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A lire, notamment, dans la dernière livraison de D-Lib Magazine (vol. 14, n° 3-4, mar.-avr.08): - The Australian METS Profile - A Journey about Metadata (Judith Pearce, David Pearson, Megan Williams and Scott Yeadon, National Library of Australia) In any journey, there's a destination but half the 'fun' is getting there. This article chronicles our journey towards a common way of packaging and exchanging digital content in a future Australian data commons – a national corpus of research resources that can be shared and re-used. Whatever packaging format is used, it has to handle complex content models and work across multiple submission and dissemination scenarios. It has to do this in a way that maintains a history of the chain of custody of objects over time. At the start of our journey we chose METS extended by PREMIS to do this. We learnt a lot during the first two stages that we want to share with those travelling to a similar destination. - Using Open Source Social Software as Digital Library Interface (Erik Mitchell and Kevin Gilbertson, Wake Forest University) This article investigates the use of social software applications in digital library environments. It examines the use of blogging software as an interface to digital library content stored in a separate repository. The article begins with a definition of digital library approaches and features, examines ways in which open source and social software applications can serve to fill digital library roles, and presents a case study of the use of blogging software as a public interface to a project called Digital Forsyth, a grant-funded project involving three institutions in Forsyth County, NC. The article concludes with a review of positive and negative outcomes from this approach and makes recommendations for further research.

Seamus Ross, Digital Preservation, Archival Science and Methodological Foundations for Digital Libraries (ECDL 2007): "Digital libraries, whether commercial, public or personal, lie at the heart of the information society. Yet research into their long term viability and the meaningful accessibility of their contents remains in its infancy. In general, as we have pointed out elsewhere, ‘after more than twenty years of research in digital curation and preservation the actual theories, methods, and technologies that can either foster or ensure digital longevity remain startlingly limited.’ Research led by DigitalPreservationEurope and the Digital Preservation Cluster of DELOS has allowed us to refine the key research challenges—theoretical, methodological, and technological—that need attention by researchers in digital libraries during the coming five to ten years if we are to ensure that the materials held in our emerging digital libraries are to remain are sustainable, authentic, accessible, and understandable over time. Building on this work and taking the theoretical framework of archival science as a foundation this paper investigates digital preservation and its foundation role if digital libraries are to have long-term viability at the centre of the global information society." Via Lorcan Dempsey's weblog

Contexts and Contributions: Building the Distributed Library The focus of this report is an analysis of digital library aggregation services. As its title suggests it spends some time discussing environmental contexts, as well as particular cases (or contributions). [...] The [...] report aims to inform DLF's continuing efforts "to foster better teaching and scholarship through easier, more relevant discovery of digital resources, and a much greater ability for libraries to build more responsive local services on top of a distributed metadata platform" Source: Lorcan Dempsey's Weblog

Preserving Access to Digital Information (PADI) est un portail de la National Library of Australia: des références, des documents, des projets, etc. sur les ressources électroniques/numériques et leur conservation.

Oxford a mis en ligne une version beta-test de sa bibliothèque virtuelle, Oxford Digital Library. Dix collections sont proposées pour l'instant. Oxford a utilisé le logiciel Greenstone (une production du New Zealand Digital Library Project, Université de Waikato). Source: ResourceShelf

Les bibliothèques de Cornell University ont choisi Microsoft pour numériser une partie significative de leurs ouvrages (déjà dans le domaine public) et donc Windows Live Search Books pour l'exposition en ligne. Source: Library Journal

L'Université de Cambridge (avec l'aide de quelques sponsors) propose "The complete work of Charles Darwin Online", une collection des oeuvres de C. Darwin en ligne et en accès libre. Source: Techmeme

A noter aussi dans le D-Lib de septembre : - Perspectives on Teachers as Digital Library Users (Consumers, Contributors, and Designers) Petit extrait, 1er § : [...] digital libraries should exploit "Web 2.0" capabilities in order to support collaboration, contextualization, and user contributions. In short, digital libraries should implement new models of user interaction that go beyond simple (but powerful) search [...]