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Resources, Standards, and Background Information for Digital Collections
This page serves as a resource for members of the Metadata Implementation Group and the Digital Content Coordinators.
Standards or Recommended Practice
Digital Preservation
- Automatic Exposure : Capturing Technical Metadata for Digital Still Images / an RLG Initiative (2004)
- Care and Handling of CDs and DVDs: A Guide for Librarians and Archivists / by Fred R. Byers (October 2003)
- CEDARS: CURL Exemplars in Digital Archives
- Copyright and Licensing for Digital Preservation (2003-2004)
- Digital Preservation / Digital Library Federation (2002)
- Digital Preservation and Copyright (2003) / Peter B. Hirtle
- Digital Preservation Coalition Home
- DPC/PADI What's New in Digital Preservation / comp. by Gerard Clifton (National Library of Australia) and Michael Day (UKOLN) (updated several times a year: select desired issue)
- DPC/OCLC Technology Watch Report: The Open Archival Information System Reference Model / Brian F. Lavoie, OCLC Office of Research (January 2004)
- Handbook
- Digital Preservation Management : Implementing Short-Term Strategies for Long-Term Problems / Cornell University Online Tutorial (2003)
- It's About Time: Research Challenges in Digital Archiving and Long-Term Preservation (August 2003) / NSF, Digital Government Program and Digital Libraries Program and Library of Congress, National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program
- National Archives and Records Administration Preservation Page (jncludes information on digital preservation)
- National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) / a collaborative initiative of the Library of Congress
- National Library of New Zealand Metadata Standards Framework – Preservation Metadata (November 2002)
- NEDLIB (2000) "Metadata for Long Term Preservation"
- NISO Metadata for Images in XML Schema (MIX)
- NISO Z39.87: Technical Metadata for Digital Still Images
- OCLC Digital Archive
- OCLC Digital Archive Metadata Elements (April 18, 2003)
- PDF-Archive
- PREMIS (PREservation Metadata : Implementation Strategies) : OCLC RLG Preservation Metadata Working Group
- Preservation in the Digital World / Paul Conway, Head, Preservation Department, Yale University Library (March 1996)
- Preservation Metadata for Digital Collections / National Library of Australia (1999)
- Preservation Metadata for Digital Objects: A Review of the State of the Art: a White Paper by the OCLC/RLG Working Group on Preservation Metadata (January. 2001)
- Reference Model for an Open Archival Information System (OAIS) / Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems, NASA (January 2002)
- Trusted Digital Repositories : Attributes and Responsibilities : An OCLC-RLG Report (May 2002)
Dublin Core
- ANSI/NISO Z39.85-2001 Dublin Core Metadata Element Set
- Dublin Core Usage Guide
- Dublin Core Metadata Element Set
- Dublin Core DCMI Administrative Metadata / Creators: Jytte Hansen and Leif Andresen
- Guidelines for Implementing Dublin Core in XML / Andy Powell, Pete Jonhston (Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, 2003)
- Western States Dublin Core Best Practices / Western States Digital Standards Group (version 2.1 September 2005)
Image Collections : Standards and Practices
- Administrative Metadata for Digital Still Images. (Boston: Harvard University, Library Digital Initiative, 2000)
- "Analyzing the Subject of a Picture: A Theoretical Approach, " by Sara Shatford, Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, v. 6(3), Spring 1986
- Guides to quality in visual resource imaging. (Washington. D.C.: Council on Library and Information Resources, 2000)
- JPEG2000 in Archives and Libraries
- SEPIADES Advisory Report on Cataloguing Photographic Collections
- "Subject Access to Art Images," by Sara Shatford Layne, in Introduction to Art Image Access : Issues, Tools, Standards, Strategies, Getty Research Institute, 2002
- TASI (Technical Advisory Service for Images)
- TIFF 6.0 Specifications. (Geneva: International Telecommunication Union, 2002)
Data Sets
Accessibility Issues, Site Design, and Evaluation of Digital Collections
- Daisy Consortium (Digital Talking Books)
- DELOS Workshop on the Evaluation of Digital Libraries (Oct. 2004)
- Interaction Modeling for the Design of Digital Libraries / UCLIC
Miscellaneous
- Application profiles: mixing and matching metadata schemas / Rachel Heery and Manjula Patel. (Ariadne. 25. September 2000)
- Archival Digital Image Creation (Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia)
- Cataloguing Cultural Objects: A Guide to Describing Cultural Works and Their Images / Visual Resources Association
- CONTENTdm Online Help Site Map
- Digital Library Federation Standards and Practices
- Draft Benchmark for Digital Reproductions of Printed Books and Serial Publications
- A Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections / Institute of Museum and Library Services NINCH Guide to Good Practice in the Digital Representation and Management of Cultural Heritage Materials
- Handbook for Digital Projects (NEDCC)
- ISO 11179 : Specification and Standardization of Data Elements
- Knowledge Lost in Information : Report of the NSF Workshop on Research Directions for Digital Libraries (June 2003)
- Library of Congress Portals Applications Issues Group
- National Library of New Zealand : Digital Library Development Review (July 2003) / Dr. Seamus Ross (PDF 88 p.)
