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Digital Library Design for Usability
White Papers Less attention has been given to usability in digital library (DL) design. During the last decade, software designers have made progress in developing usable systems for products such as word processors.
[August 14, 2003, 0:00]
HP, MIT delve deep with digital library
News Potentially, DSpace will lead to the creation of a virtual library that meshes the collections of several research universities. MIT itself produces an estimated 10,000 pieces of digital content a year, a figure that includes conference papers and...
[November 5, 2002, 8:28]
Libronix Digital Library System
Downloads The Libronix Digital Library System is a technology used to deliver digital libraries of books and interactive study tools. Books from multiple publishers are automatically integrated into a single digital library on your system.
[June 16, 2008, 8:00]
UK urged to help Europe's digital library
News The UK is being urged to step up its efforts to contribute to a Europe-wide free digital library. Google has also firmed up its plans for a digital library of its own. The European Commission is asking all member states to boost efforts towards...
[August 31, 2006, 10:10]
EC to rival Google with massive digital library
News It also acknowledged that several initiatives are already under way within Europe such as the Collect Britain project in the UK which is backed by the British Library and part-funded by the National Lottery.
[October 3, 2005, 12:35]
British Library calls for digital copyright action
News The British Library has called for a "serious updating" of current copyright law to "unambiguously" include digital content, and take technological advances into account. In a manifesto launched on Monday at the Labour Party Conference in...
[September 25, 2006, 13:50]
EC to rival Google with massive digital library
Talkback I'm sure France had something to do with this decision. Coinsodetally enough I just got an email back today from the Tate art gallery when I uploaded an example of one their pictures which I then filled full of meta-data like the artist, the story...
[October 3, 2005, 21:34]
British Library calls for digital copyright action
Talkback DRM? Domestic Rights Manipulation. When will politicians learn that if commercially sponsored lobbiests can't have it one way then they'll try it another way? Their goal is quite simple. Controlling the access to your own data.
[September 27, 2006, 23:52]
British Library calls for digital copyright action
Talkback This said at the same time the BL is looking to get locked into MOOX? DRM and non-free formats share some of the same threats. Few applications expected to support MOOX in the near future, actually just one.
[September 25, 2006, 16:38]
Towards Next Generation CiteSeer: A Flexible Architecture for Digital Library Deployment
White Papers CiteSeer began as the first search engine for scientific literature to incorporate Autonomous Citation Indexing, and has since grown to be a well-used, open archive for computer and information science publications, currently indexing over 730,000...
[March 15, 2007, 0:00]
Online library offers 1.5m books for free
News The Universal Digital Library, a book-scanning project backed by several major libraries across the globe, has completed the digitisation of 1.5 million books and on Tuesday made them free and publically available.
[November 28, 2007, 11:13]
Best Practices for Designing Web Services in the Library Context
White Papers In order to create an interoperable "Ecology" for digital library systems, some standard practices need to be adopted, and some standards and standard technologies need to be provided in order to best support these practices.
[November 25, 2008, 23:00]
Generation tech
News The future can be found in the virtual stacks of the International Children's Digital Library. Honestly, the only reason any one of my college friends use the library is for group meetings. The library offers an important view into the minds of...
[November 18, 2005, 16:20]
Delicious Library
Downloads Get your Mac, a webcam, and Delicious Library and rediscover your home library. Delicious Library does the rest. Once your whole library is cataloged, you can find and use your items like never before.
[October 22, 2009, 3:34]
Microsoft partners with British Library
News The British Library confirmed its love of all things digital earlier this year, when it said it would make it a priority to update its infrastructure for the coming wave of digital content. Google's digital library efforts have been dogged with...
[November 4, 2005, 15:25]
JFK archives to be put online
News The 10-year project to build a new digital library is a joint collaboration between IT vendor EMC, the Kennedy Presidential Library and the US National Archives and Records Administration. The archives of the Kennedy Presidential Library's research...
[June 13, 2006, 11:00]
EC seeks more cash for online cultural library
News Europe's online cultural library — a digital repository of countries' books, music, paintings, photographs and films, accessed through a single digital archive — is set to go live this autumn, according to the Commission.
[August 12, 2008, 13:11]
Create a dynamic photo gallery with PHP and your digital camera's metadata
White Papers By taking advantage of you camera's built-in metadata and PHP's Exchangeable Image File (EXIF) functions you can set up a process that will automatically organize your digital photographic library. The solution comes complete with the necessary PHP...
[May 16, 2006, 5:28]
The British Library needs you
Blog From Monday to Wednesday this week, the British Library in St Pancras is host to a conference on the Digital Lives Research Project. The project was relatively small but still raised issues for the British Library, not the least of those issues is...
[February 10, 2009, 20:02]
Google to digitise books from University of California
News Jennifer Colvin, strategic communications manager at the California Digital Library, which works on digitisation projects for the UC school system, said she saw no conflict or problems with the school system working with two seemingly competing...
[August 9, 2006, 10:05]
