This paper examines preservation planning as it is implemented within the National Library’s preservation repository (Rosetta) and compares it directly to the PLATO tool created as part of the PLANETS project. Preservation planning is both a business precondition and the systematic framework defining any preservation action. At the National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, ...

Semantic Browsing provides contextualized dynamically generated Web content customizing the knowledge to better meet user expectations. The real-world medical digital library, the National electronic Library of Infection (NeLI, www.neli.org.uk), enriched with an infection domain ontology enables new semantic services to be developed qualitatively. In this paper, we will address the use of group...

2. BACKGROUND A team comprised of the Center for Natural Language Processing (CNLP) at Syracuse University and the Digital Learning Sciences (DLS) at the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research recently completed a project that integrated many digital library tools into one, which is called Metadata Assignment and Search Tool (MAST). 1 This tool enables libraries and museums to efficien...

The NSDL Metadata Registry is designed to provide humans and machines with the means to discover, create, access and manage metadata schemes, schemas, application profiles, crosswalks and concept mappings. This paper describes the general goals and architecture of the NSDL Metadata Registry as well as issues encountered during the first year of the project's implementation.

The ACM SIGGRAPH Education Committee web site is being evolved into a Digital Library that will be a worldwide resource for Graphics and Visualization Education. We discuss the history of the website, including a long-standing partnership with the National Science Foundation, and the current work to evolve it into a Digital Library. Finally, we discuss a proposed vision of the future of the Dig...

The Library of Congress proposes extending the success of the NDIIPP (National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program) network by forming a national stewardship alliance of committed digital preservation partners.

The main objective of this article is to identify and evaluate the accelerating factor in the Iranian oil nationalization movement. The main question is: what was the accelerating factor that put the Iranian oil nationalization movement into practice? The article relies on the reform movement theory of Neil Smelser. For this purpose, fraud in the 16thnational election of the parliament, and est...

human advancements in science and technology have also developed to libraries leading to the emergence of the phenomenon of the digital libraries. therefore, authors decided to open the new view in the development of science and technology by examining both the copyright and digital library. it seems that in the digital library we must distinguish between two types of public and private librari...

Digital Libraries play an important role in education; they are beneficial to both instructors and students. Many Web file-based course material systems have been built, but most of them do not have effective management mechanisms. Instead, they often have broken links and do not support metadata. To transfer these course materials from a file repository to an integrated and searchable educatio...