- The Next Stage: Moving from Isolated Digital Collections to Interoperable Digital Libraries / by Howard Besser
- Open Archives Initiative
- OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting)
- Thesaurus principles and practice / Leonard Will (Willpower Information, 1998)
Thesauri or Sources of Vocabulary
- AAT (Getty Art & Architecture Thesaurus)
- Columbia Gazetteer of the World Online
- Controlled Vocabularies... by Traugott Koch
- Controlling Your Language: Links to Metadata Vocabularies (TASI)
- FAST (Faceted Application of Subject Terminology - LCSH)
- GNIS (Geographic Names Information System)
- TGMI (Thesaurus for Graphic Materials I: Subject Terms)
- TGMII (Thesaurus for Graphic Materials II: Genre & Physical Characteristic Terms)
- ULAN (Getty Union List of Artist Names)
Non-UO Digital Collections and Policies
Manuscripts
- Berkeley's Digital Scriptorium
- Bodleian Library's Towards an Image Catalogue
- The British Library's Turning the Pages Site
- Their Own Words : A collection of books, letters, and personal accounts
Images
- Alaska Virtual Library and Digital Archive (VILDA)
- Cushman Photograph Collection (Indiana University)
- Early Las Vegas : A Digital Collection (Using CONTENTdm) / UNLV Libraries
- Edward S. Curtis's The North American Indian (American Memory)
- TASI Image Sites
Mixed
- American Memory (Library of Congress)
- Cambridge University Library Digital Library
- Mountain West Digital Collection
- Oregon State University Libraries Digital Collections
- University of Utah Digitized Collections
- University of Washington Digital Collections
- CONTENTdm Customer Collections
Background Information
Copyright and Digital Rights Management
- Copyright and Art Issues by Christine Sundt
- Copyright and Fair Use / ALA
- Digital Rights Management Conference (Nov. 2002)
- U.S. Copyright Search (Books, Music, etc.)
- UT System Crash Course in Copyright
- When U.S. Works Pass into the Public Domain
Journals
- Ariadne Magazine (published every 3 months by UKOLN)
- DigiCULT (Publications Supporting Digital Culture)
- Digital Library Technology Trends / Sun Microsystems
- D-Lib Magazine
- ERPANet Newsletter
- IEEE Technical Committee on Digital Libraries Bulletin
- Journal of Digital Information
- NISO Website
- Resources for Electronic Resource Management / ERIL
- RLG DigiNews
Metadata
- DCMI Bibliography / creator: Corey Harper
- Introduction to Metadata: Pathways to Digital Information. / by Murtha Baca. (Los Angeles: Getty Information Institute)
- Metadata Resources / by Corey Harper
- Metadata for Beginners : Quick Links to Various Metadata Schemas
- NSDL (National Science Digital Library) Metadata Resources Page
Digital Repositories
Digital Book Repositories (Open Access)
- DSpace
- Fedora Project : An Open-Source Digital Repository Management System
- Shibboleth Project
- University of Oregon's Scholars' Bank Implementation
Maintained by: MSDP, msdpweb@uoregon.edu
Last Modified: 04/05/2007