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This report documents the technical development and production processes for History E-Book Project titles (see at :http://www.historyebook.org/titlelist.html#anchor488084). Of interest to scholars, publishers, librarians, and others interested in the development of e-books in the humanities.
Statistics of connectivity and Internet usage at US libraries, as well as information concerning Internet filtering issues. ALA Techsource
Issues of Library Technology Reports (LTR):
A guide to best practice for managing a library web site: skills needed, requirements for usability and accessibility, technical aspects of running a server, managing content, maintaining the site, and markup standards.
Guide for selection and purchasing library systems for small libraries.
Updates traditional RFPs, adding new ingredients respecting recent copyright law, newly available linking products, e-book utilities, and enhanced catalogue content. Adresses issues of multivendor purchases, implementation and consolidation.
Overview of RFID technologies, applications, products available, implementation procedures.
Results of a survey about laptop services in ARL libraries, from laptop lending and wireless services to use of personal laptops in libraries. Includes documentation from respondents on their laptop and wireless services descriptions, frequently asked questions, policies and procedures, etc. Table of contents and Executive Summary available at: http://www.arl.org/spec/SPEC275WebBook.pdf
Explores the current activity of data mining and data warehousing in ARL libraries, and its future possibilities. Includes documentation from respondents on their data mining and data warehousing policies, descriptions, and activities. Table of contents and Executive Summary available at: http://www.arl.org/spec/SPEC274WebBook.pdf
This paper addresses the topic of persistent identifiers like PURL (http://purl.org/), Handles (http://www.handle.net/) and proposes a new scheme named Archival Resource Keys (ARK). The ARK specification is an Internet Draft.
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report addresses the digital preservation of e-gov publications in the US.
It provides a review of the domain and a survey of existing initiatives
followed by recommendations for a layered service model.
This report explains what spyware programs are, how they operate, provides examples of different types of spyware as applications, commercial applications using spyware to track user behaviour, and user-tracking coockies. Motivation for this report is awareness of privacy questions, and it also includes information about US laws relevant to these issues.
Overview of major national and multinational initiatives in digital preservation, in four countries: Australia, France, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. The author provides key observations about trends and recommendations on several aspects, aimed at the LC or the NDIIPP
Result of a survey carried out in 2002 aiming to enhance strategies to sustain and strengthen digital cultural heritage initiatives and their by-products.
This report "summarizes and analyses more than 200 research publications that focus on the use of electronic library resources and were published between 1995 and 2003"(p.iv).
This guide provides information about stability conditions of CD and DVD and recommendations about how to maximize the lifetime and usefulness of such media.
CNRI produced three documents that were posted as RFC in 2003 regarding the Handle System:
Also available as IETF -RFC 3650, http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3650.txt
Also available as IETF-RFC 3651, http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3650.txt
Also available as IETF-RFC 3652, http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3652.txt
CO-EAST aims " to put in place ICT solutions to enable members of the public to easily obtain resources from libraries across the region". This report focus on issues of e-book services implementation.
This publication introduces the concept of learning objects and strategies for heritage institutions to engage in providing their products and services in ways that meet the requirements and expectations of e-learning communities. It includes a position paper by Bruce Royan, several interwiews with different experts and other articles about standards and internationally agreed specifications.
This is an introduction to the Semantic Web and its meanings and implications for cultural institutions. It includes a position paper by Seamus Ross, interviews with Janneke van Kersen and Nicola Guarino, and an example case / primer based on the "Finish Museum on the Semantic Web" project, by Guntram Geser.
This is the first in a series of Technology Watch Reports to be provided under the DigiCULT initiative. The Report identifies and provides accessible descriptions of technologies of interest for the heritage sector but not commonly used yet, namely: Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Digital Asset Management Systems (DAMS), Smart Labels and Smart Tags, Virtual Reality and Display Technologies, Human Interfaces and Games Technologies.
This document provides recommendations for electronic publishing concerning different standard and management aspects involved: adoption of OAI, metadata, document formats, use of XML, representation formats, retrieval, authenticity and integrity, archiving and long-term availability.
