- Center for the Study of Digital Libraries - http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/
Established in 1995 at Texas A&M University and builds upon research developed in the Hypermedia Research Laboratory established in 1987. Includes research, publications, events and course information.
- Cornell Institute for Digital Collections (CIDC) - http://cidc.library.cornell.edu/
Established to explore technologies and the building of digital collections to expand access to and use of cultural and scientific sources on campus and globally. List of current image collections and projects, services and events offered, overview of lab facilities, history and organization, publications, and news media citations included.
- Parity Computing - http://www.paritycomputing.com/
Communications company based in San Diego, focused on digital library technologies including complete turn-key solutions and customized services. Main clients include IEEE, Springer-Verlag, and ACM.
- Palo Alto Research Centre (PARC) - http://www.parc.com/groups/istl/
Information Sciences and Technologies Laboratory. Project areas include Human-Document Interaction (HDI), Natural Language Theory and Technology (NLTT), Quantitative Content Analysis, Sparrow Web, Statistical Pattern and Image Analysis, and User Interface Research. Site includes internship and employment information as well as full project information and activities.
- DLib Forum and DLib Magazine - http://www.dlib.org/
The forum hosts a working group on metrics, a test suite for online research and list of further references. The web magazine is published monthly and covers news, innovation and research.
- Digital Library Initiatives - http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/dli/index.html
Planning information, project examples, publications and links at North Carolina State University.
- Informedia-II Digital Video Library - http://www.informedia.cs.cmu.edu/
Research at Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science to achieve machine understanding of video and film media, including all aspects of search, retrieval, visualization and summarization.
- ARL Digital Initiatives Database - http://www.arl.org/did/
A registry of projects, provided jointly by the University of Illinois and the Association of Research Libraries with predominantly US-based submissions.
- NINCH Guide to Good Practice - http://www.nyu.edu/its/humanities/ninchguide/
guidance in the digital representation and management of cultural heritage materials by the Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII), University of Glasgow, and the National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage.
- National Digital Library Program - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/dli2/html/lcndlp.html
Program information and resources for the Library of Congress digitization programs.
- Stanford Digital Library Technologies Project - http://diglib.stanford.edu/
Documents and information on the design and implementation of the infrastructure and services needed for collaboratively creating, disseminating, sharing and managing information.
- UC Berkeley Digital Library Project - http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu
Site includes information about the project, services, collections and technologies as well as a seminar series provided to students.
- University of Michigan Digital Library Project - http://www.si.umich.edu/UMDL/
A NSF/ARPA/NASA-sponsored project incorporating basic research, system building, deployment, and evaluation of a usable digital library. The UMDL provides access to significant public domain collections of scientific data and information.
- Digital Libraries Initiative - http://dli.grainger.uiuc.edu/national.htm
Supporting research and projects furthering the development of digital libraries. Includes links to projects, tools, and resources.
- Digital Library Network - http://www.dl.ulis.ac.jp/
Workshop and conference proceedings from the University of Library and Information Science, Tsukuba Science City, Japan. Also available in Japanese.
- Digital Reference Services Bibliography - http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/~b-sloan/digiref.html
List of more than 400 references to articles about online or virtual reference services by Bernie Sloan from the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois.
- LOCKSS Permanent Publishing on the Web - http://lockss.stanford.edu/
Allows individual libraries to safeguard their community's access to Web content. Project funded by Stanford University, The National Science Foundation, and Sun Microsystems.
- Digital Cultural Heritage Community - http://images.library.uiuc.edu/projects/dchc/
Provides materials from East Central Illinois museums and libraries in support of elementary school social studies curricula, as well as workshops and training materials to help teachers integrate materials into class exercises.
- DIGLIB Mailing List - http://www.ifla.org/II/lists/diglib.htm
For digital library researchers, developers and librarians, hosted by the IFLA.
- Digital Preservation Coalition - http://www.dpconline.org/
Aims to secure the preservation of digital resources in the UK. Includes background information on the coalition, their program of work, details of their administration, how interested parties can participate, and the full-text of the Preservation of Digital Materials handbook.
