Digital Library Resources
Please note: this is a very focused list of resources
that are mostly being mentioned or described in talks given by Roy Tennant in New York state, and should be seen only as a starting point for further investigation.
Collections
- American Memory - http://memory.loc.gov/ [a premier example of digital collections from the Library of Congress]
- Catalog Enrichment Initiative - http://www.loc.gov/standards/catenrich/ [an effort to provide enriching information (e.g., tables of contents, cover art, etc.) for library catalogs]
- eScholarship Editions - http://texts.cdlib.org/escholarship/ [1,400 books published online in XML by CDL and UC Press (Univ. of California)]
- JSTOR - http://jstor.org/ [the scholarly journal archive]
- OCLC ResearchWorks - http://www.oclc.org/research/researchworks/ [a great place to play with your future]
- Project Euclid - http://projecteuclid.org/ [serial publishing in math and statistics by the Cornell University Library]
Current Awareness
Open Archives Initiative
- OAIster - http://oaister.org/ [the "academic Google" search service for openly accessible library and museum content]
- Open Archives Initiative - http://www.openarchives.org/ [the main OAI site]
- PKP OAI Harvester - http://www.pkp.ubc.ca/pkp-harvester/ [an easy to setup and use OAI harvester]
- UIUC OAI Registry of Data Providers - http://gita.grainger.uiuc.edu/registry/ [the place to go to find out who is out there to be harvested]
Repositories
RSS
- LISfeeds.com - http://lisfeeds.com/ [A way to read RSS feeds pertinent to libraries using a web browser instead of an RSS reader]
- Yorba Linda Public Library - http://www.ylpl.lib.ca.us/ [an example of a library using RSS to automatically update their web site
Standards
See also Open Archives Initiative, RSS, XHTML and CSS, XML, and XSLT
- Dublin Core - http://dublincore.org/ [a basic set of 15 elements useful as a common meeting ground between richer sets of metadata]
- METS - http://www.loc.gov/standards/ [a standard for encapsulating all the elements of a digital object and the metadata that describes it]
- MODS - http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/ [a bibliographic record standard expressed in XML]
XHTML and CSS
- CSS Zen Garden - http://csszengarden.com/ [the single best site to demonstrate the power of CSS to transform the very same XHTML file simply by using different CSS style sheets]
XML
XSLT