Digital Image Access & Retrieval

The 33th Annual Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing, held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in March of 1996, addressed the theme of "Digital Image Access & Retrieval." The papers from this conference cover a wide range of topics concerning digital imaging technology for visual resource collections. Papers covered three general areas: (1) systems, planning, and implementation; (2) automatic and semi-automatic indexing; and (3) preservation with the bulk of the conference focusing on indexing and retrieval.published or submitted for publicatio

Illinois Digital Scholarship: Preserving and Accessing the Digital Past, Present, and Future

Since the University's establishment in 1867, its scholarly output has been issued primarily in print, and the University Library and Archives have been readily able to collect, preserve, and to provide access to that output. Today, technological, economic, political and social forces are buffeting all means of scholarly communication. Scholars, academic institutions and publishers are engaged in debate about the impact of digital scholarship and open access publishing on the promotion and tenure process. The upsurge in digital scholarship affects many aspects of the academic enterprise, including how we record, evaluate, preserve, organize and disseminate scholarly work. The result has left the Library with no ready means by which to archive digitally produced publications, reports, presentations, and learning objects, much of which cannot be adequately represented in print form. In this incredibly fluid environment of digital scholarship, the critical question of how we will collect, preserve, and manage access to this important part of the University scholarly record demands a rational and forward-looking plan - one that includes perspectives from diverse scholarly disciplines, incorporates significant research breakthroughs in information science and computer science, and makes effective projections for future integration within the Library and computing services as a part of the campus infrastructure.Prepared jointly by the University of Illinois Library and CITES at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaig

Supporting Research Information Management in the Research University: Partnerships, Challenges, and Possibilities

Research universities are increasingly engaging in complex efforts to collect and synthesize information about an institution’s research footprint. The collection, updating, and sharing of the campus’s bibliographic research outputs is an increasingly important part of this effort, as institutions seek to develop external profiling systems and enable collaborator discovery and to also increasingly internally understand the research strengths and synergies of an institution for planning and assessment. Institutions are adopting a variety of tools to support research information management (RIM), faculty activity reporting (FAR), and researcher collaboration and discovery on campus. In this presentation, we will talk about the complex and enterprise wide institutional environment in which this research information management effort is taking place, including an overview of the multiple stakeholders: libraries, research offices, colleges and departments, provosts, and many others. The University of Illinois and Virginia Tech University will provide in-depth case studies about their own campus efforts, talking specifically about campus partnerships, RIM products, bibliographic data sources and gaps, implementation challenges, and faculty engagement. We will conclude with a discussion about the opportunities for greater interoperability between siloed campus systems that collect bibliographic metadata, and the important and evolving role of the library in this emerging and poorly defined community of practice

Workset Creation for Scholarly Analysis and Data Capsules (WCSA+DC): Laying the foundations for secure computation with copyrighted data in the HathiTrust Research Center, Phase I

The primary objective of the WCSA+DC project is the seamless integration of the workset model and tools with the Data Capsule framework to provide non-consumptive research access HathiTrust’s massive corpus of data objects, securely and at scale, regardless of copyright status. That is, we plan to surmount the copyright wall on behalf of scholars and their students. Notwithstanding the substantial preliminary work that has been done on both the WCSA and DC fronts, they are both still best characterized as being in the prototyping stages. It is our intention to that this proposed Phase I of the project devote an intense two-year burst of effort to move the suite of WCSA and DC prototypes from the realm of proof-of-concept to that of a firmly integrated at-scale deployment. We plan to concentrate our requested resources on making sure our systems are as secure and robust at scale as possible. Phase I will engage four external research partners. Two of the external partners, Kevin Page (Oxford) and Annika Hinze (Waikato) were recipients of WCSA prototyping sub-awards. We are very glad to propose extending and refining aspects of their prototyping work in the context of WCSA+DC. Two other scholars, Ted Underwood (Illinois) and James Pustejovsky (Brandeis) will play critical roles in Phase I as active participants in the development and refinement of the tools and systems from their particular user-scholar perspectives: Underwood, Digital Humanities (DH); Pustejovsky, Computational Linguistics (CL). The four key outcomes and benefits of the WCSA+DC, Phase I project are: 1. The deployment of a new Workset Builder tool that enhances search and discovery across the entire HTDL by complementing traditional volume-level bibliographic metadata with new metadata derived from a variety of sources at various levels granularity. 2. The creation of Linked Open Data resources to help scholars find, select, integrate and disseminate a wider range of data as part of their scholarly analysis life-cycle. 3. A new Data Capsule framework that integrates worksets, runs at scale, and does both in a secure, non-consumptive, manner. 4. A set of exemplar pre-built Data Capsules that incorporate tools commonly used by both the DH and CL communities that scholars can then customize to their specific needs.Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, grant no. 41500672Ope

Introduction to Library Trends 48 (2) 1999: Progress in Visual Information Access and Retrieval

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Introduction: The Library of Congress National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program

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ECHO DEPository Technical Architecture Phase 1 Final Report

The ECHO DEPository (Phase 1) is an NDIIPP-partner research and development project at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in partnership with OCLC, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications); the Michigan State University Library; and an alliance of state libraries from Arizona, Connecticut, Illinois, North Carolina and Wisconsin. Our aim is to support the digital preservation efforts of the Library of Congress by addressing issues of how we collect, manage, preserve, and make useful the enormous amount of digital information our culture is now producing. Phase 1 project activities (Fall 2004 through 2007) included developing web archiving tools, evaluating existing repository software, developing an architecture to enhance existing repositories??? interoperability and preservation features, and modeling next-generation repositories for supporting long-term preservation. This narrative report describes project activities and deliverables during ECHO DEP 1.unpublishednot peer reviewe

Bibliotecas e Internet.

Traducción del capitulo "Libraries and The Internet" del libro Techno logy and Managernent in Library and Information Services, de F. Wilfrid Lan caster y Betb Sandore. Trata sobre la influencia de Internet en los servicios y operaciones bibliotecarias. Apunta los esfuerzos más destacables en la integra ción de la red Internet en las bibliotecas americanas y las actuaciones más re levantes llevadas a cabo por organismos internacionales comprometidos con la normalización y la transmisión electrónica de datos bibliográficos. También explica los cambios que se están produciendo los roles de los profesionales bi bliotecarios y los nuevos puestos de trabajo que están surgiendo en este tipo de unidades informativas

Bibliotecas e Internet.

Traducción del capitulo "Libraries and The Internet" del libro Techno logy and Managernent in Library and Information Services, de F. Wilfrid Lan caster y Betb Sandore. Trata sobre la influencia de Internet en los servicios y operaciones bibliotecarias. Apunta los esfuerzos más destacables en la integra ción de la red Internet en las bibliotecas americanas y las actuaciones más re levantes llevadas a cabo por organismos internacionales comprometidos con la normalización y la transmisión electrónica de datos bibliográficos. También explica los cambios que se están produciendo los roles de los profesionales bi bliotecarios y los nuevos puestos de trabajo que están surgiendo en este tipo de unidades informativas

Content Discovery, Services, and Sustained Access

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