Digital Libraries: Challenges and Influential Work
This gives a lot of history about the development of digital libraries, which is pretty interesting. I think this quote does the best job of showing just how long digital library programs have been going on, something which surprised me: "When DLI-1 began, the World Wide Web was in a very nascent stage. At that time, the University of Illinois' National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) Mosaic 2.0 beta was the Web browser of choice, the HTML 2.0 standard was still under development, Netscape had yet to release its first Web browser and Microsoft Windows 3.1 was the standard personal computer operating system."
Dewey Meets Turing: Librarians, Computer Scientists, and the Digital Libraries Initiative
This article also had a lot of background, but from a different perspective than we usually read. Rather than strictly informational, it talked about how this project brought together Librarians and Computer Scientists. I enjoyed this article, and seeing a more human perspective to the things we've been learning about.
Association of Research Libraries :: Institutional Repositories: Essential Infrastructure for Scholarship in the Digital Age
This article talks about the benefits of institutional repositories, but also a few of the problems that can arise if we're not careful. This is pretty straight-forward, so I don't have much to say about it really.
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I liked the second article also. I think it is interesting reading about the perspective of the scientists as well as the librarians.
ReplyDeleteI also liked the second article. An interesting combo of perspectives & something I think we should all take into consideration.
ReplyDeleteI liked reading the history of the digital library...We are so consumed by putting everything online. I can't really understand the obsession but its important to know as much we can about digital libraries.
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