These recommendations establish the textual and formal specifications for the creation of German OAI archives in order to maximize interoperation among them.
Reports issued in 2003 by the following EU-NSF Working Groups:
An analysis of information technology security issues in higher
education, encompassing questions like costs, tensions between preserving
confidentiality, ensuring data integrity, and maintaining an academic
environment in which information is easily accessible.
Study about evolving student and instructor support requirements for online distance-learning courses, hybrid courses, and traditional courses that leverage technology. More info at: http://www.educause.edu/asp/doclib/abstract.asp?ID=ERS0303 Key findings publicly available at: http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ecar_so/ers/ERS0303/ekf0303.pdf
Study about how faculty members use course management systems for teaching. The study synthesizes information collected from quantitative surveys, personal interviews, and student and faculty usage logs. More info at: http://www.educause.edu/asp/doclib/abstract.asp?ID=ERS0302. Key findings publicly available at: http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ecar_so/ers/ERS0302/ekf0302.pdf.
An assessment of the PKI market, its challenges, and its future. More info at: http://www.educause.edu/asp/doclib/abstract.asp?ID=ERS0301. Key findings publicly available at: http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ecar_so/ers/ERS0301/ekf0301.pdf
Report of a survey of the recipients of the e-Rate programme support (US). E-Rate is a funding programme established by the Telecommunications Act of 1996 to provide support to schools and libraries around the US.
These guidelines introduce and explain the concepts behind RSS, recommendations for good practice, case studies on RSS production, tools and specifications. Primarily intended for a non-technical audience, it is aimed at publishers and content providers.
An overview of the JISC's Focus on Access to Institutional Resources (FAIR) Programme, of UK repositories and the impact of ePrints UK.
2003 resources available from the service ERPAePRINTS http://daedalus.lib.gla.ac.uk/
The report of this Seminar provides an accessible introduction to the OAIS model, its features, potential, interpretation and orientations on application. The following are reports of case studies investigating the awareness, risk, activities and future requirements concerning digital preservation in different organizations/sectors:
Findings of a survey on the practices and understandings of assessing end-user needs in digitisation projects.
"This report reviews syntaxes for RDF as defined in RDF Model and Syntax W3C Recommendation including RDF/XML as updated by the RDF/XML Syntax Specification (Revised) and describes the problems that remain after the revising". (Abst.).
This short paper characterizes annotation in the context of Web-based resources and provides a "review of some significant annotation systems both personal (providing local annotation tools) and Web-based , i.e. that allow and support Web-based storage of annotations and/or collaborative annotation" (Abst.).
Review of available personal bibliographic systems (20). Analyses functionality and issues in personal bibliographic data management. Produced as part of background research for the SWAD-E Semantic Blogging Demonstrator Research.
Review of bibliographic standards within the context of libraries; it covers major issues in the management of bibliographic data in library systems and the various standards that are required to make such system operate and interoperate effectively . Produced as part of background research for the SWAD-E Semantic Blogging Demonstrator Research. (Abst.).
A beginners guide to the 'grid' concept in computing and in distributed information and knowledge networks.
This is an outcome of the IST (Information Society Technologies) Advisory Group, established in January 2003 in order to reflect and provide recommendations on the exploitation and impact of ICT research in Europe.
This report forms part of ITU's upcoming 2003 edition of the World Telecommunication Development Report (WTDR). Published to coincide with the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), it ranks countries into one of four digital access categories: high, upper, medium and low, by measuring the overall ability of individuals in a country to access and use ICT. The measurement is based on of eight variables organized into five categories: Infrastructure, affordability, knowledge, quality and usage.
An introduction to MODS, how it works, its elements and advantages as a metadata description standard for digital libraries.
Overview of Web Services technologies, providing a general description, main standards and types products available, assessment of likely benefits, costs, risks involved and timelines for implementation in the higher education sector.
This report provides a description of speech recognition technology, its applications and potentials in education.
