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» Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE) - 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.
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» British Columbia Digital Library - 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.
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» Center for Research and Development of Digital Libraries (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. Includes research publications, news, and further information and links.
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» Center for the Study of Digital Libraries - 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.
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» Colorado Digitization Project - 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.
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» Desire Project - 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. Publications, handbook and development toolkit.
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» DigiCULT Forum - 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. Includes reports, current awareness, events and links to further resources.
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» DIGI-EVAL - Mailing list to support the eVALUEd project and enable discussion of issues concerning the evaluation of electronic library initiatives.
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» Digital Cultural Content Forum - 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.
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» Digital Cultural Heritage Community - 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.
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» Digital Curation Centre (DDC) - A UK-based centre to support expertise and practice in data curation and digital preservation across communities of practice.
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» Digital Himalaya - A pilot project to develop digital collection, storage, and distribution strategies for multimedia anthropological information from the Himalayan region.
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» Digital Libraries Initiative - Supporting research and projects furthering the development of digital libraries. Includes links to projects, tools, and resources.
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» Digital Library Competence Center (DLibCenter) - 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.
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» Digital Library Federation - Developing the means of creating, maintaining, expanding, and preserving a distributed collection of digital materials.
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» Digital Preservation Coalition - 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.
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» DIGLIB Mailing List - For digital library researchers, developers and librarians, hosted by the IFLA.
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» DLib Forum and DLib Magazine - 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.
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» DSpace: Durable Digital Depository - 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. Mission, policy, technology description and download, implementations, news and staff information.
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» 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.
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» Handbook for Digital Projects - From the Northeast Document Conservation Center, a manual for preservation and access, 1st edition, edited by Maxine K. Sitts.
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» Informedia-II Digital Video Library - 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.
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» KCL Digital Consultancy Service (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. Includes project examples, consultancy information and research publications.
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» King's Digital Consultancy Services - Provides expertise and consultants for the creation and management of digital resources to museums, libraries and cultural organisations in the UK.
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» LOCKSS Permanent Publishing on the Web - Allows individual libraries to safeguard their community's access to Web content. Project funded by Stanford University, The National Science Foundation, and Sun Microsystems.
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» MarcOnt Initiative - 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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» Minnesota Digital Library Project - An initiative to assist archives, historical societies, and libraries digitize and provide coordinated access to valuable information resources reflecting the cultural heritage of Minnesota.
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» NINCH Guide to Good Practice - 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.
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» NSDL Communication Portal - Provides users and developers of the National Science Digital Library with an online collaborative area, including public workspaces, discussion forums, and support.
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» Stanford Digital Library Technologies Project - Documents and information on the design and implementation of the infrastructure and services needed for collaboratively creating, disseminating, sharing and managing information.
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» Touch and Turn - 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.
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» UIUC Digital Library Testbed - Reports, presentations, publications and information from the project at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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» University of Michigan Digital Library Project - 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.
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» WebArchivist - 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.
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» A Survey of Digital Aggregation Services. - 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. (December 12, 2003)
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» Digilib 2003 - Toward a User-Centered Approach to Digital Libraries, the Conference on Users in the Electronic Information Environments is held in Espoo, Finland. (September 8, 2003)
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» Digital Library Tool Kit - 3rd Edition of the report by Dr. Peter Noerr, sponsored by Sun Microsystems in PDF format. (January, 2003)
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» Realizing the Hybrid Library - Paper discusses the hybrid library model of information provision, outlining a number of eLib funded projects and covering key technological and managerial issues. (October, 1998)
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