The Educopia Institute, with the San Diego Supercomputer Center and the libraries of University of North Texas, Penn State, Virginia Tech, University of Utah, Georgia Tec[...]

This paper discusses the importance of a particular approach to building and sustaining digital content preservation infrastructures for cultural memory organizations (CM[...]

With the advent in recent years of widespread digital collections, web services (including "Web 2.0"), and metadata harvesting (most notably with OAI-PMH), a challenge ha[...]

The University of North Texas together with the Council on Library and Information Resources, have received $226,786 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services for[...]

In January 2005, the Digital Library Federation (DLF) renewed its commitment to developing a distributed open digital library by assigning a full time project director to[...]

Outlines the themes and contributions of the Free Culture and the Digital Library Symposium.The article provides a summary of the conflict of interests between those who [...]

Dr. Martin Halbert of the University of North Texas documents the spectrum of ETD program implementation and offers guidance for academic decision-makers who are either c[...]

In 1989 on the shores of Montana's beautiful Flathead Lake, the owners of the weekly newspaper the Bigfork Eagle started TownNews.com to help community newspapers with de[...]

The iCAMP (Information: Curate, Archive, Manage, and Preserve) project is developing a curriculum in digital curation and data management. The project will design and imp[...]

Information Commons have successfully served as platforms for innovations in facilities and service programs within libraries over the past 2 decades. In this article, th[...]

Research Libraries now face a challenging set of integration tasks when establishing institutional repository system architectures which provide for the range of contempo[...]

The spontaneous appearance of facilities and services termed "Information Commons" in many major academic libraries across North America represents a significant new tren[...]

The MetaScholar Initiative is a collaborative endeavor to explore the feasibility and utility of scholarly portal services developed in conjunction with Open Archives Ini[...]

A Guide to Distributed Digital Preservation is intentionally structured such that every chaptercan stand on its own or be paired with other segments of the book at will, [...]

This paper describes findings and projections from a project that has examined emerging policies and practices in the United States regarding the long-term institutional [...]

The challenge of ensuring long-term preservation of and access to the outputs of scientificresearch, especially data sets produced by publicly funded research projects, h[...]

In this paper, we report findings of the DataRes Project, a two-year project funded by theInstitute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS). We examine the perceptions of [...]

It has long been recognized that there is safety in numbers and that redundancy enhancessurvivability. This principle has been applied in many spheres of human activity, [...]

This collection of essays is a report of early findings from pioneers who have worked to establishdigital libraries, not merely as experimental projects, but as ongoing s[...]

This is a time of transitions for the extended system of scholarly communication. Efforts are underway to create, disseminate, and sustain unprecedented new forms of scho[...]

It is with great pleasure that I preface these proceedings for the Workshop on Applicationsof Metadata Harvesting in Scholarly Portals: Findings from the MetaScholar Proj[...]