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- Center for Research and Development of Digital Libraries (CRADLE) - Based at the University of North Carolina, the center is interested in the migration, management, and accessibility of digital information. It serves as a test bed for the development of new methodologies and also focuses on training and education by collaborating with other academic units, companies and organizations. The site includes some research publications, news, and further information and links.
- International Conference on Digital Archive Technologies (ICDAT 2004) - The 2nd conference was held in Taipei, Taiwan, March 18th-19th. The themes of the conference included: technologies and tools for advanced digital archive systems, new knowledge about archival storage and preservation, best practices of technology development in digital archives, and applications of digital archive technologies.
- Digital Libraries Initiative - Supporting research and projects furthering the development of digital libraries. Includes links to projects, tools, and resources.
- Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA 2005) - Annual conference sponsored by the Interuniversity centre(IUC) held May 30th - June 3rd in Dubrovnik and Mljet, Croatia. The themes of the conference included "What can digital libraries do that traditional cannot? Or do in addition?" and "Building a small digital library and digital library network." The site includes links to past conferences.
- Digital Library Federation - Developing the means of creating, maintaining, expanding, and preserving a distributed collection of digital materials.
- The development of digital libraries for blind and visually impaired people, Ariadne Issue 30 - Report on a selection of papers presented in Washington at the 2001 IFLA pre-conference for the Section of Libraries for the Blind (SLB).
- eVALUEd - Project based at the University of Central England to develop a transferable evaluation model for e-library developments, which began in December 2001 and completed in May 2004. There is a link to the evaluation toolkit from the homepage.
- Canadian Initiative on Digital Libraries - An alliance of Canadian libraries and organizations to promote, coordinate and facilitate the development of collections and services. Site contains general information with links to members' projects and further resources; also available in French.
- Digital Himalaya - A pilot project to develop digital collection, storage, and distribution strategies for multimedia anthropological information from the Himalayan region.
- Digital collections and programs: Library functions - Building digital collections at the Library of Congress.
Wikipedia Articles
- METS - The Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard schema is a standard for encoding descriptive, administrative, and structural metadata regarding objects within a digital library, expressed using the XML schema language of the World Wide Web Consortium. The standard is maintained in the Network Development and MARC Standards Office of the Library of Congress, and is being developed as an initiative of the Digital Library Federation.
- Virtual Health Library - The Virtual Health Library (VHL) is an on-line (digital library) and common space for the convergence of the cooperative work of producers, intermediaries, and users of information on health sciences, built and developed by the Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information (also known as BIREME) in 1998. The VHL promotes the development of ...
- Centre Virtuel de la Connaissance sur l'Europe (CVCE) - The Centre Virtuel de la Connaissance sur l'Europe ((Virtual Resource Centre for Knowledge about Europe — CVCE) is a Luxembourg-based public undertaking whose main activity is the development of European NAvigator, the first digital library on the history of European integration.
- International School of Information Science - The International School of Information Science (ISIS) in Egypt was founded to initiate, develop, carry out and promote research and development of activities and projects related to building a universal digital library. ISIS was also created in order to maximize creativity and foster innovations within the Bibliotheca Alexandrina.
- D-Lib Magazine - D-Lib Magazine is an on-line magazine dedicated to digital library research and development. Content of current and past issues are available free of charge.