International Digital Library Initiatives
The document outlines various international digital library initiatives, including projects like the Alexandria Digital Library, arXiv, and the Biodiversity Heritage Library. It provides a history of each initiative, their purpose, and the types of materials they offer, with links to their respective websites. Additionally, it describes the funding sources and member libraries associated with these digital libraries.
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- 2. InternationalDL Initiatives Digital LibraryWebsite Address Alexandria Digital (Research) Library ArXiv Bartleby.com Biodiversity Heritage Library British History Online California Digital Library Chinese Text Project CiteSeerX www.alexandria.ucsb.edu www.arxiv.org www.bartleby.com www.biodiversitylibrary.org www.british-history.ac.uk www.cdlib.org http://ctext.org/ citeseerx.ist.psu.edu
- 3. InternationalDL Initiatives Digital LibraryWebsite Address Darwin Online Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative Google Books HathiTrust Internet Archive JSTOR LibriVox Open Library Project Gutenberg Universal Digital Library World Digital Library Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) darwin-online.org.uk cdli.ucla.edu books.google.com www.hathitrust.org www.archive.org www.jstor.org www.librivox.org openlibrary.org www.gutenberg.org www.ulib.org www.wdl.org www.ndltd.org
- 4. AlexandriaDigital Library • adistributeddigitallibrary withcollectionsofgeographically referencedmaterials. • One of thesix projects fundedunder DLI-1 • Based atUniversity ofCaliforniaat SantaBarbara (UCSB) • An online informationsystembasedona traditionalmaplibrary housed in theMapandImageryLaboratory (MIL)in the Davidson Library atUCSB. • Accessibleathttps://www.alexandria.ucsb.edu/
- 5. Contents • ADL mainlycontainsmaterials in which geographical areas are referenced. • Initially, ADL contained only cartographic materials, mainly maps. • Later, its scope was expanded to includeother materialsuch as photographs, images, etc. in which geographical areas are referenced
- 6. History & Development •ADLProject beganin 1994withthe launch of DLI-1 • The Project was fundedby NSF, DARPAandNASA • It wasa continuationof earlier attempttoautomatethe ‘map library’ atUCSB • It includes collectionsofgeoreferencedphotographs,reports relatingto specificareas,news storiesaboutplaces and evensome music scores
- 7. AlexandriaDigital ResearchLibrary • ADRLwas an attemptto upgrade ADL. • Project began in 2013. • Includes collectionsof digital research materials, including images, text, streamed media, and numeric and spatialdata available at UCSB library. • ADRL acts as a single access point to variety of materials available at UCSB library.
- 9. arXiv • Pronounced “archive” •It is a repository of electronic preprints of scientific papers • Covered areas include physics, mathematics,computer science, nonlinearsciences, quantitativebiology and statistics. • Started in August 1991 • Website address: arxiv.org
- 11. arXiv • arXiv ismaintainedand operated by CornellUniversity Library • Guided by arXiv ScientificAdvisory Board andarXiv Member Advisory Board • Each subject archive is moderated with the help of subject moderators • Users can submit theirarticles toarXiv • Users can also search and retrieve papers
- 12. bartleby.com • Bartleby.comis anelectronic textarchive. • Headquarters in NewYork • Founded in1993 under thename“Project Bartleby” • Founded by StevenH. van Leeuwenas apersonal, non-profit collectionof classic literatureon the websiteof Columbia University. • In 1994, hepublishedfirstclassic bookin HTML • In 1997, thedomainbartleby.comwas started • By 2013,more than onebillionpageshadbeen accessed.
- 14. BiodiversityHeritageLibrary • a consortiumofnaturalhistory andbotanicallibraries • Libraries in consortiumcooperatetodigitizeand makeaccessible thelegacy literatureof biodiversityheld in theircollections. • Cooperateto makethatliteratureavailableforopenaccess and responsibleuse as a part ofa global“biodiversitycommons.” • Accessibleathttp://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/
- 16. BHL: Vision &Mission •Vision: Inspiring discovery through free access to biodiversity knowledge. • Mission: The Biodiversity Heritage Library improves research methodology by collaboratively making biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community.
