Elli Mylonas
Associate Director, STG, Computing and Information Services
Brown University
Daniel Pitti
Interim Co-Director, Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities
University of Virginia
The Scholarly Technology Group (STG) is part of …
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Project Briefings Presented at the
CNI Fall 2003 Membership Meeting
December 8-9, 2003
Portland, OR
ARTstor: A Project Update
Max Marmor
Director of Collection Development, ARTstor
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
ARTstor is a digital library initiative launched by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Its mission is to use digital technology to enhance scholarship, teaching and …
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Chandler: A Collaborative Open Source Initiative for Higher Education
Jack McCredie
Associate Vice Chancellor, Information Systems & Technology
University of California, Berkeley
Oren Sreebny
Assistant Director, Computing & Communications
University of Washington
Pieter Hartsook
Marketing Specialist
Open …
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Collaborative Filtering: Possibilities for Digital Libraries
Janet Webster
Associate Professor, Head Librarian-Guin Library
Oregon State University
Jon Herlocker
Assistant Professor
Oregon State University
Seikyung Jung
Doctoral candidate
Oregon State University
At Oregon State University (OSU), the OSU …
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Cornell's DCAPS: A New Model for Delivery and Support of Digital Services
H. Thomas Hickerson
Associate University Librarian for Information Technologies and Special Collections
Cornell University
Digital Consulting and Production Services (DCAPS) at Cornell University provides a unified framework for developing and managing a …
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Cornell’s DCAPS: A New Model for Delivery and Support of Digital Services
H. Thomas Hickerson
Associate University Librarian for Information Technologies and Special Collections
Cornell University
Digital Consulting and Production Services (DCAPS) at Cornell University provides a unified framework for developing and managing …
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Digital Library Architecture based on MPEG-21 DIDL, the OAI-PMH, and the OpenURL
Herbert Van de Sompel
Technical Staff Member, Research Library
Los Alamos National Laboratory
For the past year, the Digital Library Research and Prototyping Team of the Los Alamos National Laboratory has architectured and created an initial …
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Digital Preservation and Library Periodicals Expenses: Variance between Non-Subscription Costs for Print and Electronic Formats on a Life-Cycle Basis
Eileen Gifford Fenton
Executive Director, Electronic-Archiving Initiative
JSTOR
Roger Schonfeld
Research Associate
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Recently there has been discussion on LibLicense and other e-mail lists about the economics of archiving …
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Documenting Text Encoding Practices for Academics: The Women Writers Project's TEI Encoding Guide
Julia Flanders
Associate Director, Textbase Development
Scholarly Technology Group
Brown University
The Women Writers Project (WWP) at Brown University is a text encoding research project whose publication, Women Writers Online, is a scholarly digital …
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Documenting Text Encoding Practices for Academics: The Women Writers Project’s TEI Encoding Guide
Julia Flanders
Associate Director, Textbase Development
Scholarly Technology Group
Brown University
The Women Writers Project (WWP) at Brown University is a text encoding research project whose publication, Women Writers Online, is a scholarly digital …
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Images from the Past: The InscriptiFAct Project of the University of Southern California's West Semitic Research Project
Bruce Zuckerman
Project Director and Associate Professor
West Semitic Research and InscriptiFact Projects and University of Southern California
Marilyn Lundberg
Associate Director
West Semitic Research Project
Leta Hunt
Associate Director and Curator of …
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Images from the Past: The InscriptiFAct Project of the University of Southern California’s West Semitic Research Project
Bruce Zuckerman
Project Director and Associate Professor
West Semitic Research and InscriptiFact Projects and University of Southern California
Marilyn Lundberg
Associate Director
West Semitic Research Project
Leta Hunt
Associate Director and …
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Implementation of the Scholar’s Portal Project
Scott Herrington
Head, Library Instruction/Systems/Technology (LIST)
Arizona State University
Krisellen Maloney
Team Leader,
Digital Library & Information Systems Team
University of Arizona
The Scholars Portal Project is a collaborative effort …
