Directory of resources


Digital Library Information Resources - Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE

http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Info/
Image and Multimedia Database Resources - Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE
http://sunsite.Berkeley.EDU/Imaging/Databases/

Digital Libraries : Resources and Projects
Discussion list on digital libraries (bibliography, list of electronic journals, programmes of conferences, inventory of American and European projects) set up by IFLA.
http://ifla.inist.fr/II/diglib.htm

Directories of resources
Digital Libraries : a Selected Resource Guide by Katharina Klemperer and Stephen Chapman
http://www.lita.org/ital/1603_klemperer.htm
Building Digital Libraries
http://www.texshare.edu/Services/Professional/digital.html
Electronic Collections Development (mirror site on the ENSSIB server).
http://www.enssib.fr/miroir/okerson/ecd.html

Time & Bits : Managing Digital Continuity
List of resources on preservation of digital documents.
http://www.ahip.getty.edu/timeandbits/links.html

Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography
http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html

 


Projects for electronic access to library collections


Developing countries and mediterranean countries

Memoria - Memory - Mémoire
"Memory of the world" is a programme launched by UNESCO to promote the preservation of library and archival heritage collections throughout the world and ensure widest possible access to them.
http://www.unesco.org/webworld/mdm/index.html

MEDLIB Internet-based virtual library network for the Mediterranean region
Project of a virtual library for the Mediterranean region,launched by UNESCO,MEDLIB aims to built up a network of libraries and information centres by making use of the latest information technologies, notably the Internet. The network is open to all the interested institutions North and South of the Mediterranean. Links to other relevant websites of libraries and archives in this region are also provided.
http://www.unesco.org/webworld/mediter/medlib.htm


Europe and North America

Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE
Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE handles digitisation of collections and dissemination of information to leaders of digital library projects. Digitised collections are available particularly in American history and in literature.
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/

ARTFL Project
ARTFL - American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language (Trésor de la langue française), is a joint project of the University of Chicago and the French "Institut national de la langue française (InaLF). It includes a corpus of texts from the 13th to the 20th century (novels, poetry, theatre, correspondance...). It uses PhiloLogic search software.
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/ARTFL/ARTFL.html

Athena
The texts digitised by Athena include classical literature, texts from Geneva, and university research work. A list of links is provided to digitised texts accessible on other servers.
http://un2sg1.unige.ch/www/athena/html/authors.html

Electronic Text Center
The Electronic Text Center of the University of  Virginia provides several thousand texts in English, French, German, Japonese and Latin in SGML format according to the recommendations of the "Text Encoding Initiative".
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/

Project Gutenberg
One of the earliest projects for a library of digitised texts, started by Michael Hart. It includes selected literary texts and reference materials in the public domain..
http://promo.net/pg/

Canadiana
A virtual library on Canadian history (16th century to 19th century) developed jointly by four Canadian organisations (The "Institut canadien de microreproductions historiques" (ICMH), The National Library of Canada, Laval University Library and the University of Toronto Library).

http://www.canadiana.org/

Prototype for electronic access to theses of the University of Montreal
Full texts of doctoral theses are available in various formats (PDF, SGML, HTML...).
http://www.pum.umontreal.ca/theses/index.html

Elise Project (Electronic Library Image Service for Europe)
A projet supported by the European Commission (DG XIII) within the framework of the "Telematics for Libraries" Programme ELISE I (1993-1995) was followed by ELISE II (1996-1999).
http://severn.dmu.ac.uk/elise/

Digital libraries in the United Kingdom
e-Lib : Electronic Libraries Programme
http://ukoln.bath.ac.uk/elib/intro.html
Ariadne : journal on digital library projects
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/back/

GALLICA
A website providing experimental distance access to the digitised collections of the Bibliothèque nationale de France, BnF (French National Library) : full texts of French literary classics from the Middle Age to the 19th century, scientific texts, photographs and audio documents.
http://gallica.bnf.fr/

Computerization Project of the Archivo General De Indias, Seville, Spain
Strategies and Results
The project to digitise the "Archivo General de Indias" (Archives of the Indies), in Seville, Spain; introduced by Pedro González, 1998.
http://www.clir.org/cpa/reports/gonzalez/contents.html

