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Founded in 1986, OverDrive, Inc. is a provider of enterprise Digital Rights Management (DRM) and
associated digital media solutions enabling the management and distribution of premium digital
content over global networks. It specializes in a variety of digital publishing and eBook
technologies, and Internet solutions for digital asset management and eCommerce.
http://www.overdrive.com/
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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. The
site includes project examples, consultancy information and research publications.
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/kdcs/
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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. The site includes some research publications, news, and further
information and links.
http://ils.unc.edu/cradle/
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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.
http://www.touchandturn.com/
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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.
http://www.diglib.org/pubs/brogan/
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European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL 2004)
8th annual conference to be held in Bath, England, September 12th-17th 2004.
http://www.ecdl2004.org/
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International Conference on Digital Archive Technologies (ICDAT 2002)
The 1st conference was held in Taipei, Taiwan, 19th-20th December 2002. The theme of the conference
focussed on technologies for managing and manipulating digital information.
http://www.iis.sinica.edu.tw/ICDAT02/
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International Conference on Digital Archive Technologies (ICDAT 2004)
The 2nd conference will be held in Taipei, Taiwan, March 18th-19th. The themes of the conference
will include: technologies and tools for advanced digital archive systems, new knowledge about
archival storage and preservation, best practices of technology development in digital archives,
and applications of digital archive technologies.
http://www.iis.sinica.edu.tw/ICDAT04/
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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 avaiable in English and Italian.
http://dlibcenter.iei.pi.cnr.it/
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UKOLN Metadata Group - Selection Criteria for Quality Controlled Information Gateways
Report describes methods and tools created to assist the staff of subject gateways to develop and
maintain their quality control systems.
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/desire/quality/
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Bibliotheca Universalis
A G-7 global information society pilot project to provide access to the major works of the world's
scientific and cultural heritage.
http://portico.bl.uk/gabriel/bibliotheca-universalis/en/bibliotheca_universalis_accueil.htm
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International Conference of Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL 2003)
The 6th annual conference held in Kuala Lumpur, December 8th-11th. The theme of the conference was
"Digital Libraries: Technology and Management of Indigenous Knowledge for Global Access"
http://www.ftsm.ukm.my/ICADL2003/
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Selection Criteria for Web-Based Resources in a Science and Technology Library Collection
Article discusses reasons to include Internet-based resources in a science and technology library
collection.
http://www.library.ucsb.edu/istl/98-spring/article2.html
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Annotated Bibliography of Digital Library Related Sources
List of references compiled by Steven Ketchpel at Stanford University.
http://liinwww.ira.uka.de/bibliography/Misc/digital.library.html
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International Conference of Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL 2004)
The 7th annual conference will be held in Shanghai, China, December 13th-17th. The theme of the
conference will be: Digital Library: International Collaboration and Cross-Fertilization, with its
focus on technology, service & management and collaboration & localization.
http://icadl2004.sjtu.edu.cn/
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UIUC Digital Library Testbed
Reports, presentations, publications and information from the project at the University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign.
http://dli.grainger.uiuc.edu/idli/idli.htm
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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 digitisation and storage of local
publications.
http://bcdlib.tc.ca
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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.
http://www.lib.helsinki.fi/finelib/digilib/
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Tilburg Innovation Centre for Electronic Resources (Ticer BV)
Centre based at Tilburg University, the Netherlands, whose primary activities include consultancy
and organising an annual international summer school, and other courses and seminars.
http://www.ticer.nl/
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Russian Digital Libraries Journal
Electronic journal containing information on research and use of digital libraries.
http://www.iis.ru/el-bib/index.en.html
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Digital Library Tool Kit
2nd Edition of the report by Dr. Peter Noerr, sponsored by Sun Microsystems in PDF format.
http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/edu/whitepapers/digitaltoolkit.html
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European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL 2002)
6th annual conference held in Rome, Italy, 16th - 18th September, 2002.
http://www.ecdl2002.org/
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European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL 2003)
7th annual conference held in Trondheim, Norway, August 17-22, 2003.
http://www.ecdl2003.org/
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Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL)
Annual conference sponsored by the ACM and the IEEE Computer Society. Site includes links to
proceedings and related conferences.
http://www.jcdl.org/
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Greenstone Digital Library Software
Open-source software produced by the New Zealand Digital Library Project under the terms of the GNU
General Public License, and developed and distributed in cooperation with UNESCO and the Human Info
NGO.
http://www.greenstone.org/
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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.
