Digital Information Services
in Enterprises: A Design Framework and Strategies
A Resource List of Case Studies, Best Practices, White Papers, Guides and Standards
T.B.
Rajashekar
National
Centre for Science Information
Indian
Institute of Science
Bangalore
– 560 012
Phone:
91-80-3601427, 3600271
E-Mail:
raja@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in
Web:
http://www.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/~raja/
Introduction:
Managers and developers of enterprise-wide digital information services will find it very useful to be aware of relevant best practices, case studies, standards and guidelines. This will facilitate them in making informed decisions during design, development and implementation of digital information services and/or during selection and purchase of solutions. A small resource list is provided here with this purpose, related to different aspects of enterprise digital information services, discussed in the tutorial. Focus is predominantly on demonstrable, practical issues. In this sense, the list is not a conventional bibliography or citation list. Most of the material is available online. The list is by no means exhaustive and needs improvement, in terms of coverage, information and presentation. All links were tested for currency as on November 2001. Hope this effort will be found useful.
Contents:
1. Content publishing (selection, evaluation, creation
and capture)
2. Content preservation and archiving
3. Content organization
3.1. General
3.2. Cataloguing and metadata
3.3. Classification, indexing and thesauri
3.4. Gateways and portals
3.5. Site design, information architecting and style guides
4. Content storage, search, retrieval and resource
discovery
5. Access Management
6. Usage monitoring and metrics
7. User studies, training and promotion
8. Interoperability, networking and sharing
9. Project planning and management
10. ASP services
11. Open source software
12. Open access digital material
13. Other sources
Resource List:
1. Content Publishing (selection, creation, capture and
publishing)
How do we select sources for
digitizing, select and evaluate available digital sources (local and remote),
create and capture digital material, and publish this on intranet/ Internet?
What technologies and workflows are relevant?
Moving Theory into Practice:
Digital Imaging for Libraries and Archives.
Anne R. Kenney and Oya Y.
Rieger. Research Libraries Group, 2000.
http://www.rlg.org/preserv/mtip2000.html
Digital Imaging: Imaging and
imagebases.
Stanford University
Libraries. June 2001.
http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/bytopic/imaging/
Digital workflow: Managing the process electronically.
Linda Beebe and Barbara
Meyers. The Journal of Electronic Publishing. 5,4;June 2000. http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/05-04/sheridan.html
Selection and Presentation of
Commercially Available Electronic Resources: Issues and Practices.
Timothy D. Jewell. Council on
Library and Information Resources (CLIR). July 2001
http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub99abst.html
Building Sustainable
Collections of Free Third-Party Web Resources.
Louis A. Pitschmann. Council
on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). June 2001
http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub98abst.html
Specification for resource
description methods Part 2: Selection Criteria for Quality Controlled
Information Gateways.
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/DESIRE/quality/report.rtf
Selective subject gateways on the Internet are characterized by their quality
control. The core activities of resource selection and description rely on
skilled human input (by librarians, academics and experts) and are not
activities that lend themselves to automation. This report describes methods
and tools that have been created to assist the staff of subject gateways to
develop and maintain their quality control systems.
Strategies for Building
Digitized Collections.
Abby Smith. Council on
Library and Information Resources (CLIR). September 2001
http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub101abst.html
Building Digital
Collections:Technical Information and Background Papers.
Library of Congress. April
2000.
http://rs6.loc.gov/ammem/ftpfiles.html
Digitizing images and text.
Berkeley DL Sunsite.
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Imaging/
African Digital Library Project.
http://africandl.org/bestpractices/decide/decide.html
African Digital Library Project.
http://africandl.org/bestpractices/text/text.html
African Digital Library Project.
http://africandl.org/bestpractices/image/image_digitization.htm
African Digital Library Project.
http://africandl.org/bestpractices/audio/audiodigitizationworking.html
Digitizing Archives Not So
Easy
Kendra Mayfield.
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,42842,00.html?tw=wn20010409
Workflow for creation and
submission of theses in the NDLTD system.
http://www.ndltd.org/workflow/index.htm
Information Quality World
Wide Web Virtual Library
http://www.ciolek.com/WWWVL-InfoQuality.html
The Internet Guide to
Construction of Quality Online Resources
Internet Detective
http://www.sosig.ac.uk/desire/internet-detective.html
Online tutorial for Internet
site evaluation
2. Content Preservation, Archiving and Maintenance
How to ensure currency of
content? How do we ensure perpetuity and long-term access through time and
changing technologies?
Conservation OnLine:Resources for Conservation Professionals.
Preservation Department of Stanford University Libraries.
http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/
A strategic policy framework for creating and preserving digital collections.
Neil Beagrie and Daniel Greenstein. King's College,
London. Version
5.0, 14/7/98. Updated July 2001
by Christopher Pressler. Arts and Humanities Data Service
http://ahds.ac.uk/strategic.pdf
Best Practices for Digital
Archiving: An Information Life Cycle Approach.
Gail Hodge. D-Lib Magazine. 6,1; 2000 January. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january00/01hodge.html
Handbook for Digital
Projects: A Management Tool for Preservation and Access
Maxine K. Sitts, Editor.
