digital libraries
event: Setting the Roadmap for Research Advances in Large Digital Book Repositories
Submitted by Lydia Horstman on Tue, 22/07/2008 - 10:19.The BooksOnline'08 Workshop on "Setting the Roadmap for Research Advances in Large Digital Book Repositories" will take place in Napa Valley, CA, in conjunction with CIKM 2008 (http://www.cikm2008.org/).
The workshop is focused on opportunities for innovation and challenges that are presented by large online collections of books. [read more...]
job: Director, Digital Library Technology Services, New York University
Submitted by Torsten Reimer on Wed, 09/07/2008 - 10:47.Description: Leads the design, development and ongoing implementation of digital library operations that support teaching and research. Programs reporting to the DLTS Director include: digital library development, digital repository services, Digital Studio technology, digital reformatting, and tools/software that facilitate discovery and use of research resources. [read more...]
event: Upgrading the eLibrary: Enhanced Information Services Driven by Technology and Economics
Submitted by Lydia Horstman on Wed, 02/07/2008 - 10:45.9th International Bielefeld Conference 2009, Bielefeld, Germany.
Three decades of databases, two decades of electronic articles and one
decade of open access have resulted in an avalanche of digital scholarly
information services. At the moment we observe a metamorphosis from the
electronic library to an enhanced library meeting also the emerging demands [read more...]
biblio: The Perseus Project and Beyond: How Building a Digital Library Challenges the Humanities and Technology
Submitted by Ariel Elkin on Mon, 03/12/2007 - 16:13.| Publication Type | Web Article | |
| Year of Publication | 1998 | |
| Authors / Editors | Crane, Gregory | |
| URL | http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january98/01crane.html |
wikipage: Information Systems and Digital Libraries (Library and Information Studies)
Submitted by neil.grindley on Thu, 26/07/2007 - 15:14.As Howard Besser (Besser, H. (2004), ‘The Past, Present, and Future of Digital Libraries’, in Schreibman, S., Siemens, R., Unsworth, J., (eds), A Companion to Digital Humanities, (pp.557 - 575)) points out, if a large collection of books and associated material has all been assembled in one location, it doesn’t necessarily mean that it should be called a ‘library’. [read more...]
image: Fig. 2 Representation of the DelosDLMS
Submitted by neil.grindley on Thu, 26/07/2007 - 15:12.
wikipage: Data Capture (Electronic Texts)
Submitted by neil.grindley on Thu, 28/06/2007 - 17:39.As detailed in one of the other working papers in this series (Tools and Methods for Historical Research) digital methods for the bulk acquisition of data from printed material into digital formats have now been developed to the point where very large scale archives comprising of scores of millions of items are not only a possibilit [read more...]
event: EVA London 2007: Electronic Visualisation & the Arts
Submitted by Admin on Thu, 14/06/2007 - 15:26.Communicating the uses and implications of electronic visualisation in culture and the arts
MONDAY 9th JULY - FRIDAY 13th JULY 2007
Full three day conference programme with six workshops
http://www.eva-conferences.com/eva_london/
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Workshop 5 will present the European Digital Library project, a highly significant development in cultural digitisation. [read more...]
