DECOMATE - II LIB - 5672 / B Developing the European Digital Library for Economics

EDEL / a European Digital Library for Economics

With mounting pressures on libraries caused by the ever-expanding range and number of information sources in print and electronic format, the attractions of library co-operation are clear. Areas for co-operation may be in sharing resources or technical expertise or in working together to obtain favourable licensing or purchasing conditions. Many library consortia are based at national or region...

Decomate: Unified Access to Globally Distributed Libraries

The Decomate project enables mutual access to heterogeneous, distributed, and pooled digital resources of consortium members. Using a mediator architecture with a Broker and several back-end servers, a scalable and flexible system has been developed that is going in production in major European universities. Ongoing work focuses on access improvements using graphical browsing and thesaurus inte...

Educational Inquiry and Creativity: Developing Digital Resources in Ireland's Information Age Town

Despite cultural and social barriers to technology adoption, the teachers and administrators of schools in the Irish town of Ennis, with help from the Clare County Education Centre, integrated computers, networking, software, Internet, and digital imagery into the schools’ curriculum. Success in technology integration has been achieved in primary education due to persistent and innovative effor...

LIS Education in the Digital Age for an African Agenda

NDIIPP Partner Perspectives on Economic Sustainability

This article presents results from the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) Digital Preservation Sustainability Working Group survey, conducted in 2007. The Library of Congress initiated the working group to gather information about significant issues relating to the economic sustainability of activities that support digital stewardship. The group decide...