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Implementation of the Scholar's Portal Project
Scott Herrington
Head, Library Instruction/Systems/Technology (LIST)
Arizona State University
Krisellen Maloney
Team Leader,
Digital Library & Information Systems Team
University of Arizona
The Scholars Portal Project is a collaborative effort that …
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The Internet2 Shibboleth Project: An Update
RL Bob Morgan
Senior Technology Architect, Computing and Communications
University of Washington
Shibboleth, a project of Internet2, is developing architectures, policy structures, practical technologies, and an open source implementation to support …
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Interoperability between Information and Learning Environments: Bridging the Gaps: An IMS/CNI White Paper
Clifford Lynch
Executive Director
Coalition for Networked Information
Neil McLean
Director, IMS Australia
Macquarie University, Sydney
In March 2003 IMS Global Learning Consortium and the Coalition for Networked Information formed a working alliance …
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Keeping the Learning in Learning Objects
Vicki Suter
Director, NLII Projects
EDUCAUSE
This briefing will highlight the work of two NLII-sponsored groups--the Learning Objects Work Group and the Learning Objects Virtual Community of Practice--and a focus session on learning objects …
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Knowledge Lost in Information: Report of the NSF Workshop on Digital Library Research Directions
Ronald L. Larsen
Dean and Professor
University of Pittsburgh
Donald Waters
Program Officer for Scholarly Communications
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
J. Downie
Assistant Professor
University of Illnois at Urbana-Champaign
Digital libraries are …
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Learning Objects, Learning Activities (LOLA): A Collaborative Referatory for Information Literacy Modules and Other Discipline-Specific Materials
Michael Roy
Director of Academic Computing Services
Wesleyan University
Barbara Jones
Caleb T. Winchester University Librarian
Wesleyan University
We have designed a learning object referatory that contains information literacy modules developed as …
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Legal Alternatives for Online Music Distribution
Steve Worona
Director of Policy and Networking Programs
EDUCAUSE
The Joint Committee of the Higher Education and Entertainment Communities was formed in December 2002, to address problems arising from the perceived high volume of unauthorized …
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Libraries and Digital Scholarship: From Vision to Transformation
Ann M. Lally
Head, Digital Initiatives
University of Washington
Eileen Llona
International Studies Computer Services Librarian
University of Washington
In March 2003 the University of Washington Libraries invited faculty, administrators, and others …
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Libraries and the Enhancement of E-learning
Patricia Albanese
CIO & Director of LITS
Mt. Holyoke College
Neil McLean
Director, IMS Australia
Macquarie University, Sydney
Patricia Stevens
Director, Cooperative Initiatives
OCLC, Inc.
E-learning's influence in higher education grows each …
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Managing and Archiving Learning Management Systems Course Materials and Records
Jeremy Rowe
Director, Research, Strategic Planning and Policy
Arizona State University
Rob Spindler
University Archivist and Head,
Department of Archives and Manuscripts
Arizona State University
Thomas Rosko
Head, Institute Archives and Special …
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Music Information Retrieval/Music Digital Library Evaluation Project
J. Stephen Downie
Assistant Professor
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
This research project is designed to enhance the significant work being done by the Music Information Retrieval (MIR) and Music Digital Library (MDL) research communities …
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The Natural Resources Digital Library: Needs, Partners, and Challenges
Janine Salwasser
Natural Resources Consultant
Oregon State University
Bonnie Avery
Natural Resources Librarian
Oregon State University
Janet Webster
Associate Professor, Head Librarian-Guin Library
Oregon State University
In the year 2000 the …
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The New Frontier of Institutional Repositories: Three Different Libraries, Three Different Plans, One Common Goal
Robert H. McDonald
Assistant Director of Libraries
Florida State University
Tyler Walters
Associate Director
Georgia Institute of Technology
Anthony Smith
Systems Librarian
University of Tennessee
This panel discussion brings together …
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The New York Public Library Digital Gallery: An Open Source Approach Using XML and the Lucene Search Engine API