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/digi-eval.html
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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 will complete in May 2004.
http://www.cie.uce.ac.uk/evalued/
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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.
http://coloradodigital.coalliance.org/contents.html
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Fedora: Flexible Extensible Digital Object and Repository Architecture
Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and jointly developed by the University of Virginia and
Cornell University, Fedora is a general-purpose open-source digital object repository system that
can be used in whole or part to support a variety of uses.
http://www.fedora.info/
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Building Sustainable Collections of Free Third-Party Web Resources
A report by Louis A. Pitschmann that identifies and synthesizes existing practices used in
developing collections of free third-party Internet resources that support higher education and
research.
http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub98/contents.html
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Selecting Research Collections for Digitisation
Abstract and full text of book from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR),
providing detailed planning information and discusses selection criteria, imaging standards, rights
management issues, preservation concerns, and impact of digitization on the library and its users.
http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub74.html
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Beyond the Beginning: The Global Digital Library
Proceedings of the international conference organised by UKOLN, held 16th and 17th June 1997,
London. Full text provides broad historical perspective.
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/services/papers/bl/blri078/content/
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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.
http://www.dpconline.org/
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DIGLIB Mailing List
For digital library researchers, developers and librarians, hosted by the IFLA.
http://www.ifla.org/II/lists/diglib.htm
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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.
http://mirrored.ukoln.ac.uk/lis-journals/dlib/dlib/dlib/october98/10pinfield.html
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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.
http://images.library.uiuc.edu/projects/dchc/
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NSF/DARPA/NASA Digital Libraries Initiative: A Program Manager's Perspective
Describes the Digital Libraries Initiative and focuses on how management can implement it.
http://mirrored.ukoln.ac.uk/lis-journals/dlib/dlib/dlib/july98/07griffin.html
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Modeling Users' Successive Searches in Digital Environments: A National Science Foundation/British Library Funded Study
Research project to investigate the nature, manifestations, and behavior of successive users in
digital environments, and to derive criteria for use in the design of information retrieval
interfaces and systems supporting successive searching behavior.
http://mirrored.ukoln.ac.uk/lis-journals/dlib/dlib/dlib/april98/04spink.html
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Interactive Digital Library Resource Information System (i-DLR)
A collection of resources created by graduate students at the School of Information Science and
Learning Technologies (SISLT) at the University of Missouri-Columbia.
http://tiger.coe.missouri.edu/~rafee/iDLR/
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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.
http://lockss.stanford.edu/
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Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography.
Section 6.2 of the list of references by Charles W. Bailey, Jr. based at the University of Houston
Libraries.
http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/lbdiglib.htm
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Digital Reference Services Bibliography
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.
http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/~b-sloan/digiref.html
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Journal of Digital Information (JODI)
A peer reviewed e-journal supported by the British Computer Society and Oxford University Press.
http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/
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DELOS Network of Excellence
An initiative funded by the European Commission's Information Society Technologies 5th Framework
Programme (IST-FP5) to support and encourage research activities.
http://delos-noe.iei.pi.cnr.it/
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Digital Library Network
Workshop and conference proceedings from the University of Library and Information Science, Tsukuba
Science City, Japan. Also available in Japanese.
http://www.dl.ulis.ac.jp/
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Digital Library Federation
Developing the means of creating, maintaining, expanding, and preserving a distributed collection
of digital materials.
http://www.diglib.org/dlfhomepage.htm
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Digital Libraries Initiative
Supporting research and projects furthering the development of digital libraries. Includes links to
projects, tools, and resources.
