Week 11 Post

Dewey Meets Turing

-Librarians, computer scientists and publishers are interested in beginning the Digital Libraries Initiative in 1994, funded by the National Science Foundation.
-Computer scientist say DLI as a chance to impact society.
-Librarians say DLI as a means to get funding and to insure the libraries continued impact on scholarly work.
-when the web came along, it changed DLIs plans but the need to have better and more complete holdings remains a focus.
-With the web, deals with publishers and copyright restrictions made computer scientists change how they publish their work.
-Now the library was forced to change ideas because many journal publisher's business decision to charge at a premium for digital content computer scientists have named information hubs.
-Opportunities now arise for direct connections between librarians and scholarly authors.

Digital Libraries

-The mantra has been: aggregate, virtually collocate and federate. The goal of seamless federation across distributed, heterogeneous resources remains the holy grail of digital library work.
-DLI-1 funded six university led projects to develop and implement computing and networking technologies that could make large scale electronic test collections accessible and interoperable.
School are: U of MI, Stanford, U of CA-Berkely, U of CA-Santa Barbara, Carnegie Mellon and U of IL-Champaign-Urbana.
-Probably the most significant contribution of the IL project was the transfer of technology to our publishing partners and other publishers.
-A large number of significant digital library standards and technologies have been developed by entities outside of the federally funded projects
publishers
publisher consortium
Bibliographic utilities
W3C
Academic consortium
NISO
LOC
Library integrated system vendors
web search engines
Computer companies
Open Source community

Institutional Repositories: Essential Infrastructure for Scholarship in the Digital Age

-The development of institutional repositories emerged as a new strategy that allows universities to apply serious, systematic leverage to accelerate changes taking place in scholarship.
-Online storage costs have dropped significantly; repositories are now affordable.
-Operational responsibility for these services may reasonably be situated in different organizational units at different universities promoting collaboration among librarians, IT people, archives and records managers, faculty and university administrators and policymakers.
-A mature and fully realized institutional repository will contain intellectual works of faculty and students.
-Cautions
administration might try to gain more control over faculty intellectual work
overloading the repository
creating repositories to rapidly
Repositories need to be sure to preserve formats, have identifiers, and documentation and management of rights.