John Parsons
Technical Project Manager
New York Public Library
David Dodson
Web Developer
New York Public Library
The New York Public Library's Digital Library Program is nearing the end of a long-term initiative to digitize and index hundreds of …
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Persistent Identifiers
John Kunze
Preservation Technologies Architect
California Digital Library
This project briefing focuses on how to move library community discussion forward on the creation and maintenance of durable links to information objects. It will solicit ideas, …
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Power to the People: The IUB Libraries’ Digital Asset Management System
Phyllis H. Davidson
Director of Information Technology
Indiana University
Doug Ryner
IUB Libraries Web Administrator
Indiana University
The Indiana University Bloomington Libraries Web site evolved over a period of several years, from a few pages of …
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ProQuest Dissertations Publishing On-line Submission Program
Bill Savage
Director, Dissertations Publishing
UMI Dissertations Publishing
Timothy Brace
Senior Systems Analyst
University of Texas at Austin
ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, in conjunction with the Berkeley Electronic Press, has developed a …
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Public and Distributed Scholarship in an Age of Wires and Empires
David Silver
Assistant Professor
University of Washington
In 1996, the Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies, a not-for-profit online center devoted to mapping the then-emerging academic field of digital culture, was established. This presentation …
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Research in Seeking Copyright Permission for Open Access
Denise Troll Covey
Associate University Librarian for Arts, Archives, and Technology
Carnegie Mellon University
Although 95 percent of the books ever published are still in copyright, only 3 percent of them are still in print, which means that 92 …
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ResearchChannel Video Content
Jim DeRoest
Director, Streaming Media Technologies, ResearchChannel
University of Washington
Amy Philipson
Executive Director, Research Channel
University of Washington
ResearchChannel is a consortium of the world's leading research institutions and …
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The Shibboleth Library Administrators’ Tool
Jennifer Vine
User Interface Designer
Stanford University
RL Bob Morgan
Senior Technology Architect, Computing and Communications
University of Washington
The Shibboleth Project will be developing tools for librarians and other administrators to …
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Sustainability of Digital Asset Programs and Services: Business Planning by Cultural Heritage Organizations
Nancy Allen
Dean & Director, Penrose Library
University of Denver
This project briefing will address strategies for the sustainability of the many digital asset management programs now being undertaken by cultural heritage institutions. It will …
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A Tale of Two Archives
Priscilla Caplan
Assistant Director for Digital Library Services
Florida Center for Library Automation
Jerry Persons
Information Architect
Stanford University
The Florida Center for Library Automation (FCLA) and Stanford University are both …
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The Transformative Assessment Program (TAP): Next Steps
Vicki Suter
NLII Project Coordinator
EDUCAUSE
Joan Lippincott
Associate Executive Director
Coalition for Networked Information
The EDUCAUSE NLII, CNI, and the Flashlight Program of the TLT Group have collaborated on the Transformative Assessment …
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The Ugly World of Viruses and Worms: The CIO Perspective
Gary Augustson
Vice Provost for Information Technology
Pennsylvania State University
Philip Long
Director, ITS and University CIO
Yale University
Ronald Johnson
Vice President, Computing and Communications and Vice Provost
University of …
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The Video on Demand Project: A New Tool for Journalism Students and Faculty
Kim Sheehan
Assistant Professor
University of Oregon
Deborah Carver
University Librarian
University of Oregon
The migration from traditional paper-based analog technologies to the digital world has revolutionized journalism and journalism and …
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Why Research Libraries? Building Local Web-Based Collections: LOCKSS in Production
Vicky Reich
Director of LOCKSS Program
Stanford University
David Rosenthal
Distinguished Engineer and Chief Scientist, LOCKSS Program
Sun Microsystems
For those who believe local collections are key to the future viability of research libraries, …
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