Northeast Document Conservation Center. 2000.
http://www.nedcc.org/digital/dighome.htm
Full text publication
outlining a rationale for digitization and preservation. Considers issues
involved in project management, the selection process of materials for
scanning, copyright issues, technical concerns, the development of best
practices, vendor relations, and digital longevity.
Management, Appraisal and
Preservation of Electronic Records. Volume 1: Principles, Volume 2: Procedures.
Public Records Office, The
National Archives, Govt. of UK.
http://www.pro.gov.uk/recordsmanagement/eros/guidelines/
Guidelines for Information
about Preservation Products
National Information
Standards Organization (NISO). ANSI/NISO Z39.77-2001
http://www.techstreet.com/cgi-bin/detail?product_id=879717
Preservation Planning:
Guidelines for Writing a Long-Range Plan
National Information
Standards Organization (NISO).
http://www.techstreet.com/cgi-bin/detail?product_id=55078
Stability, Care, and Handling
of Microforms, Magnetic Media, and Optical Disks
National Information
Standards Organization (NISO)
http://www.techstreet.com/cgi-bin/detail?product_id=55080
The Future of the Past:
Preservation in American Research Libraries.
Abby Smith. Council on
Library and Information Resources (CLIR). April 1999
http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub82abst.html
3. Content Organization
How the content is
organized? What intellectual organization we want to impose on digital sources?
How do we describe and encode content at metadata and primary source level?
What cataloguing and markup standards are relevant? How do we architect the website
for providing single point access to all relevant sources?
3.1 General
Knowledge organisation for a
new millennium: principles and processes. Jennifer Rowley. Journal of Knowledge
Management. 4,3; 2000
Where is meaning when form is
gone? Knowledge representation on the web. Terrence A. Brooks. Information
Research. 6,2;Janurary 2001.
http://www.shef.ac.uk/~is/publications/infres/6-2/paper93.html
3.2 Cataloguing and Metadata
ROADS cataloguing guidelines.
M. Day. UKOLN The UK Office for Library and Information
Networking, 1998.
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/roads/cataloguing/cataloguing-rules.html
Issues in Crosswalking
Content Metadata Standards
Margaret St. Pierre and
William P. LaPlant, Jr.
NISO White Paper. October 15,
1998
http://www.niso.org/press/whitepapers/crsswalk.html
Dublin Core Metadata
Initiative (DCMI): Dublin Core Qualifiers
http://dublincore.org/documents/2000/07/11/dcmes-qualifiers/
Describes the principles
governing the Dublin Core element refinement and encoding scheme qualifiers.
Also provides a summary and definitions approved by the DCMI Usage Committee.
Dublin Core Metadata
Initiative (DCMI): Dublin Core Metadata
The Dublin Core is a
15-element metadata set intended to facilitate discovery of electronic
resources. Originally conceived for author-generated description of Web
resources, it has also attracted the attention of formal resource description
communities such as museums and libraries.
IMS Metadata
http://www.imsproject.org/metadata/
Details of the Instructional
Management Systems Project (IMS) which is developing a specification and
software for managing online learning resources in order to assist effective
discovery and management of educational materials, including intellectual
property rights, commerce, and customization of learning experiences.
Metadata Index Demonstrator
http://builder.bham.ac.uk/MDI/
The aim of this demonstrator
was to produce a high level metadata index to printed and electronic
information resources held in a variety of formats (for example, Web-based
resources, electronic online databases and CD-ROMs).
Dr. Tom's Meta-Data Guide
IMS Global Learning
Consortium, Inc.
http://www.imsproject.org/drtommeta.html
The Dublin Core Metadata
Element Set
ANSI/NISO Z39.85-2001
(standard)
http://www.techstreet.com/cgi-bin/detail?product_id=926135
Codes for the Representation
of Languages for Information Interchange
ANSI/NISO Z39.53-2000
(standard)
http://www.techstreet.com/cgi-bin/detail?product_id=924637
Metadata Made Simpler: A
guide for libraries
Gail Hodge. 2001.
National Information
Standards Organization
http://www.techstreet.com/cgi-bin/detail?product_id=924055
Holdings Statements for
Bibliographic Items
ANSI/NISO Z39.71-1999
(standard)
http://www.techstreet.com/cgi-bin/detail?product_id=101710
Serial Item &
Contribution Identifier (SICI), Z39.56-1996
ANSI/NISO Z39.56-1996
(standard)
http://www.techstreet.com/cgi-bin/detail?product_id=52629
Dublin Core Metadata Template
http://www.lub.lu.se/cgi-bin/nmdc.pl
As part of the "Nordic
Metadata Project", this document is a short description and introduction
on how to use the Nordic Metadata Creation Tool to create high quality Dublin
Core metadata. Simply describe your web page in the form below and use your
favourite text editor to paste the returned HTML into your page between the
<HEAD> and </HEAD> elements.
