Expect Resistance & Library Autonomous Zone

Main Articles: ‘eBank UK: Building the links between research data, scholarly communication and learning’, Ariadne Issue 36

NSF Post Digital Library Futures Workshop - Papers / Enabling the Semantic Web for Scientific Research And Collaboration

NSF Post Digital Library Futures Workshop - Papers

These papers are from the NSF invitational workshop on Òpost digital library futures,Ó or Òubiquitous knowledge environments.Ó

XML FOR DIGITAL PRESERVATION I found this paper on erpanet’s eprints service. It’s a “virtual clearinghouse and knowledge-base on state-of-the-art developments in digital preservation and the transfer of that expertise among individuals and institutions.” In other words, a digital archive focusing on digital preservation. Take a look!

Ex Libris–an E-Zine for Librarians and Information Junkies has an interesting article by Blake Carver ( Ohio State University and LISNews.com blogger par excellence) entitled, “Creating an institutional repository: a role for libraries.” He writes, and I agree, that libraries are not becoming superfluous relics, but are perfectly situated to be key players in the creation of institutional repositories. “This new system allows different parts of the campus community to be tied together via the library. The library then takes on a new centralized role which extends our traditional skills of preservation, cataloging, and access control.”

–Kindly gleaned from Walt Crawford’s “Sites & Insights, August, 2003″

Specification: DigitalRepositories

IMS develops and promotes open specifications for
facilitating online distributed learning activities such as locating
and using educational content. The IMS Digital Repositories v1.0 Final specification, released January 30, 2003, purpose is to provide recommendations for the interoperation of the most common repository functions.

Interoperability between Information and Learning Environments
Ð Bridging the Gaps (pdf)
A Joint White Paper on behalf of the IMS Global Learning Consortium
and the Coalition for Networked Information
DRAFT Ð Version of June 28, 2003
by Neil McLean and Clifford Lynch.

The primary purpose of this paper is to explore potential interactions between information
environments and learning environments, with emphasis on work that needs to be done
involving standards, architectural modelling or interfaces in order to permit these two
worlds to co-exist and evolve more productively. The emphasis here is on mapping the
territory at a relatively superficial level, to identify questions and issues and to make
some suggestions about what groups might most usefully undertake work in the various
areas.

OCLC/RLG Preservation Metadata Working Group [OCLC Research]. The focus of the PREMIS group will be on the practical aspects of implementing preservation metadata in digital preservation systems.

Research Information. What are the challenges facing digital preservation? One is quantity:
Lynne Brindley, chief executive of the British Library notes, “the world produces 1-2 exabytes (i.e. 1-2 billion gigabytes) of unique information per year, of which only 0.003 per cent is in printed form. That’s equivalent to 250Mb for every person on the planet. Each day sees the production of 7.3 million new web pages alone.” This feature article from Research Information outlines the issues. Thanks to RLG ShelfLife.

News
To bee or not to bee
Search engines may be remarkable resources, but they’re not intelligent. Will a new ’semantic’ web be clever enough, asks Danny Bradbury, to tell a flying insect from a work of music?
18 June 2003