutions fit into the broad history of scholarship. Christine L. Borgman sets out to do just that in Scholarship in the Digital Age: Information, Infrastructure and the Internet, just published by MIT Press. Borgman, a presidential chair in information studies at the University of California at Los Angeles, responded to e-mail questions about her book. "

The Embedded Librarian Program

drupal — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 10:56:54 -0600

Faculty and librarians partner to embed personalized library assistance into online courses.

Southeastern Digital Libraries: An Overview of Current Projects and a Look at Future Trends

drupal — Wed, 15 Jun 2005 10:03:40 -0500

This presentation will showcase the digital library initiatives at four Southeastern research libraries. Representatives from Florida State University, the Georgia Institute of Technology, the University of Georgia, and the University of Tennessee will overview current projects and discuss of future trends.

DIRECT: A Decentralized Image Retrieval System for the National STEM Digital Library

drupal — Fri, 13 May 2005 12:17:27 -0500

This paper describes the Decentralized Image Retrieval for Education (DIRECT) service for the National Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Digital Library (NSDL). DIRECT augments NSDL by providing content-based image-retrieval (CBIR) functionality. CBIR allows the user to designate a query image so that the service can search the library for images of similar content. DIRECT matches images not by text metadata but by the color or texture of the image objects; the matching process does not depend on a match between the cataloger description and the user description. DIRECT is a peer-to-peer service built for decentralized digital libraries. The content-based image-retrieval service is available to all collections in NSDL without imposing new standards or protocols. With DIRECT, NSDL can support images that have yet to be cataloged or have incomplete metadata without adding overhead (expenditure of additional resources) to the collections.

Beyond the Shelf: Providing Access to Historic Microfilmed Materials

drupal — Wed, 25 Aug 2004 11:10:00 -0500

An IMLS-supported project is creating a fully searchable, digital, page-image archive of rare, historic Kentuckiana books using a microfilm-to-digital methodology. The presenter will discuss how microfilm ensures preservation and the digital images ensure easy access and wide distribution. This hybrid, standards-based, nonproprietary approach can serve as a model for cost-effective access and preservation of published materials.

Print and Electronic Information: Shedding New Light on Campus Use

drupal — Thu, 12 Sep 2002 11:28:05 -0500

The authors discuss the outcome of a survey on how library digital information resources are used by students and professors.