International Metadata
Initiatives: Lessons in Bibliographic Control
Priscilla Caplan. Florida
Center for Library Automation. June 30, 2000.
http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/bibcontrol/caplan_paper.html
Metadata in a corporate
intranet
Kelly Doran
Online. 1999,
January/February; 43- 50.
Discusses the adoption and
use of Dublin Core elements for managing intranet content in Weyerhauser, a
forest products company
3.3 Classification, Indexing and Thesauri
Software for building and
editing thesauri
Willpower Information
Information Management
Consultants
http://www.willpower.demon.co.uk/thessoft.htm
Classification, Indexing,
Metadata, and Thesauri
Libraries, UMASS, Amherst.
http://www.library.umass.edu/catalog/class.html
Database vocabularies and
indexing
Mary Sue Stephenson
The School of Library,
Archival and Information Studies. The University of British Columbia.
Winter 2001.
http://www.slais.ubc.ca/courses/arstlibr512/00-01-wt2/database1.htm
Intranet Taxonomies
Marjorie M.K. Hlava, Jay Ven
Eman. 11/16/1999
http://www.accessinn.com/ilib99/index.htm
Taxonomies: The value of
organized business knowledge.
A White paper by NewsEdge
Corp. 2001.
http://www.newsedge.com/materials/whitepapers/taxonomies.pdf
Subject Analysis and
Thesaurus Construction
Tim Craven. Faculty of
Information and Media Studies, University of Western Ontario,
London, Ontario Canada.
http://instruct.uwo.ca/gplis/677/
The role of classification
schemes in Internet resource description and discovery. A DESIRE project
deliverable.
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/desire/classification/
Extracting value from
automated classification tools: The role of manual involvement and controlled
vocabularies. Kat Hagedorn. Argus Associates. March 2001.
Using library classification
schemes for Internet resources. Diane Vizine-Goetz. http://www.oclc.org/oclc/man/colloq/v-g.htm
Role of classification
schemes in Internet resource description and discovery. Traugott Koch and
others. 19 Feb 1997.
http://www.ub.lu.se/desire/radar/reports/D3.2.3/class_v10.html
Dr. Tom's Taxonomy Guide.
IMS Global Learning
Consortium, Inc.
http://www.imsproject.org/drtomtaxonomiesguide.html
Dr. Tom's Classification
Guide.
IMS Global Learning
Consortium, Inc.
http://www.imsproject.org/drtomclassification.html
Controlled vocabularies,
thesauri and classification systems available in the WWW. DC Subject. Compiled
by Traugott Koch
http://www.lub.lu.se/metadata/subject-help.html
Thesauri on-line
http://www.fbi.fh-koeln.de/labor/bir/thesauri_new/thesen.htm
Accessing books in ICS-PAS
On-Line Catalog via ACM Classification System
http://www.ipipan.waw.pl/~klopotek/cgi-bin/cr91.htm
Beyond Bookmarks: Schemes for
Organizing the Web (Classification, Controlled Vocabulary)
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/CTW.htm
Classification on the 'Net
http://artemis.simmons.edu/~schwartz/myclass.html
Converting a controlled
vocabulary into an ontology: the case of GEM
Jian Qin and Stephen Paling
Information Research.
6,2;2001, January.
http://www.shef.ac.uk/~is/publications/infres/6-2/paper94.html
Mapping Classification
Schemes (DDC and UDC)
Debra Hiom. February 1998.
http://www.sosig.ac.uk/desire/class/mapping.html
T. Koch, A. Ardö & L.
Noodén, 'The construction of a robot-generated subject index', EU Project
DESIRE II D3.6a, Working Paper 1, 1999.
http://www.lub.lu.se/desire/DESIRE36a-WP1.html
3.4 Gateways and Portals
DESIRE Information Gateways
Handbook: Your guide to creating high quality portals on the Internet.
http://www.desire.org/handbook/welcome.html
Guide to Integrating Remote
Web Resources into a Seamless Interface
http://builder.bham.ac.uk/libtech99
ROADS: Resource Organisation
And Discovery in Subject-based services
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/roads/intro.html
The ROADS project is funded
by the UK Higher Education Councils and is part of the Electronic Libraries
Programme (eLib). ROADS provides a set of tools for creating subject-based
information gateways, including browsing classification hierarchies
Subject portals
John Clark. 2-10-2001.
Ariadne, Issue 29.
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue29/clark/intro.html
Describes a 3-year project to
develop a set of subject portals, part of the Development Programme of the
Distributed National Electronic Resource.
3.5 Site Design, Information Architecting and Style
Guides
Yale Style Manual-Intranet
site design
http://info.med.yale.edu/caim/manual/sites/intranet_design.html
The Library of Congress World
Wide Web Style Guide provides a general design framework and file structure for
staff preparing content for the Library's Web Site
http://www.loc.gov/loc/webstyle/
W3C, List of Checkpoints for
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0
http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT/checkpoint-list.html
Evaluating Information
Architecture: A practical guide to assessing web site organization.
Syeve Toub. Argus Associates.
November 2000.
The Information Architecture
Glossary.
Kat Hagderon. Argus
Associates. March 2000.