MUISTI Project documents
A Finnish project fordigitisation in cooperation between archives, libraries and museums.
http://linnea.helsinki.fi/memory/raporte.html

Retrospektive Digitalisierung von Bibliotheksbeständen
A virtual library project for researchers, created by the network of German libraries.
http://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/ebene_2/vdf/einstieg.htm

 


Building up a digital library


Methodological texts, guides and standards

Digitisation of rare library materials. Storage and access to data
A CD-ROM edited by Adolf Knoll, Library of the Czech Republic, 1999, available also on the website of UNESCO. Deals with the topics of digitisation, description and document formats.Note in particular the section on digitisation of rare and precious documents.
http://www.unesco.org/webworld/mdm/czech_digitization
/index.html

Digitisation of the cultural heritage
Texts and recommendations  for those involved in the digitisation of heritage collections (curators, documentalists, photographers...) : general policy of the French Ministry of Culture and Communication, notes on information technology methods and materials, legal texts, model contracts, technical specifications.
http://www.culture.fr/culture/mrt/numerisation/index.htm

The Multimedia Library
An extract from the publication « Bibliothèques et informatique » by the Direction du livre et de la lecture (French Minstistry of Culture and Communication) : digitisation of cultural heritage collections (texts, images, sound).
http://www.culture.fr/culture/mrt/numerisation/fr/dll.htm

Protection and enhancement of the library heritage
Contains technical specifications for the preservation of heritage documents (see especially chapter 13 : digitisation of heritage documents).
http://www.culture.fr/culture/conservation/fr/preventi/
guide_dll.htm

Introduction to Imaging
This clear and concise guide published by the Getty Institute gives essential information for constructing an image database, with a glossary.
http://www.gii.getty.edu/intro_imaging/

Documents of the Library of Congress
Methodological and technical information about digitisation projects of the Library of Congress (e.g. 'American memory', digitisation of manuscripts...)
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ftpfiles.html
Digital formats
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/formats.html
Report on the digitisation of manuscripts
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/pictel/index.html
Access and interoperability
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/award/docs/interop.html

Documents of the University of Virginia
These web pages of the Special Collections Digital Center provide information on digitisation through links to online publications on technical matters, sites dealing with the description of digital documents, digital data files, websites for legal information, organisations and associations working on digitisation (mainly museums), commercial websites, information on graphics file formats and image colour...
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/speccol/scdc/scdc.html
Links to web pages presenting standards (SGML, XML, HTML, TEI, EAD).
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/standard.html

eLib standards guidelines
From the UK Office for Library and Information Networking (UKOLN)
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/services/elib/papers/other/standards/

Guide for digital information
How to treat digital documents. Guide published by the European Union, 1998, full document downloadable in PDF format.
http://www2.echo.lu/dlm/fr/gdlines-fr.pdf

Text Encoding Initiative
Requirements for the creation and exchange of electronic documents (an international project).
http://www-tei.uic.edu/orgs/tei/


Specialised magazines

D-lib Magazine
The Magazine of Digital Library Research
http://www.dlib.org/

Document numérique
Summaries of articles in the journal published by Hermès - print edition. Access to the electronic edition is by paid subscription.
http://www.editions-hermes.fr/dnp.htm

Network Notes
An electronic journal of the National Library of Canada, dealing with networking  projects and technologies.
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/pubs/netnotes/fnetnote.htm

Journal of Digital Information (JoDI)
An elecronic publication of the British Computer Society and Oxford University Press.
http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/

Preservation & Access International Newsletter
http://www.clir.org/pubs/pain/pain03.html

Association of Research Libraries, Transforming Libraries Issues and Innovations
A specialised magazine for technical developments in libraries.
http://www.arl.org/transform/

Informations about digital libraries
The "News" page of the EPIC website (European Preservation Information Center).
http://www.knaw.nl/ecpa/ecpatex/news.htm

 


Discussion List


DigLibns Electronic Discussion

A discussion list on digital libraries.
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/DigLibns/

 

Websites last visited : 2nd August 1999