Fri, 04 Jul 2008 23:39:24 BST CiteULike: JSicot digital_libraries http://www.citeulike.org/user/JSicot/tag/digital_libraries CiteULike.org en-gb Copyright © 2004-2008 citeulike.org http://www.citeulike.org/user/JSicot/article/1373236 <i>International Journal on Digital Libraries, Vol. 6, No. 2. (April 2006), pp. 148-158.</i><br /><br />Abstract  METS is an XML document format intended for the encoding of complex objects within digital libraries. It provides the means to record all of the descriptive, administrative, structural and behavioral metadata needed to manage and provide access to complex digital content. While it was designed to promote interoperability of digital content between digital library systems and contribute to the preservation of digital library materials, a variety of practical barriers to achieving these goals remain. However, many of these obstacles are shared by other communities of practice, such as the eLearning community working on the IMS content packaging standards and the MPEG-21 community, and the digital library community faces a unique opportunity at the moment to work closely with others to try to improve the interoperability of our content not only with our own repository systems, but those being used by others. METS: standardized encoding for digital library objects Jerome Mcdonough doi:10.1007/s00799-005-0132-1 International Journal on Digital Libraries, Vol. 6, No. 2. (April 2006), pp. 148-158. 2007-06-08T18:13:12-00:00 2006 International Journal on Digital Libraries 6 2 148 158 digital_libraries mets http://www.citeulike.org/user/JSicot/article/1988959 <i>International Journal on Digital Libraries, Vol. 8, No. 1. (26 November 2007), pp. 21-38.</i><br /><br />Abstract  Digital libraries (DLs) are new and innovative information systems, under constant development and change, and therefore evaluation is of critical importance to ensure not only their correct evolution but also their acceptance by the user and application communities. The Evaluation activity of the DELOS Network of Excellence has performed a large-scale survey of current DL evaluation activities. This study has resulted in a description of the state of the art in the field, which is presented in this paper. The paper also proposes a new framework for the evaluation of DLs, as well as for recording, describing and analyzing the related research field. The framework includes a methodology for the classification of current evaluation procedures. The objective is to provide a set of flexible and adaptable guidelines for DL evaluation. Evaluation of digital libraries Norbert Fuhr Giannis Tsakonas Trond Aalberg Maristella Agosti Preben Hansen Sarantos Kapidakis Claus-Peter Klas László Kovács Monica Landoni András Micsik Christos Papatheodorou Carol Peters Ingeborg Sølvberg doi:10.1007/s00799-007-0011-z International Journal on Digital Libraries, Vol. 8, No. 1. (26 November 2007), pp. 21-38. 2007-11-26T22:38:44-00:00 2007 International Journal on Digital Libraries 8 1 21 38 digital_libraries http://www.citeulike.org/user/JSicot/article/2349494 <i>Social Science Research Network Working Paper Series (29 January 2008)</i><br /><br />The growth and increasing complexity of global science poses a grand challenge to scientists: How to organise the worldwide evaluation of research programmes and peers? For the 21st century we need not just information on science, but also meta-level scientific information that is delivered to the digital workbench of every researcher. Access, usage and citation metrics will be one major information service that researchers will need on an everyday basis to handle the complexity of science.Scientometrics has been built on centralised commercial databases of high functionality but restricted scope, mainly providing information that may be used for research assessment. Enter digital libraries and repositories: Can they collect reliable metadata at source, ensure universal metric coverage and defray costs? This systematic appraisal of the future role of digital libraries and repositories for metric research evaluation proceeds by investigating the practical inadequacies of current metric evaluation before defining the scope for libraries and repositories as new players. Subsequently the notion of metrics as research information services is developed. Finally, the future relationship between a) libraries and repositories and b) metrics databases, commercial or non-commercial, is addressed.Service reviewed include: Leiden Ranking, Webometrics Ranking of World Universities, COUNTER, MESUR, Harzing POP, CiteSeer, Citebase, RePEc LogEc and CitEc, Scopus, Web of Science and Google Scholar. Access, Usage and Citation Metrics: What Function for Digital Libraries and Repositories in Research Evaluation? Chris Armbruster Social Science Research Network Working Paper Series (29 January 2008) 2008-02-07T15:31:24-00:00 2008 Social Science Research Network Working Paper Series bibliometrie digital_libraries ir research_assessment scientometrie http://www.citeulike.org/user/JSicot/article/240947 <i>(01 December 2005)</i><br /><br />Questions about access to scholarship go back farther than recent debates over subscription prices, rights, and electronic archives suggest. The great libraries of the past -- from the fabled collection at Alexandria to the early public libraries of nineteenth-century America -- stood as arguments for increasing access. In <i>The Access Principle</i>, John Willinsky describes the latest chapter in this ongoing story -- online open access publishing by scholarly journals -- and makes a case for open access as a public good.<br /> <br /> A commitment to scholarly work, writes Willinsky, carries with it a responsibility to circulate that work as widely as possible: this is the access principle. In the digital age, that responsibility includes exploring new publishing technologies and economic models to improve access to scholarly work. Wide circulation adds value to published work; it is a significant aspect of its claim to be knowledge. The right to know and the right to be known are inextricably mixed. Open access, argues Willinsky, can benefit both a researcher-author working the best-equipped lab at a leading research university and a teacher struggling to find resources in an impoverished high school.<br /> <br /> Willinsky describes different types of access -- the <i>New England Journal of Medicine</i>, for example, grants open access to issues six months after initial publication, and <i>First Monday</i> forgoes a print edition and makes its contents immediately accessible at no cost. He discusses the contradictions of copyright law, the reading of research, and the economic viability of open access. He also considers broader themes of public access to knowledge, human rights issues, lessons from publishing history, and "epistemological vanities." The debate over open access, writes Willinsky, raises crucial questions about the place of scholarly work in a larger world -- and about the future of knowledge. The Access Principle : The Case for Open Access to Research and Scholarship (Digital Libraries and Electronic Publishing) John Willinsky (01 December 2005) 2005-06-30T12:41:38-00:00 2005 The MIT Press digital_libraries open_access http://www.citeulike.org/user/JSicot/article/1372973 <i>(2006), pp. 230-9.</i> Metadata aggregation and "automated digital libraries": a retrospective on the NSDL experience Carl Lagoze Dean Krafft Tim Cornwell Naomi Dushay Dean Eckstrom John Saylor (2006), pp. 230-9. 2007-06-08T15:04:49-00:00 2006 230 9 digital_libraries harvesting metadata oai-pmh http://www.citeulike.org/user/JSicot/article/1372733 <i>Journal of Information Science, Vol. 32, No. 2. (2006), pp. 149-59.</i> The convergence of digital libraries and the peer-review process Marko Rodriguez Johan Bollen Herbert Van De Sompel Journal of Information Science, Vol. 32, No. 2. (2006), pp. 149-59. 2007-06-08T13:02:50-00:00 2006 Journal of Information Science 32 2 149 59 digital_libraries peer_reviewing http://www.citeulike.org/user/JSicot/article/1372728 <i>D-Lib Magazine, Vol. 12, No. 5. (2006)</i> Using Annotations to Add Value to a Digital Library for Education Robert Arko Kathryn Ginger Kim Kastens John Weatherley D-Lib Magazine, Vol. 12, No. 5. (2006) 2007-06-08T13:02:17-00:00 2006 D-Lib Magazine 12 5 digital_libraries folksonomy