Information architecture of
the shopping cart: Best practices for the information architectures of
e-commerce ordering systems.
Sarah Bidigare. Argus
Associates. May 2000.
Analyzing the Analysts: An
information architecture analysis of top business analysts' web sites.
Chiara Fox and Keith Instone.
Argus Associates. April 2001.
4. Storage, Search, Retrieval and Resource Discovery
What digital objects are to
be handled? What types and formats? How are these stored and processed
(encoding, markup, search, display)? How do we let users know what sources can
be accessed? How do they access these? (Interface) How do we support personalization?
How do we provide single point access to digital material? What inventory and
finding aids are relevant?
A distributed architecture
for resource discovery using metadata.
M. Roszkowski & C. Lukas.
D-Lib Magazine. 1998 June.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/june98/scout/06roszkowski.html
ISO 12083 XML DTDs for
articles, books, serials and mathematics
http://www.xmlxperts.com/12083.htm
J. Kirriemuir, D. Brickley, S. Welsh, J.
Knight & M. Hamilton, 'Cross-Searching Subject Gateways - The Query Routing
and Forward Knowledge Approach', D-Lib Magazine (January 1998).
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january98/01kirriemuir.html
NLM Medline data in XML
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/sample_records_avail.html
Medlane: MARC to XML
CDL Digital Object Standard:
Metadata, Content and Encoding. California Digital Library. May 18, 2001.
Reviewed and updated annually.
http://www.cdlib.org/about/publications/CDLObjectStd-2001.pdf
CDL Digital Object Standard:
Digital Image Format Standards. California Digital Library. July 9, 2001.
Reviewed and updated annually.
http://www.cdlib.org/about/publications/CDLImageStd-2001.pdf
Unicode
XML DTD for theses
http://www.ndltd.org/xml/index.htm
XML: Libraries' Strategic
Opportunity
Dick R. Miller.
http://www.libraryjournal.com/xml.asp
Robin Cover’s SGML/XML page
http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/
XML FAQ and links to other
topics related to XML
XML4Lib: A discussion forum
related to XML use on libraries
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/XML4Lib/
Risk Management of Digital
Information: A File Format Investigation
Gregory W. Lawrence, William
R. Kehoe, Oya Y. Rieger, William H. Walters, and Anne R. Kenney. Council on
Library and Information Resources (CLIR). June 2000
http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub93abst.html
The BUILDER Hybrid Library
Demonstrator.
http://www.builder.bham.ac.uk/hld
The BUILDER Hybrid Library
Demonstrator aims to demonstrate 'seamlessness', where all resources are
accessible through the same interface. It also aims to demonstrate profiling,
where the resources offered are relevant to the needs of the individual user.
Information architecture and
personalization
Keith Instone. Argus
Associates. December 2000.
Hybrid Library Search
http://www.builder.bham.ac.uk/hls/
This practical example
demonstrates the potential of a seamless interface cross-searching a number of
web servers and document types
Clumps Projects Search
http://www.builder.bham.ac.uk/cps/
This practical example
demonstrates the potential of a seamless interface cross-searching a number of
web servers and document types
Institutional Search Engine
Demonstrator
http://www.builder.bham.ac.uk/newsearch/
The demonstrator is a
combination of technologies but principally demonstrates the idea of the
seamless interface. Although different technologies provide different
functionality, the user is shielded and remains in the same familiar
environment.
5. Access Management
How do we enable and control
access to EDIS? What authentication schemes are relevant? How do we establish
content ownership? How do we protect, respect and meter licenses?
Athens: Access Management System
http://www.athens.ac.uk/
The Athens service enables access to numerous datasets and
information services throughout the UK and overseas. Further datasets and
services continue to be added and include a wide range of services both from
the academic and publishing communities. The key features of the service
include "single password sign-on" to multiple resources and fully
distributed management of user accounts. The service is used by all UK HE institutions,
an increasing number FE colleges and over half the NHS
Authenticity and Integrity in
the Digital Environment: An Exploratory Analysis of the Central Role of Trust.
Clifford Lynch. Coalition for
Networked Information.
http://www.cni.org/projects/authentication/authentication-wp.html
This paper seeks to
illuminate several issues surrounding the ideas of authenticity, integrity, and
provenance in the networked information environment.
Access Management for
Networked Information Resources.
Clifford Lynch.
CAUSE/EFFECT journal.
21,4;1998
http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/html/cem9842.html
This article is intended to
briefly describe the crux of the access management problem and the two major
architectural approaches that are now coming into use to address it.
A White Paper on
Authentication and Access Management Issues in Cross-organizational Use of
Networked Information Resources.
Clifford Lynch. Coalition for
Networked Information. Revised Discussion Draft of April 14, 1998.
http://www.cni.org/projects/authentication/authentication-wp.html
Digital Object Identifier
(DOI)
The Digital Object Identifier
(DOI) system was designed by the Association of American Publishers to provide
a unique identification for digital content and a way to link users of the
materials to the rights holders, and to facilitate automated digital commerce.
