Archiving, preservation
Collection policy, selection
Current awareness
DAMS: Digital Asset Management Systems
DRM: Digital Rights Management
Events, conferences
Featuring UCSD, UC, and CDL
General
Institutional repositories and OAI
Protocols, standards, metadata
Recent & recommended

Recent & recommended -

• What Consumers Want in Digital Rights Management (ALA/AAP White Paper, F. Hill Slowinski, March 21, 2003) A joint paper "promoting the usage capabilities in Digital Rights Management (DRM) products for e-books that publishers, librarians, and researchers say are most needed in order to satisfy consumer preferences." (also listed under our new "DRM" category below)
  
  
• Institutional Repositories: Essential Infrastructure for Scholarship in the Digital Age - Cliff Lynch (ARL Bimonthly Report 226, February 2003). The development of institutional repositories is recounted as "something extraordinary....in the continuing networked information revolution, shifting the dynamic among individually driven innovation, institutional progress, and the evolution of disciplinary scholarly practices."
  
  
• Framing the Issue: Open Access - Mary Case (also from (ARL Bimonthly Report 226, February 2003). A resource guide intended to inform "discussions among library staff, campus administrators, university counsels, faculty, and policymakers about open access and how its application in research institutions can provide a cost-effective way to disseminate and use information."

Featuring UCSD, UC, and CDL -

• MOAC - A Report on Integrating Museum and Archive Access in the Online Archive of California, (D-Lib Jan. 2003). Update on the "OAC."
  
  
• iVia Open Source Virtual Library System (D-Lib, Jan. 2003). The underpinnings of UC Riverside's Infomine, iVia is an open source Internet subject portal or virtual library system.
  
  
• First UC Digital Library Forum: notes and report to SOPAG, August 2002.
  
  
• Sage: Developing a Database for Online Resources at the University of California, San Diego, Steve Lawson and Esme Cowles on Sage, published August 2002 in Library Hi-Tech News. Published article in PDF; prepublication version in Word.
  

Current Awareness -

• Ariadne
• DigiCULT: Technology Challenges for Digital Culture (UK, Europe)
• D-Lib Forum
• Educause Review

General -

• DLF Library of DL Documents (added April 2003). Searchable, browsable collection of DL documents. A great place to start research on DL issues.
  
  
• iDLR: Interactive Digital Library Resource Information System (added July 2002). This is a hand-picked collection of web sites, readings, glossary of terms, etc. on digital libraries. Searchable, topic-organized....and kept up to date by students at the U of Missouri School of Info Science and Learning Technologies.
  
  

• young? maturing? adult? Dan Greenstein and Suzanne Thorin, "The Digital Library: A Biography," 76-page PDF file, published Sept. 2002 by CLIR, and mentioned by Dawn Talbot at LMG.

Events, conferences -

• Calendar of workshops, seminars, conferences (D-Lib)
  
  
• JCDL 2003 May 27-31 at Rice University in Houston.
  
  
• DC-2003 Sept. 28 - Oct. 3 - Seattle: "Supporting Communities of Discourse and Practice"

Archiving, preservation-

• Preservation Management of Digital Materials: A Handbook. Published by the British Library in November 2001 and already out of print.
  
  
• Report of the Workshop on Digital Imagery for Works of Art (pdf) (November 19 and 20, 2001, Mellon, NSF, and Harvard). The workshop addressed how the research and development agenda of computing, information, and imaging scientists can serve the research needs of art historians, curators, and conservators, and vice versa.
  
  

• Trusted Digital Repositories: Attributes and Responsibilities (May 7, 2002 - RLG and OCLC)
  Reports on long-term preservation of and access to research materials in digital form."This report is primarily intended for cultural institutions such as libraries, archives, museums, and scholarly publishers and is specifically aimed at those with traditional or legal responsibilities for the preservation of cultural heritage. It is written to aid senior administrators as well as those implementing digital archiving services.". An appendix provides technical overviews of the "Reference Model for an Open Archival Information System" (OAIS); - a common framework for describing and comparing architectures and operations of digital archives. (Compliance with this model is a defining attribut e of a trusted digital repository.

• Why Digitize? (Abby Smith, February 1999)
  "This paper seeks not to raise false alarms, but to encourage every professional responsible for some aspect of cultural custody to assess this new technology with a hopefulness tempered by patience and informed by experience." Abby Smith was a speaker in April 2002 at one of UCSD Libraries' Digital Dialogs.