- 17. History & Development •BHL was launchedin 2005 • Initially there were 10 foundingmembers. • At present, 15 libraries are members of BHL Funding Sources • John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation • Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation • The Richard Lounsbery Foundation • Institute of Museum and Library Services
- 18. BHLMember Libraries: FoundingMember Libraries •American Museum of Natural History (New York, New York) • Field Museum of Natural History (Chicago, Illinois) • Botany Libraries (Harvard University Herbaria) (Cambridge, Massachusetts) • Ernst Mayr Library (Museum of Comparative Zoology) (Cambridge, Massachusetts) • Marine Biological Laboratory of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution • (Woods Hole, Massachusetts) • Missouri Botanical Garden (St.Louis, Missouri) • Natural History Museum (London, England) • The New York Botanical Garden (Bronx, New York) • Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Richmond, United Kingdom) • Smithsonian Institution (Washington D.C.)
- 19. BHL Member Libraries:Later Additions 2009 • AcademyofNaturalSciences(Philadelphia,Pennsylvania) • CaliforniaAcademyofSciences(SanFrancisco,California) 2011 • CornellUniversityLibrary(Ithaca,NewYork) • UnitedStatesGeologicalSurvey(Reston,Virginia) 2013 • LibraryofCongress(WashingtonD.C.)
- 20. British History Online •a digitallibrary ofprimary and secondary sources on medieval andmodern history of GreatBritain andIreland. • a cooperative venture by theInstituteof Historical Research, University ofLondon and the History ofParliamentTrust. • Access tothemajorityof thecontentis free,whileother contentis availableonly to paying subscribers. • Accessibleathttp://www.british-history.ac.uk/
- 22. History & Development •British HistoryOnline beganwith a one-year pilot project in 2002 (Version 1.0) • Version 5.0 was launched in December 2014.
- 23. Placescoveredby BHO • East(ofEngland) •London • Midlands(of England) • North (of England) • South East(ofEngland) • South West(ofEngland) • Ireland • Scotland • Wales
- 24. CaliforniaDigital Library • FoundedbytheUniversity of California in 1997 • A collaborative effortof thetencampuses, organizationally housed at theUniversity of CaliforniaOffice of thePresident. • Considered as the“eleventhlibrary” of University of California. • Accessible at http://www.cdlib.org/
- 26. Features/Servicesof CDL • Access&PublishingGroup – comprisesthePublishingandDigitalSpecialCollections(DSC) teams. – developsandmaintainsproductionservicesthatenablerobustaccessto theuniquedigitalassetsoftheUniversityofCaliforniaandbeyond • eScholarship – a suiteofopenaccessscholarlypublishingservicesandresearchtools thatenableUC departments,researchunits,publishingprograms,and individualscholarstohavedirectcontrolover thecreationand disseminationoftheir scholarship
- 27. Features/Servicesof CDL • OnlineArchive ofCalifornia (OAC) – providesfree publicaccesstoprimarysources—includingmanuscripts, photographs,artwork, scientificdata andmore—throughmore than 38,000collectionguidesand200,000digitizedimagesanddocuments. • Calisphere – a free websitethatofferseducators,students,andthepublicaccessto morethan200,000primarysourcessuchas photographs,documents, newspapers,politicalcartoons,worksofart, diaries,transcribedoral histories,andother culturalartifacts.
- 28. CiteSeerX • AninitiativeofPennsylvania StateUniversity(PSU),USA • A scientific literature digital library and search engine that has focused primarily on the literature in computer and information science. • It attempts to provide resources such as algorithms, data, metadata, services, techniques, and software that can be used to promoteotherdigitallibraries. • Accessibleathttp://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu
- 30. History • CiteSeerwas developedin 1997 at theNEC Research Institute,Princeton, New Jersey, by Steve Lawrence, Lee Giles and KurtBollacker. • It was takenover by PennsylvaniaStateUniversity's College of InformationSciences and Technology in2003.