Solving access problems with
open source software
Howard Ricahrdson. Online
2001, January/February; 17-22
Discusses the use of
Junkbuster, a GNU licensed web filtering and proxy server software for
controlling use of web access from within the library.
Enabling Access in Digital
Libraries: A Report on a Workshop on Access Management by Caroline Arms.
Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). February 1999.
http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub79.html
Technical Requirements for
Database Vendors
California Digital Library.
May 2001.
http://www.cdlib.org/about/publisher_info_pub/CDL_DB_Vendor_Req_50401.rtf
European Copyright User
Platform
Portal for improving
awareness on copyright amongst librarians and information professionals
-licensing and technical issues and projects.
Syntax for the Digital Object
Identifier.
ANSI/NISO Z39.84-2000
National Information
Standards Organization
Abstract: Defines the order
and composition of the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) used to identify
intellectual property in the digital environment.
Licensing Digital Information
(Software)
http://www.library.yale.edu/~llicense/software.shtml
Liblicense: Licensing Digital
Information - A Resource for Librarians
http://www.library.yale.edu/~llicense/
Example statements of
copyright, digital rights:
·
African DL Draft
http://africandl.org/rightsstatement/rightsstatement.html
·
American Memory,
Copyright, and Other Restrictions
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/copyrit2.html
·
National Archives,
U.S.A.: Terms and Conditions for Using Our Web Site
http://www.nara.gov/nara/terms.html
·
National Archives,
Australia: About this Site
http://www.naa.gov.au/About_this_Site/about_this_site.html
6. Usage Monitoring and Metrics
How do we know what digital
sources are being used (and not used)? How much and by whom? How is our system
performing? How do we evaluate digital information services?
Web Metrics and Evaluation:
Current State of Implementation Among the CENDI Agencies PHASE 1 Submitted by
CENDI Metrics and Evaluation Task Group Sponsored by CENDI User Education
Working Group. Prepared by Gail Hodge Information International Associates,
Inc. Oak Ridge, Tennessee August 2000
http://www.dtic.mil/cendi/publications/00-2web_met_eval.html
White Paper on Electronic
Journal Usage Statistics
Judy Luther. Council on
Library and Information Resources. October 2000
http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub94abst.html
The California Digital
Library: Key Indicators of Collections and Use: January-December 2000.
California Digital Library. June 2001.
http://www.cdlib.org/about/publications/2000_annual_profile.pdf
Specialized Remote User Education: Web-Based
Tutorials for Engineering Graduate Students
Susan Ardis and Jennifer Haas. Issues in Science and Technology
Librarianship. Number 32, Fall 2001.
http://www.library.ucsb.edu/istl/01-fall/
Gateway services promotional
material examples:
·
Biz/ed: PDF
(bized-flyer.pdf)
http://www.desire.org/handbook/images/bized-flyer.pdf
·
Port: PDF
(port-leaflet.pdf)
http://www.desire.org/handbook/images/port-leaflet.pdf
·
OMNI: PDF
(omni-leaflet4.pdf)
http://www.desire.org/handbook/images/omni-leaflet4.pdf
Guidelines for the Use of CDL
Resources for Research
California Digital Library.
May 2001. http://www.cdlib.org/about/publications/cdlresearchguidelines.pdf
Finding Information on the Internet:
A Tutorial
Joe Barker. University of
California, Berkeley.
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/FindInfo.html
Illustration of how libraries
can integrate Internet search instruction into library website
The Internet Public Library -
Web searching
http://www.ipl.org/ref/websearching.html
Illustration of how libraries
can integrate Internet search instruction into library website
Web-based tutorials for
bibliographic databases
American University of
Beirut, Libya
http://www.aub.edu.lb/libraries/medical/ues/biblio.html
Development of Web-Based
Tutorials For Online Databases
Anne M. Prestamo. Low
Library, Oklahoma State University.
http://www.library.ucsb.edu/istl/98-winter/article3.html
Tips for Developing Effective
Web-Based Library Instruction
http://www.lib.vt.edu/istm/WebTutorialsTips.html
Web Based Learning: On-Line
Articles
http://www.wested.org/tie/dlrn/articles.html
Chemical information:
bibliographic databases
http://www.lib.lsu.edu/sci/chem/courses/tutor/chem1.html
The University of Birmingham
Exam Paper Database: An analysis of user accesses and feedback from 19 December
1998 to 25 June 1999
http://builder.bham.ac.uk/reports/html/exam.asp
Student attitudes towards
electronic information resources.
Kathryn Ray and Joan Day.
Information Research. 4,2;October 1998. http://www.shef.ac.uk/~is/publications/infres/paper54.html
Managing Online Information
to Maximize Corporate Intranet ROI, July 2001.
Outsell, Inc. July 2001.
Survey of 6,400 knowledge
workers.
Outsell’s Third Annual Survey
of Corporate Information Professionals
Outsell, Inc. July 2001.
JISC User Behaviour
Monitoring and Evaluation Framework - First Annual Report
August 2000.
