References and URLs for Daniel Greenstein’s presentation to
the Stanford-California State Library Institute on 21st Century
Librarianship, “Digital Libraries and their Challenges”
D Greenstein
10 August 2000
1.
Developing sustainable, scaleable collections
1.1.
Collection policies and guidelines relevant to:
1.1.1.
Commercial electronic resources (see Anne Okerson,
Electronic Collections Development page at http://www.library.yale.edu/~okerson/ecd.html
)
1.1.2.
digitally reformatted collections (see Selecting Research
Collections for Digitization by Dan Hazen, Jeffrey Horrell, Jan Merrill-Oldham,
1998, available from CLIR at http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub74.html.
Also see another CLIR publication by Abby Smith, Why Digitize)
1.1.3.
pointers to third-party Internet resources (see links from
IMESH at http://www.desire.org/html/subjectgateways/community/imesh/
and the collection policies developed by the subject gateways of the UK’s
Resource Discovery Network at http://www.rdn.ac.uk/)
1.1.4.
For links to numerous electronic collection development
policies and strategy documents also see DLF’s Documenting the Digital Library.
A registry of policies, technical documents, and etc., at http://www.clir.org/diglib/pubs/techreps.htm
1.2.
Distinguishing characteristics of digitally reformatted
collections. The examples characteristics are taken from Ann Marie Parsons,
“Accessing the Invisible Digital Collection: A Library School Student's
Perspective”, DLF Newsletter, 1:1(2000) at http://www.clir.org/diglib/pubs/news01/features.htm
1.2.1.
rich yet bounded narrative (see the Blake Archive and other
collections from the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities. The
Blake Archive is at http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/blake/main.html)
1.2.2.
context (wee the New York Public Library’s, Maps, Atlases,
Charts, and Globes from the Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/epo/mapexhib/navigate.html)
1.2.3.
comprehensible front matter (see the exhibition hall at the
National Archives and Records Administration http://www.nara.gov/exhall/exhibits.html)
1.2.4.
integrating disparate collections (see The Tebtunis Papyri
Collection and the Advanced Papyrological Information System project at The
Bancroft Library at http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/APIS/index.html)
1.2.5.
quality resolution (The David Rumsey Collection at http://www.davidrumsey.com/)
1.3.
Integrating access to distributed information resources via:
1.3.1.
union catalogues (see the the OPAC of the Consortium of
University Research Libraries – COPAC – at http://www.copac.ac.uk/ )
1.3.2.
distributed search services (e.g. of the Arts and Humanities
Data Service at http://ahds.ac.uk:8080/ahds_live/)
1.3.3.
metadata indices (see the Searchlight service at California
Digital Library http://searchlight.cdlib.org/cgi-bin/searchlight)
1.4.
Keeping an eye on strategy and business models (see the
Academic Image Cooperative’s Collection Strategy and Development Framework at http://www.clir.org/diglib/collections/aic/aicrev.htm)
2.
Standards and practices
2.1.
Documenting practice
2.1.1.
by assembling information (see Documenting the Digital
Library, a registry of policies, technical documents, and etc., at http://www.clir.org/diglib/pubs/techreps.htm)
2.1.2.
through review (see Preserving Access to Digital Information
– PADI – at http://www.nla.gov.au/padi/)
2.2.
Evaluating practice and defining digital library preferences
2.2.1.
for data creation (see TEI Text Encoding in Libraries Draft
Guidelines for Best Encoding Practices, Version 1.0 at
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/tei/)
2.2.2.
for data production (see RLG/DLF Guides to Quality in Visual
Resource Imaging at http://www.rlg.org/visguides/)
2.2.3.
and with a view of fitness for purpose (see AHDS Guides to
Good Practice from http://ahds.ac.uk/public/guides.html)
3.
Digital preservation
3.1.
Raising awareness:
3.1.1.
About the problem (see Preserving Digital Information,
Report of the Task Force on Archiving of Digital Information by Donald Waters
and John Garrett, from http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub63.html)
3.1.2.
its dimensions see (eLib supporting studies on preservation
conducted by the British Library Research and Innovation Commission at
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/services/elib/papers/supporting/)
3.1.3.
and possible solutions (see work of the CEDARS program at http://www.leeds.ac.uk/cedars/ and
publications of CLIR and the DLF listed at http://www.clir.org/diglib/preserve.htm)
3.2.
Sharing information (see PADI, op cit)
3.3.
Developing preservation frameworks (see the Reference Model
for an Open Archival Information System at
http://ssdoo.gsfc.nasa.gov/nost/isoas/overview.html) and strategies (see A
Strategic Policy Framework for Creating and Preserving Digital Collections at http://ahds.ac.uk/manage/manintro.html
and decision tools See Preservation Management of Digital Materials Workbook,
by Maggie Jones and Neil Beagrie (forthcoming from http://www.ahds.ac.uk/)
3.4.
Gaining practice archiving
3.4.1.
the web (see the Internet Archive at
http://www.archive.org/)
3.4.2.
research data (e.g. at the AHDS – http://www.ahds.ac.uk/ or the Inter
University Consortium for Political and Social Research - http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/index.html
3.4.3.
and electronic records (e.g. at the National Archives and
Records Administration)
4.
Architecting the digital library
4.1.
see Kerry Blinco, “Modelling Hybrid Information
Environments: The Librarian and the Super Model”, from
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/dlis/models/models9/presentations/kb-m9.ppt