Collection Policy / Selection -

• A Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections (IMLS, November 6, 2001)
  The UCSD Libraries DLPWG Standards and Best Practices Subgroup says, "This is a significant document. It was an extremely useful set of principles for us to study as a Subgroup..."
  
  
• University of California Selection Criteria for Digitization (Kim Thompson, 1998)
  Simple criteria, developed to "guide collection development librarians and preservation librarians in selecting collections of analog materials (including paper, film, audio, and video) for conversion to digital format. Some of the criteria are based on conventional selection and preservation considerations common to all formats; others arise from the opportunities and constraints unique to digital technologies."

• Columbia University Libraries Selection Criteria for Digital Imaging (2001)
  "It is expensive to select, create, and maintain digital resources; the cost of image capture accounts for only one-third of the total expense. It is therefore important to assure during the selection process that issues of technical feasibility, intellectual property rights, and institutional support are considered along with the value of the materials and the interest of their content. The criteria listed below are neither exhaustive nor prescriptive, and their relative importance will vary depending on the purpose for which digitization is proposed."
  
  
• Selecting Research Collections for Digitization (Dan Hazen, Jeffrey Horrell, Jan Merrill-Oldham, August 1998).
  "This paper proposes a model of the decision-making process required of research libraries when they embark on digital conversion projects. The authors...place the questions of what and how to digitize into the larger framework of collection building by focusing, first, on the nature of the collections and their use, and, second, on the realities of the institutional context in which these decisions are made."

DAMS: Digital Asset Management Systems -

• Digital Asset Management Systems: How to Manage all of our Content (overview of Digital Asset Management Systems) (Alan McCord, EDUCAUSE, Sept. 6, 2002)
  
  
• University of Michigan DAMS initiative home page: RFP, vendor presentations and links, etc. from U Mich, which is "exploring the potential for deployment of an advanced Digital Asset Management System (DAMS) infrastructure to serve the academic, research, and administrative needs of the University."
  

DRM: Digital Rights Management -

• What Consumers Want in Digital Rights Management (ALA/AAP White Paper, F. Hill Slowinski, March 21, 2003) A joint paper "promoting the usage capabilities in Digital Rights Management (DRM) products for e-books that publishers, librarians, and researchers say are most needed in order to satisfy consumer preferences."

Institutional repositories and OAI -

• DSpace: An Open Source Dynamic Digital Repository (D-Lib Jan. 2003). MIT's ambitious digital institutional repository initiative.

• SPARC Institutional Repository Checklist & Resource Guide, a manual detailing the issues that institutions and consortia need to address in implementing an institutional repository.
  

• The Case for Institutional Repositories: A SPARC Position Paper (PDF version also available) (SPARC, July 2002): "[E]xamines the strategic roles institutional repositories serve for colleges and universities. The paper asserts that institutional repositories are a natural extension of an academic institution's role as a generator of primary research, and envisions such repositories as critical components in the evolving structure of scholarly communication."

• Metadata Harvesting and the Open Archives Initiative (Cliff Lynch, August 2001) Describes the Open Archives Metadata Harvesting Protocol, a mechanism that enables data providers to expose their metadata. In this article Lynch speculates about the new services and system architectures enabled by this protocol. It is one of the clearest statements of the distinction between creating digital repositories (such as eprint repositories), and OAI as a protocol that supports services across repositories.

Protocols, standards, and metadata -

• Choosing a File Format - Advice from the UK (TASI: Technical Advisory Service for Images) on file formats for capture, for master archive, optimisation and manipulation, delivery, commercial printing, desktop printing, web delivery, and multimedia programs.
  
  
• A Metadata Framework to Support the Preservation of Digital Objects (OCLC/RLG, June 2002), issued by the Working Group on Preservation Metadata. "A comprehensive guide...[that] represents the consensus of leading experts and practitioners ... intended for use by organizations and institutions managing, or planning to manage, the long-term retention of digital resources." Follows an earlier report, Preservation Metadata for Digital Objects: A Review of the State of the Art, which "defined and discussed the concept of preservation metadata, reviewed current thinking and practice in the use of preservation metadata, and identified starting points for consensus-building activity in this area."

• MODS: Metadata Object Description Schema (Library of Congress, June 2002): MODS is "an element set that allows for the representation of data already in MARC-based systems, it is intended to allow for the conversion of core fields from a MARC 21 record, while some specific data may be dropped. As an element set for original resource description, it allows for a simple record to be created, in some cases using more general tags than those available in the MARC record."