Digital Libraries

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Thirteen Ways of Looking at Libraries, Discovery, and the Catalog: Scale, Workflow, Attention

December 10, 2012

Preamble The Catalog as an Identifiable Service There is a renaissance of interest in the catalog and catalog data. Yet it comes at a time when the catalog itself is being reconfigured in w…

Five New Paradigms for Science and an Introduction to DataONE

March 21, 2012

William Michener ( wmichene@unm.edu ) is Professor and Director of e-Science Initiatives for University Libraries at the University of New Mexico. He is Project Director for Data Obser…

The Need to Formalize Trust Relationships in Digital Repositories

May 7, 2008

© 2008 Fran Berman, Ardys Kozbial, Robert H. McDonald, and Brian E. C. Schottlaender. The text of this article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike …

The Academic Archives of the Future

March 14, 2008

© 2008 Richard J. Cox. The text of this article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License ( http://creativecommons.org/lice…

Changing a Cultural Icon: The Academic Library as a Virtual Destination

January 1, 2006

© 2006 Jerry D. Campbell EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 41, no. 1 (January/February 2006): 16–31. Changing a Cultural Icon: The Academic Library as a Virtual Destination Jerry D. Campbell…

What Is a Data System, Anyway?

January 1, 2005

© 2005 Peter Cornillon EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 40, no. 2 (March/April 2005): 10–11. What Is a Data System, Anyway? Peter Cornillon Peter Cornillon is Professor of Oceanog…

Archiving in the Digital Age: There's a Will, But Is There a Way?

January 1, 2001

If the academic community's commitment to archiving is to make the transition to the digital age, it needs not only a system for storing and preserving electronic information but also the reso…