Annotating Digital Collections (invited respondent)

Library Collections, Acquisitions, and Technical Services, 2002

In April 2000, the Digital Library Federation commissioned three reports to address broader concerns about digital collections in research libraries. This report synthesizes the nearly 10 years' experience that libraries have had digitizing items from their rare, special, and general collections, and making them available online. The report demonstrates that digitization programs work best where their role within a library's collection development strategy is clearly understood, and identifies several roles that such programs can play. The author muses about the extent to which digitally reformatted special and rare collections can actually support scholarly research, and looks at whether leading research libraries in particular might more usefully focus on digitizing general as opposed to special and rare collections. The report opens with points to consider in developing a sustainable strategy. The second section addresses identification, evaluation and selection, discussing polices, guidelines and best practices, and rationales for digitization. The third section focuses on institutional impacts and discusses treatment and disposition of source materials, scalability, intellectual control and data management, coordinated collection development, funding, preservation, and support of users. A final section addresses challenges in evaluating costs and benefits, and offers recommendations. (Contains 47 references.) (AEF)

2004

We motivate, describe and demonstrate a generic repository for visual material related to cultural disciplines such as architecture, art and heritage. The repository design abstracts from the requirements of particular tasks to implement a set of common features based on the metaphor of a gallery. In functional terms, galleries are spaces in which several roles play together to create the larger social entity we call a gallery.

2005

In the IMLS Digital Collections and Content (DCC) project we have created a registry of digital collections produced by IMLS NLG initiative grantees, while development of an item level repository is ongoing. That work included development of a collection description schema. 1 Concurrently, the DCC research team has been examining metadata practices of the NLG projects and their implications for collection federation.

2014

The last decade a great number of digital library and digital repository systems have been developed and published as open-source software. The variety of available software systems is a factor of confusion when an organization is planning to build a repository infrastructure to host its collections. To simplify the decision process five widely used open-source repository software systems are compared, namely DSpace, Fedora, Greenstone, EPrints and Invenio. In addition to the comparison of these software systems and their characteristics' description, we propose the most suitable systems for different cases of digital collections. Using five collection paradigms that represent case studies of different content and functionality, an organization can be directed to select a repository software matching its criteria.

A Handbook of Digital Library Economics, 2013

SRELS Journal of Information Management, 2007

Describes various trends in collection development in digital environment. The changes that have occurred in acquisition, retrieval and storage of information due to technological developments have been discussed. Limitations, restrictions and problems being faced by librarians and readers due to the same have also been discussed. The way these developments have affected the academic environment and changed the role of librarian has also been portrayed.

International Journal of Digital Library Systems, 2014

The last decade a great number of digital library and digital repository systems have been developed and published as open-source software. The variety of available software systems is a factor of confusion when an organization is planning to build a repository infrastructure to host its collections. To simplify the decision process five widely used open-source repository software systems are compared, namely DSpace, Fedora, Greenstone, EPrints and Invenio. In addition to the comparison of these software systems and their characteristics' description, we propose the most suitable systems for different cases of digital collections. Using five collection paradigms that represent case studies of different content and functionality, an organization can be directed to select a repository software matching its criteria.

2006

Abstract: This white paper details our findings to date relevant to the Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections. We provide sixteen recommendations to NISO suggesting potential ways to improve the impact and/or utility of the Framework itself. For selected recommendations, we identify complementary research opportunities for IMLS; these appear as boxed text alongside each relevant recommendation.

Critical Care Clinics, 2005

The need for a safety culture often is most apparent after a disaster. Investigators of the Challenger and the Columbia space shuttle accidents argued that managers did not help employees to balance production goals, resources constraints, and speed with the requirements for safety. The managers also did not value employees' expressed concerns about safety. In high-risk settings, such as a nuclear power plant, an aircraft carrier, or an intensive care unit (ICU), the organization's strength becomes its weakness. As work becomes routine and staff skilled, people often lose sight of the hazardous nature of the work [1]. A safety culture ensures that people never forget about the hazards. It becomes particularly important when staff members in an ICU, for example, are exposed constantly to changing technology, changes in personnel, and new methods of treatment. They can be distracted by the never-ending work of learning and adapting . A safety culture grows out of several commitments; leaders are committed to safety, staff members recognize the error is inevitable, errors are reported, people dedicate time to learning about new risks and hazards, and staff upgrade procedures and implement new safeguards on a continuing basis .