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/pub00/m&e_rep1.html
How scientists retrieve publications: An empirical study of
how the Internet is overtaking paper media. Bo-christer Bjork and Ziga Turk. The Journal of Electronic Publishing. 6,2;December
2000.
http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/06-02/bjork.html
8. Interoperability, Networking and Sharing
How do we network with other
similar services? How do we federate access to different collections within and
across enterprises? How different digital information services inter-operate,
exchange information and help users to find information?
Standards in the CHIC-Pilot
Distributed Indexing Architecture
http://www.terena.nl/libr/tech/chic-fr.html
Paper describes a project to
investigate the feasibility of setting up a large-scale distributed indexing
service for searching Web-based research information, and of providing a
unified interface for users through the use of different standards and
protocols.
Internet, Interoperability
and Standards Filling the Gaps
Janifer Gatenby. NISO White
Paper. August 23, 2000
http://www.niso.org/press/whitepapers/Gatenby.html
Open Archives Initiative
(OAI)
The OAI is an international
initiative to develop a technical framework for the effective dissemination and
interchange of content among digital repositories.
The Open Archives Initiative
Protocol for Metadata Harvesting
Protocol Version 1.1 of
2001-07-02
http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.htm
The goal of the
Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (referred to as the
OAI protocol in the remainder of this document) is to supply and promote an
application-independent interoperability framework that can be used by a
variety of communities who are engaged in publishing content on the Web
Crossref and reference
linking.
A Guide to Global Z39.50
William E. Moen and Morgan S.
Tucker
National Information
Standards Organization. 01-Dec-1999
http://www.techstreet.com/cgi-bin/detail?product_id=55064
Z39.50 is an international
standard for communication between computer systems primarily, library and
information related systems
ANSI/NISO Z39.84-2000
Syntax for the Digital Object
Identifier, Z39.84-2000
http://www.techstreet.com/cgi-bin/detail?product_id=229050
High-Level Thesaurus Project.
http://hilt.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/
The High-Level Thesaurus project
aims to research, report, and make recommendations on the problems of
cross-searching and browsing by subject across a range of communities,
services,and service or resource types.
The Virtual Union Catalog:A
Comparative Study.
Karen Coyle.California
Digital Library.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march00/coyle/03coyle.html
CORC: The OCLC Cooperative
Online Resource Catalog
http://www.oclc.org/corc/
The OCLC Cooperative Online
Resource Catalog service is a metadata creation system for bibliographic
records and pathfinders describing electronic resources. You choose which
electronic resources to catalog: local and web-based. CORC helps you provide
your users with well-guided access to electronic resources
9. Project Planning and Management
How do we plan and manage
enterprise –wide digital information services? What digital information
technologies and other resources are required? How do we deploy these?
Building and Sustaining
Digital Collections: Models for Libraries and Museums
Council on Library and
Information Resources. August 2001.
http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub100abst.html
Using examples of six
enterprises - JSTOR, HighWire Press, The International Center for Photography
and George Eastman House, Questia Media, Inc., Art Museum Network, and Fathom,
the report illustrates the differing approaches being used to extend the reach
of collections and services online.
Making of America project,
The Making of America II testbed project white paper
Version 1.03, March 16 1998.
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/MOA2/wp-v1_03.html
Digitisation of exam papers.
Andrew Hampson et al. The
Electronic Library, 17,4;Aug 1999;239-46.
Discusses complete workflow,
project planning and management for digitizing and providing intranet access to
exam papers.
The Making of America II
Testbed Project: A Digital Library Service Model
Bernard J. Hurley, John
Price-Wilkin, Merrilee Proffitt, and Howard Besser. Council on Library and
Information Resources. December 1999.
http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub87abst.html
Establishing a digital
library centre.
John Kirriemuir. 2-10-2001.
Ariadne, Issue 29.
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue29/kirriemuir/intro.html
Outlines some of the issues
that need to be considered when determining whether to establish a digital
library centre in a U.K. higher education institution
Digitization for Scholarly
Use: The Boswell Papers Project at The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript
Library. Nicole Bouché. Council on Library and Information Resources. March
1999
http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub81.html
Tools for Managing the
Digital Library: Guidelines and Sample RFPs
NISO.
http://www.techstreet.com/cgi-bin/detail?product_id=55073
Building a Digital Library:
Concepts and Issues.
NISO.
http://www.techstreet.com/cgi-bin/detail?product_id=55072
The Digital Library Toolkit.
Sun Microsystems. Second
Edition. March 2000.
The Digital Library
Triumvirate: Content, Collaboration, and Technology
John Ober.
http://syllabus.com/syllabusmagazine/article.asp?id=3500
Describes a single point of
access to digital materials for historical and cultural scholarship, the
Japanese American Relocation Digital Archive (JARDA) is a model of a
collaboratively constructed gateway to the documentation of an era. JARDA is an
initiative of the California Digital Library project.
TULIP: Final Report (The
University Licensing Project)
Elsevier. 1996.
http://www.elsevier.nl/homepage/about/resproj/trmenu.htm
10. ASP (Application
Service Providers) services
Examples of web-based
electronic publishing solution providers.
