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.
Antarctica Systems - Information on Visual Net, information visualization software.
ARL Digital Initiatives Database - A registry of initiatives, provided jointly by the University of Illinois and the Association of Research Libraries.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
DIGI-EVAL - Mailing list to support the Evalued project and enable discussion of issues concerning the evaluation of electronic library initiatives.
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.
Digital Libraries Initiative - Supporting research and projects furthering the development of digital libraries. Includes links to projects, tools, and resources.
Digital Library Network - Workshop and conference proceedings from the University of Library and Information Science, Tsukuba Science City, Japan. Also available in Japanese.
Digital Library Project - Project documents and information from the University of California at Berkeley.
Digital Library Resources - Library of Congress internet resource page divided into general resources and organizations.
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.
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.
DIGLIB Mailing List - For digital library researchers, developers and librarians, hosted by the IFLA.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
OpenDLib (ODL) - A project to develop a software toolkit hosted by the National Research Council (Italy), with some technical information available.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
UIUC Digital Library Testbed - Reports, presentations, publications and information from the project at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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)
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. (January 29, 2001)
Digital Library Tool Kit - 2nd Edition of the report by Dr. Peter Noerr, sponsored by Sun Microsystems in PDF format. (March, 2000)
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)
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. (August, 1998)
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. (January 19, 1998)
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- An initiative funded by the European Commission's Information Society Technologies 5th Framework Programme (IST-FP5) to support and encourage research activities.