The report provides an introduction to XML and its common applications and examines real world experiences of XML for educational interoperability.
This report describes digital paper technologies, its potentials, risks and benefits to higher and further education.
LITA guides
This is a very accessible introduction to XML, related technologies and tools, written specifically for librarians.
This book summarizes recent research and thinking about e-book functionalities, and reviews surveys and studies about user preferences. Practical advice for libraries is provided on e-book RFPs, license agreements, and purchases.
This report addresses one of the recommendations included in the Action Plan (http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/bibcontrol/actionplan.html) that resulted from the Library of Congress Conference on Bibliographic Control for the New Millennium, (http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bibcontrol/) namely the charge to "explore ways to enrich metadata records by focusing on providing additional subject and other access mechanisms...and increasing granularity of access and display".
LCPAIG is the Library of Congress Portals Applications Issues Group, established in 2002 to search for portal products that would best meet the reference and research needs of Library of Congress and also follow the objectives established at the Bicentennial Conference.
This is an update to the study of the same title prepared by Tom Delsey for the LoC in 2001 (http://www.loc.gov/marc/marc-functional-analysis/original_frbr.html), in which MARC 21 was examined from several perspectives notably the AACR and FRBR models. This version is due to MARC21 updates occurred since the first version of the study.
Statement of 3 major principles that should guide the information industry in the use of linking technology in electronic bibliographic and full-text databases.
This is the first of a new series of 'best practice' guidelines announced by NISO in June. It provides 5 points to be followed when using link checkers (programs that check URLs validity).
This report is the outcome of a workshop organised by the NSF and the Library of Congress in 2002 to identify the research agenda research for long-term preservation of digital content.
The report synthesises trends in information formats for the next 5 years covering traditional materials (audiovisual media, books, electronic books, journals and newspapers, and print-on-demand works), scholarly materials (articles, books, electronic course management materials, e-print archives, journals, and theses and dissertations), digitization projects (commercial, national, and state and local projects), and Web resources.
An analysis of the economics of digital preservation stressing the need for alignment of preservation objectives with incentives relevant for decision-makers. Lavoie elaborates on cost analysis and business models, scenarios and corrective measures that can enhance motivation for digital preservation undertakings.
This white paper is the outcome of a task force established in Spring 2003 to reflect on e-learning issues, its implications for libraries and to provide recommendation to OCLC on the subject.
This guide analyses systems features and functionalities for CDSware, Dspace, Eprints, I-Tor and MyCore.
This is a major study about the role of Australian libraries as providers of public information in the online environment, and developed upon invited submissions from libraries and other organisations.
This PLA TechNote identifies and explains briefly the major topics in selecting and negotiating with database vendors.
Several deliverables are available from this project, namely:
Report of an extensive consultation at UK institutions on portal requirements that included an online survey, focus groups and in-depth interviews.
A literature review aimed at providing "readers new to institutional portals with an introduction to the topic and an overview of outputs from a number of portal activities."(p.4).
This report builds on the previous one and "outlines the views of both potential portal users and content providers on the inclusion of external resources in institutional portals." (p.5).
"Review of metadata standards and specifications for describing people and their interests, covering overview of selected products, both general and environment specific (e-commerce, governmental and educational)" (p.4).
This briefing paper outlines the principles and good practices for library services in institutions providing eLearning.
This report provides an overview of practices regarding legal deposit of digital publications and is based on surveys conducted with CENL libraries and major publishers.
This is the formal version of TEL report concerning metadata and provides review of the state of the art and survey of current practices among TEL partners (European National Libraries).
This study attempts to estimate how much information is created each year, and continues the study with the same title published in 2000. This edition analyses the year 2002 and provides comparison with findings of the previous study as well as trends in the growth rate of information.
This study analyses the urgent need for, and benefits of Web archiving undertakings. It provides an introduction and evaluation of existing initiatives and presents implementation issues.
Aimed primarily to archivists and Web publishers, this study provides "guidance on how to address the legal issues that will arise when creating a web archive from non-proprietary sources". (p.vi) home | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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