- Beyond the Beginning: The Global Digital Library - http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/services/papers/bl/blri078/content/
Proceedings of the international conference organised by UKOLN, held 16th and 17th June 1997, London. Full text provides broad historical perspective.
- DIGI-EVAL - http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/digi-eval.html
Mailing list to support the eVALUEd project and enable discussion of issues concerning the evaluation of electronic library initiatives.
- Digital Library Tool Kit - http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/edu/whitepapers/digitaltoolkit.html
3rd Edition of the report by Dr. Peter Noerr, sponsored by Sun Microsystems in PDF format.
- Digilib 2003 - http://www.lib.helsinki.fi/finelib/digilib/
Toward a User-Centered Approach to Digital Libraries, the Conference on Users in the Electronic Information Environments is held in Espoo, Finland.
- British Columbia Digital Library - http://bcdlib.tc.ca
Guide to full-text collections and resources, including software tools and standards by the British Columbia Community Networks Association; also dedicated to the digitization and storage of local publications.
- UIUC Digital Library Testbed - http://dli.grainger.uiuc.edu/idli/idli.htm
Reports, presentations, publications and information from the project at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
- Annotated Bibliography of Digital Library Related Sources - http://liinwww.ira.uka.de/bibliography/Misc/digital.library.html
List of references originally compiled by Steven Ketchpel at Stanford University, forms part of a collection of bibliographies of scientific literature in computer science.
- Digital Library Competence Center (DLibCenter) - http://dlibcenter.iei.pi.cnr.it/
The center provides specific user communities with access to advanced technologies, services, expertise and knowledge with courses for librarians, archivists, scholars and technicians. The site is available in English and Italian.
- A Survey of Digital Aggregation Services. - http://www.diglib.org/pubs/brogan/
Martha Brogan 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.
- Touch and Turn - http://www.touchandturn.com/
A Swedish company based in Stockholm that delivers software solutions for virtual browsing with touch screen technology, publishes rare books and develops Internet based services for mediation.
- Center for Research and Development of Digital Libraries (CRADLE) - http://ils.unc.edu/cradle/
Based at the University of North Carolina, the center is interested in the migration, management, and accessibility of digital information. It serves as a test bed for the development of new methodologies and also focuses on training and education by collaborating with other academic units, companies and organizations. The site includes some research publications, news, and further information and links.
- KCL Digital Consultancy Service (KDCS) - http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/kdcs/
Established at King's College London in September 2003, KDCS carries out research and provides fee-based consultancy services in the area of digitisation and digital resource management. The site includes project examples, consultancy information and research publications.
- DigiCULT Forum - http://www.digicult.info
Digital Culture (DigiCULT) is a 30-month European funded project to monitor and assess existing and emerging technologies to benefit the cultural heritage sector between March 2002 and August 2004. The site includes reports, current awareness, events and links to further resources.
- Digital Cultural Content Forum - http://www.culturalcontentforum.org/
A forum that seeks to assume a leadership role in disseminating practice and building consensus amongst individuals and agencies active in digitization and online dissemination of cultural heritage resources.
- Digital and Preservation Online Resource Center - http://digitalcooperative.oclc.org/
Provided by the OCLC Digitization & Preservation Outreach Center, this site hosts information about copyright, digitization, grants assistance, preservation and news and events.
- eVALUEd - http://www.ebase.uce.ac.uk/evalued/
Project based at the University of Central England to develop a transferable evaluation model for e-library developments, which began in December 2001 and completed in May 2004. There is a link to the evaluation toolkit from the homepage.
- Realizing the Hybrid Library - http://www.dlib.org/dlib/october98/10pinfield.html
Paper discusses the hybrid library model of information provision, outlining a number of eLib funded projects and covering key technological and managerial issues.
- Colorado Digitization Project - http://www.cdpheritage.org
A collaborative initiative to provide access to the unique collections of local archives, historical societies, libraries, and museums. Includes guidelines, standards, resources and links to further information.