http://dli.grainger.uiuc.edu/national.htm
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University of Michigan Digital Library Project
Project documents and information.
http://www.si.umich.edu/UMDL/
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Digital Library Project
Project documents and information from the University of California at Berkeley.
http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu/
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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.
http://diglib.stanford.edu/
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Rutgers Distributed Laboratory for Digital Libraries
Interdisciplinary environment designed to address research and educational issues relevant to
development, understanding and implementation.
http://scils.rutgers.edu/RDLDL/
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National Digital Library Program
Program information and resources for the Library of Congress digitization programs.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/dli2/html/lcndlp.html
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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.
http://www.nyu.edu/its/humanities/ninchguide/
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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.
http://comm.nsdlib.org/
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OpenDLib (ODL)
A project to develop a software toolkit hosted by the National Research Council (Italy), with some
technical information available.
http://www.opendlib.com
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ARL Digital Initiatives Database
A registry of initiatives, provided jointly by the University of Illinois and the Association of
Research Libraries.
http://www.arl.org/did/
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Canadian Initiative on Digital Libraries
To promote, coordinate and facilitates the development of collections and services. Contains
information about policies, members, activities and links; also available in French.
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/cidl/
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The development of digital libraries for blind and visually impaired people, Ariadne Issue 30
Report on a selection of papers presented in Washington at the 2001 IFLA pre-conference for the
Section of Libraries for the Blind (SLB).
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue30/ifla/
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Research Institute on Digital Libraries (RIDL)
Institute based at the University of Middlesex working on various funded projects concerning the
design and use of Digital Libraries.
http://www.cs.mdx.ac.uk/ridl/index.html
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MALIBU (MAnaging the hybrid LIbrary for the Benefit of Users)
A collaborative project led by King's College with partners in Oxford University and the University
of Southampton.
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/malibu/
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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 - the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and the UK.
http://www.desire.org/
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Digital Services Project
Program documents from the National Library of Australia.
http://www.nla.gov.au/dsp/
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Informedia
The digital library research project of Carnegie Mellon University.
http://www.informedia.cs.cmu.edu/
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Digital Library Resources
Library of Congress internet resource page divided into general resources and organizations.
http://lcweb.loc.gov/loc/ndlf/digital.html
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Digital Library Initiatives Group
Planning and implementation documents from the University of Arizona.
http://www.library.arizona.edu/library/teams/access98/aptdig4.htm
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IEEE Technical Committee on Digital Libraries (TCDL)
Promotes research in the theory and practice of all aspects of Collective Memory, established in
1997 by the IEEE Computer Society.
http://www.ieee-tcdl.org/
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Digital Library Initiatives
Planning information, project examples, publications and links at North Carolina State University.
http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/dli/index.html
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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.
http://www.dlib.org/
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Digital Libraries: Resources and Projects
Collection of resources from the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions
(IFLA).
http://www.ifla.org/II/diglib.htm
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Digital Library Research Programme
Information about the current projects at the British Library Research and Innovation Centre.
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/services/bl/
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Palo Alto Research Centre (PARC)
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.
http://www.parc.com/groups/istl/
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Design and Implementation of a Digital Library
Article by James Richvalsky and David Watkins, describing the design and implementation process in
creating a digital library. Includes link to Spanish version.
http://www.acm.org/crossroads/xrds5-2/diglib.html
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Parity Computing
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.
http://www.paritycomputing.com/
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Cornell Institute for Digital Collections
Information and resources regarding Cornell University's digitization projects.
http://CIDC.library.cornell.edu/
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Digital Libraries Initiative Projects
Phase II information from the National Science Foundation.
http://www.dli2.nsf.gov/
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Technical Advisory Service for Images (TASI)
Supports the academic community on the creation, storage and delivery of image-related information,
and also offers digitisation advice.
http://www.tasi.ac.uk/
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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.
http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/
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Antarctica Systems
Information on Visual Net, information visualization software.
http://www.antarti.ca/
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