AllAcademic
http://www.allacademic.com/about.html
Apart from an open access
resource for journal-based literature, AllAcademic also supports publishing by
authors. A pair of faculty members at the University of Oregon founded the site
in the fall of 1999. Much of the content consists of articles and book reviews
from several hundred journals
Blueskyscholars.
http://www.blueskyscholars.com/
Provides a complete web-based
journal production system for scholars and institutions.
netLibrary
http://www.netlibrary.com/index.asp
With netLibrary, you can
create a custom digital library by purchasing collections of eBooks on subjects
ranging from anthropology to zoology, to business, computer science, literature
and more. A library purchases a collection of titles just as they would print
titles. netLibrary handles all of the technology and hosts the eBooks from our
servers. The library determines the authentication strategy - patrons can find
eBooks through eBook MARC records in the OPAC, or from the library website. As
with print books, only one patron at a time may access each copy of an eBook.
The library sets the checkout time for each eBook through our secure Library
Resource Center. The Library Resource Center also allows you to see usage and
collection development reports. netLibrary offers more than 37,000 eBook titles
CUPID Consortium for
University Printing and Information Distribution
http://www.cni.org/projects/CUPID/cupid-intro.html
CUPID is an informal and open
consortium of universities interested in the distributed printing over the
Internet of finished, high-quality, production documents
11. Open Source Tools and Software (illustrative list)
Examples of open source
software for IR and DL.
ROADS Software/Documentation
http://www.roads.lut.ac.uk/
Free Software Foundation and
the GNU Project
Sleepy-Cat Software
http://www.sleepycat.com/
Welcome to Sleepycat Software, the home of the Open Source embedded database
system Berkeley DB! Berkeley DB is a programmatic toolkit that provides fast, reliable,
scalable, and mission-critical database support to software developers
Greenstone digital library
software
http://www.greenstone.org/english/home.html
Greenstone is a suite of
software, which has the ability to serve digital library collections and build
new collections. It provides a new way of organizing information and publishing
it on the Internet or on CD-ROM. Greenstone is produced by the New Zealand
Digital Library Project at the University of Waikato, and distributed in
cooperation with UNESCO and the Humanities Library Project. It is open-source
software, available from download page under the terms of the GNU General
Public License.
Software for building and
editing thesauri
Willpower
Information.Information Management Consultants.
http://www.willpower.demon.co.uk/thessoft.htm
WODA: The Web Oriented
Database
WODA is a Perl program that
manages web-oriented, semi-relational, multimedia databases. It allows them to
be defined, maintained, added-to, modified, and queried entirely through the
WWW and without programming.
Perlfect Search 3.20 - Free
site indexer and search engine script.
http://perlfect.com/freescripts/search/
Perlfect Search is a
sophisticated, powerful, versatile, customizable and effective site
indexing/searching suite available under an open source licence. It comes as a
pair of disctinct scripts. The indexer, that automatically scans and indexes a
web site, and the search engine, a cgi script that serves search queries for
keywords over the index, and displays results pages in html, in a standard
format including title, description and relevance ranking for each matching
document.
Software for information architects.
Peter Morville. February 19
2001.
http://argus-acia.com/strange_connections/strange011.html
eprints.org
self archiving and repository
software version: 1.1.2
(29/08/2001)
Comparing Open Source
Indexers
http://www.infomotions.com/musings/opensource-indexers/
Brief review and links to
open source indexing softwsares: freeWAIS-sf, Harvest, Ht://Dig, Isite/Isearch,
MPS, SWISH, WebGlimpse, and Yaz/Zebra.
University of Michigan
Digital Library eXtension Service (DLXS)
The University of Michigan
Digital Library eXtension Service (DLXS) provides the foundation and the
framework for educational and non-profit institutions to fully develop their
digital library collections. DLXS's impressive and comprehensive suite of tools
-- including a powerful search engine and an array of class-based middleware --
has for years served as the cornerstone for digital library services and
resources at the University of Michigan, including the Making of America
collection, the Humanities Text Initiative, and the Library's Image Services
program. DLXS consists of two components: A set of "classes" with
associated middleware, all available as free Open Source resources, and a
licensed (and not free) search engine, XPAT.
12. Open Access Digital Material
12.1 Courseware
Examples of courseware on the
Web.
Managing the digital
enterprise
http://www.ecommerce.ncsu.edu/topics/index.html
Welcome to Managing the
Digital Enterprise, an online guide to the literature about e-commerce. The
site was launched in January 1999 by Professor Michael Rappa to be used in
conjunction with a graduate-level course taught at North Carolina State
University.
Computing
Methods for Digital Libraries
Spring
2000
Professor
William Y. Arms
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/cs502-sp00/
12.2 Subject Gateways and Specialty Search Engines
Scirus
- For Scientific Information Only
Internet
search tool developed by Elsevier focusing on scientific information on the
Internet.
Pinakes:
A subject launchpad
http://www.hw.ac.uk/libWWW/irn/pinakes/pinakes.html
Links
to the major subject gateways.