- NSDL Communication Portal - http://comm.nsdl.org/
Provides users and developers of the National Science Digital Library with an online collaborative area, including public workspaces, discussion forums, and support.
- Preserving Access to Digital Information (PADI) - http://www.nla.gov.au/padi/
Hosted by the National Library of Australia and directed by an international advisory group, PADI provides access to a wide range of digital preservation resources.
- Minnesota Digital Library Project - http://www.mndigital.org/
An initiative to assist archives, historical societies, and libraries digitize and provide coordinated access to valuable information resources reflecting the cultural heritage of Minnesota.
- Digital Curation Centre (DDC) - http://www.dcc.ac.uk/
A UK-based centre to support expertise and practice in data curation and digital preservation across communities of practice.
- DSpace: Durable Digital Depository - http://www.dspace.org/
A joint project between MIT Libraries and Hewlett-Packard to provide stable long-term storage for the intellectual output of MIT faculty and researchers using open-source software. Site includes mission, policy, technology description and download, implementations, news and staff information.
- Handbook for Digital Projects - http://www.nedcc.org/digital/dighome.htm
From the Northeast Document Conservation Center, a manual for preservation and access, 1st edition, edited by Maxine K. Sitts.
- Canadian Initiative on Digital Libraries - http://www.collectionscanada.ca/cidl/
An alliance of Canadian libraries and organizations to promote, coordinate and facilitate the development of collections and services. Site contains general information with links to members' projects and further resources; also available in French.
- Washington State Library Digital Best Practices - http://digitalwa.statelib.wa.gov/best.htm
A guide to major decision points in planning a digital project, ranging from administrative factors to technology concerns to financial management.
- Digital Himalaya - http://www.digitalhimalaya.com/
A pilot project to develop digital collection, storage, and distribution strategies for multimedia anthropological information from the Himalayan region.
- Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE) - http://base.ub.uni-bielefeld.de
BASE provides integrated access to distributed collections of various type and format (digitised collections, institutional repositories, pre-print-servers, electronic journals etc.) by applying search engine technology in the context of scholarly search- and retrieval services.
- Digital Library and Information Systems Team (DLIST) - http://www.library.arizona.edu/library/teams/dlist/
The Digital Libraries Initiatives Group and the Library Information Systems Team of the University of Arizona merged in May 2003 and now coordinates digital development through the use of a Twiki online group.
- Digital Library Federation - http://www.diglib.org/
Developing the means of creating, maintaining, expanding, and preserving a distributed collection of digital materials.
- DELOS Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries (FP6) - http://www.delos.info/
An initiative funded by the European Union's Information Society Technologies 6th Framework Programme to integrate and coordinate ongoing research activities within Europe and disseminate knowledge.
- King's Digital Consultancy Services - http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kdcs/
Provides expertise and consultants for the creation and management of digital resources to museums, libraries and cultural organisations in the UK.
- WebArchivist - http://www.webarchivist.org/
A research and software development group based at the University of Washington and the SUNY Institute of Technology that works with scholars, librarians and archivists interested in preserving and analyzing materials created for and distributed on the Web. Creates web-based tools, helps with project design and procedures, and develops institutional policies necessary to complete these tasks.
- Desire Project - http://www.lub.lu.se/desire/
Development of a European Service for Information on Research and Education. This project ran from July 1998 until June 2000 and was a collaboration between partners at ten institutions from four European countries. Site includes publications, handbook and development toolkit.
- Personal Archives Accessible in Digital Media (Paradigm) - http://www.paradigm.ac.uk
A JISC-funded project of the Universities of Oxford and Manchester to produce an online workbook on Digital Private Papers of use to libraries and archives in preserving digital research materials.
- MarcOnt Initiative - http://www.marcont.org/
Ontology development based on a social agreement that will combine descriptions from MARC21 together with DublinCore and makes use of the full potential of the Semantic Web technologies.
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