- 31. Featuresof CiteSeerX • AutonomousCitation Indexing:a citation index is automaticallycreated, which can be used for literaturesearch & evaluation • CitationStatistics: statisticsare computed for all articles cited in the database, not just indexed articles. • Reference linking:allows browsing of thedatabase using citation links.
- 32. Featuresof CiteSeerX • Citationcontext:contextof citation toa given paper. • Related documents: word based metrics, updated bibliography • Harvesting of articles:CiteSeerX automaticallyharvests research papers from thepublic Web butalso accepts submissions through a submission system.
- 33. Featuresof CiteSeerX • Metadataof articles:CiteSeerautomaticallyextractsand provides metadatafrom allindexedarticles. • Personal ContentPortal: provides certain featuressuch as personal collections,RSS-likenotifications,social bookmarking, andsocialnetworkfacilities. • Authordisambiguation:Usingscalablemethodsauthors are automaticallydisambiguatedfrom otherauthors.
- 34. InternetArchive • A non-profitdigitallibrary based inSan Francisco • provides free public access to collections of digitized materials, including web sites, software applications/games, music, movies/videos, moving images. • Containsnearly three millionpublic domain books • Accessible at archive.org
- 36. History • Founded byBrewster Kahlein May 1996 • Annualbudget of $10 million • Funding from various services & sources • Headquarters atSan Francisco, California
- 37. WaybackMachine • An importantservice of theInternetArchive • This service allows users to view archived webpages. • Millions of web sites andtheir associated data (images, source code, documents, etc.) are saved in a database. • Accessible at waybackmachine.org
- 38. JSTOR • Pronounced“jay-stor”(short formofjournalstorage) •A digitallibrary initiallycontainingcontainingdigitizedback issues of academicjournals • it now also includes books and primary sources, and current issues ofjournals • It provides fulltextsearches ofalmost2,000journals • More than 8,000institutionsin morethan 160countries have access toJSTOR
- 40. History • Founded in1995 by William G. Bowen, President of Princeton University from 1972 to1988. • initiallyconsidered usingCDROMs for distribution. • By 1989, PrincetonUniversity buildingswere networked. • By 1995, JSTORwas accessible at seven library websites
- 41. Content • content isprovided by more than900publishers. • containsmore than1,900 journal titles,in more than50 disciplines.
- 42. Project Gutenberg • Adigitallibrarycontainingthefulltextofpublic-domainbooks. • Theprojectattemptstomake accessasfree aspossible. • Documentsare storedinopenformatswhichcanbeaccessedonalmost everycomputer. • Documentsare availablemainlyintextformat. • Other formats suchas HTML,PDF,EPUBare alsoavailable. • A fewnon-textitemssuchas audiofilesandmusicnotes • Accessibleatwww.gutenberg.org
- 44. History • Founded in1971by MichaelS. Hart • First documentwas postedon December1, 1971. • Considered the oldestdigitallibrary. • As of October 2016, theProject contains53,000 freee-booksin its collection. • An average of50 e-booksare being addedevery week. • Proofreading ofscanned textsis done byDistributedProofreaders, a non-profitInternet-basedcommunity.
- 45. Subjectcategoriesof content Animals Children’s Collection Classics Countries Crime Education Fiction Fine Arts General Works Geography History Language and Literature Law Music Periodicals Psychology and Philosophy Religion Science Social Sciences Technology Wars
- 46. Sister Projectsof ProjectGutenberg SisterProject Content Project Gutenberg of Australia books which are in the public domain in Australia Project Gutenberg of Canada Canadiana literature in English and French, in the public domain in Canada Projekt Gutenberg DE German literature Project Gutenberg Europe European languages and cultures Project Gutenberg Self Publishing Portal facilitating online publishing by contemporary authors. Allows authors to publish their works. Projekt Runeberg Nordic literature ReadingRoo.ms textual items for unlimited redistribution. The items which are not yet ready for the main Project Gutenberg are available at ReadingRoo.ms for reading.