Biz/ed - Business and Economics Education on the Internet
EEVL - The Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library
NMM Port
http://www.port.nmm.ac.uk/
Online catalogue of high quality maritime related Internet resources
OMNI - Organising Medical Networked Information
SOSIG - The Social Science Information Gateway
ICSU Navigator for Primary
Scientific Publications (Earth Sciences)
http://eos.wdcb.ru/icsu/navigator/navy.htm
The main goal of this project
- to create representative source of information on the primary scientific
publications in all disciplines covered by the International Council for
Science (ICSU). The database basically will include descriptions of and links
to materials, which are considered as primary scientific publications, i.e.
scientific journals, serials and other relevant publications, which are
published or approved by ICSU bodies as publications containing real science.
The latter is the main criteria for including a publication into the ICSU
Navigator database.
12.3 Secondary
Databases
Infotrieve
Access to over 20 million bibliographic
references, with variety of related services.
PubSci
Access to publications
resulting from U.S. Govt. funded research.
BibEc
http://netec.mcc.ac.uk/BibEc.html
BibEc is a volunteer effort
to provide access to bibliographic information on printed working papers in
economics published on the Internet.
Medline - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/databases/freemedl.html
(PubMed - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
National Library of medicine
provides free access to 11 million references from Biomedical literature.
12.4 Digital Libraries
Research Index – The NECI
Scientific Literature Digital Library
ARC
Cross Archive Searching Service
Arc
is an experimental research service of Digital Library Research group at Old
Dominion University. Arc is used to investigate issues in harvesting OAI
compliant repositories and making them accessible through a unified search
interface. It is not a production service and may be subject to unscheduled
service interruptions and anomalies.
The
Internet Archive
http://www.archive.org/index.html
The
Internet Archive is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural
artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to
researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public in accordance with
our Terms of Use.
New Zealand Digital Library
Networked Computer Science
Technical Reference Library
http://cs-tr.cs.cornell.edu/ http://www.ncstrl.org/
Networked Digital Library of
Theses and Dissertations
http://www.ndltd.org/ http://www.theses.org/
Arxiv
e-prints and re-prints
archive server for Physics and Mathematics (formerly xxx.lanl.gov)
American Memory Collections
National Digital Library
Programme - Library of Congress
American Memory is a gateway
to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the
United States. The site offers more than 7 million digital items from more than
100 historical collections. Each of
these collections contains a document, entitled 'Building the Digital
Collection', which describes how the collection was digitized and what
technology was used, workflow and production, rights and restrictions, and
background papers (see under 'Technical Information' from the home page
Florida International
University Digital Library
Project details at http://www.fiu.edu/~diglib/
The FIU Digital Library
consists of multimedia collections designed to support the research and
instructional goals of the University. Current collections focus on Latin
American history and politics, decorative and propaganda arts, ancient
architecture, the Florida environment, religion, and FIU history.
Digital Library Gateway
Search
The Gateway Search allows the
user to submit a search across multiple digital libraries and/or library
catalogs.
http://fiudl.fiu.edu/servlet/FIUGateway
The University of Arizona
Library SABIO Information Gateway
http://dizzy.library.arizona.edu/
Good demonstration of
integrating local, remote and Internet search
eScholarship and California
Digital Library
http://escholarship.cdlib.org/
An initiative of the
California Digital Library project, eScholarship aims to facilitate development
of a financially sustainable model for managing scholarly information,
including its production as well as its access and use
These are some important
organizational level resources, which can provide wealth of information of
relevance to managers, developers and implementers of EDIS.
CENDI - Federal STI Managers
Group
http://www.dtic.mil/cendi/cendi_home.html
CENDI is an interagency
working group of senior Scientific and Technical Information Managers from ten
major programs in nine U.S. Federal Agencies (NTIS, Energy, Defence, NASA,
etc.) Look under 'Archives', 'Projects' and 'STI Manager' for current projects,
practices and publications related to DIS.
Council on Library and
Information Resources
CLIR identifies critical
issues that affect the welfare and prospects of libraries and archives;
convenes individuals and organizations in the best position to engage these
issues; and encourages institutions to work collaboratively to achieve change
DELOS: Network of Excellence
in Digital Libraries
DELOS provides an open
context in which an international research agenda for future research
activities in the digital libraries domain can be developed and continuously
updated.
Arts and Humanities Data
Service
The AHDS is a UK national
service funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee and the Arts and
Humanities Research Board. Our team is here to help you discover, create and
preserve digital collections in all areas of the arts and humanities.
Coalition for Networked
Information (CNI)
http://www.cni.org/organization.html
The Coalition for Networked
Information (CNI) is an organization designed to advance the transformative
promise of networked information technology for the improvement of scholarly
communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity.
Digital Library Federation:
Standards and Practices
http://www.clir.org/diglib/standards.htm
IFLA Electronic Collections
http://www.ifla.org/II/index.htm
Library & information
science, Internet & networking, digital libraries, information policy,
government information and official publications resources
Berkeley digital library
Sunsite
Desire - Development of a European Service
for Information on Research and Education, http://www.desire.org/