Shared Collection Development, Digitization, and Owned Digital Collections

Developing a Collection Registry for IMLS NLG Digital Collections

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has been funded to create a collection registry and item-level metadata repository for digital collections and content created under the auspices of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) National Leadership Grant (NLG) program. The first stages of developing the collection registry are described: defining a collection; surveying curre...

A plea for digital reference collections and other sciencebased digitization initiatives in taxonomy: Sepsidnet as exemplar

1Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 2Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Oxford, England, 3Natural History Museum, London, England, 4Department of Zoology and Fisheries, Faculty of Agrobiology, Food and Natural Resources, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Prague, Czech Republic, 5Institute of Evolutionary Biology ...

Digital Collections, the Next Generation: Transitioning to METS for Science Fiction Digitization Project

Collection Definition in Federated Digital Resource Development

As part of a federation project providing integrated access to over 170 digital collections, we are studying how collections can best be represented to meet the needs of service providers and diverse user communities. This paper reports on recent results from that project on how digital resource developers conceive of and define their collections. Based on content analysis of collection registr...

Bridget Robinson Collection Description Focus Collections and Collection Description

The managers of the valuable resources held by museums, archives and libraries compile descriptions of their holdings both so that they can administer and control those resources more effectively and in order to enhance access to those resources by disclosing information about their existence and availability to potential users. The channels through which resource managers provide that informat...