Peter Murray
Assistant to the Director for Technology Initiatives
University of Connecticut
As scholars and researchers demand greater electronic access to cultural heritage and geospatial resources, the need for an efficient open standard that presents …
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Project Briefings Presented at the
CNI Fall 2004 Membership Meeting
December 6-7, 2004
Portland, OR
Almagest Open Source Software: A Teaching Tool for the Scholarly Community
Janet Temos
Director, Education Technologies Center
OIT Academic Services
Princeton University
Serge J. Goldstein
Director of Academic Services
Princeton University
Almagest is a relational database for the storage, cataloging and display of images, …
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Archiving the Political Web: Prospects and Challenges
Bernard F. Reilly
President
Center for Research Libraries
In the past decade the Web has emerged as a vital medium of political communication, serving political activists, parties, popular fronts, and other non-governmental organizations (NGOs) as a …
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ARL Endorses Digitization as an Acceptable Preservation Reformatting Option
William A. Gosling
ARL Preservation Committee
University Librarian
University of Michigan
Sherry Byrne
Preservation Librarian
University of Chicago
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has endorsed digitization as an accepted preservation …
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Automatic Exposure – Capturing Technical Metadata for Digital Still Images
Günter Waibel
Program Officer
RLG, Inc.
This RLG-led initiative seeks to minimize the cost of technical metadata acquisition and maximize the cultural heritage community's capability of ensuring long-term access to digital assets. The goal of the …
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Bibliographic Data Management Software for Every Student: Embedding a Researcher’s Tool In the CMS
Brian Nielsen
Manager, Learning Support Systems
Northwestern University
To highlight the availability of a new Web-based bibliographic database management application, Northwestern University has developed software to enable access to the tool within …
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Capture to Creation: How High-Resolution Capture and Network-Based Presentation Redefine and Recreate Original Artifacts
Harlan Wallach
Media Services Architect
Academic Technologies
Northwestern University
This presentation explores digital archive issues associated with two on-line archive projects completed by Northwestern University. It examines how the subjects were …
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DARE: The Next Stage
Leo Waaijers
Platform Manager, ICT and Research
SURF Foundation
The Digital Academic Repositories (DARE) is a joint initiative by the Dutch universities, which facilitates digital access to the results of their research. Now that all DARE repositories …
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Digital Preservation: From Theory toward Practice
Richard Fyffe
Assistant Dean of Libraries for Scholarly Communication
University of Kansas
Beth Forrest Warner
Assistant Vice Provost for Information Services
University of Kansas
Deborah Ludwig
Director, Academic Systems
University of …
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DigitalWell: Digital Asset Managment for Institutions, Television and Radio
Jim DeRoest
Director, Streaming Media Technologies
University of Washington
DigitalWell streamlines encoding, management and distribution of high quality audio and video, opening up new opportunities for the learning, research and broadcast communities. …
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DSpace/SRB Integration
Luc Declerck
Associate University Librarian
Technology and Technical Services
University of California, San Diego
Chris Frymann
Digital Library Architect
University of California, San Diego
DSpace is a digital repository software system designed to …
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Enhancing DPubS: Open Source Software for Electronic Publishing
Nancy Eaton
Dean of Libraries
Pennsylvania State University
H. Thomas Hickerson
Associate University Librarian
Cornell University
Cornell University Library and Pennsylvania State University Libraries and Press have embarked on a project to …
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Exposing Art: Accomplishments and Challenges Associated with Metasearching Into and Out of ARTstor
James Shulman
Executive Director
ARTstor
William W. Ying
Chief Technology Officer
ARTstor
ARTstor, a non-profit initiative created by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, was launched as a live service on July 1, 2004. ARTstor’s Digital Library provides …
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Going ‘On-Web’: Google, Yahoo, Open WorldCat and Library Services
Lorcan Dempsey
Vice President of Research
OCLC, Inc.
Chip Nilges
Executive Director, WorldCat Content & Global Access
OCLC, Inc.
For many, Google and other search engines have become the first and last resort of research. If something is not …
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How Faculty Members Work: Exploring Faculty Needs for an Institutional Repository
David Lindahl
Web Initiatives Manager
University of Rochester
Nancy Foster
Information Analyst, Digital Initiatives
University of Rochester
This session is based on a recent IMLS-funded study of faculty members at the University of Rochester, and on …
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An Innovative Approach to ICT Literacy Assessment
Gordon Smith
Director, Systemwide Library Initiatives
California State University
David Williamson
Research Scientist
Educational Testing Service
This project briefing will describe a new national initiative to assess student information and …
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Integrating Libraries into Course Management Software
Charles E. Dye
Director of Information Technology
Indiana University/Purdue University, Indianapolis
Gretchen Hanson
Systems Librarian
University of Maryland
John Eiszner
Lead Programmer
Indiana University/Purdue University, …
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A Demand-Side View of the Future of Library Collections
David W. Lewis
Dean of the IUPUI University Library
Indiana University/Purdue University, Indianapolis
For some time it has been clear that the role of libraries will change in light of developments in networked information. The discussion to date has …
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Internet2 Middleware Developments
Nathan Dors
Project Lead, Security Middleware Unit
University of Washington / Internet2
Federated authentication based on Internet2 community-developed Shibboleth technology is being used increasingly by universities, software vendors, and content …
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Is Stuff Safe Yet? Publisher Cooperation, Collection Expansion, Technology Development, Community Sustainability
Vicky Reich
Director of LOCKSS Program
Stanford University
David S.H. Rosenthal
Chief Scientist, LOCKSS Program
Stanford University
The LOCKSS Program allows libraries to reclaim their role in society as a memory organization. Libraries can choose to …
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Learning from the Commons: Experiments in Collaboration and Transformation
Crit Stuart
Associate Director for Public Services
Georgia Institute of Technology
Julia Zimmerman
Dean of Universities Libraries
Ohio University
Although library commons are designed to enhance student learning, there are significant opportunities …
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Learning Spaces: Collaborations and Opportunities
Joan K. Lippincott
Associate Executive Director
Coalition for Networked Information
Many higher education institutions are developing technology-rich learning spaces such as information commons, multi-media studios, student unions, computer labs, and …
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Managing the Rhizome: METS for Web-Archiving
Leslie Myrick
Digital Library Programmer/Analyst
New York University
With its quirks of definition and structure, its panoply of associated MIMETypes, and the volatility and ephemerality of its content, a website is arguably one of the most complex (and …
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The MetaArchive of Southern Digital Culture: Building a Collaborative Digital Preservation Network
Robert H. McDonald
Assistant Director of Libraries
Florida State University
Martin Halbert
Director for Library Systems
Emory University
Lizabeth Nicol
Information Technology Specialist,
Digital Projects
Auburn University
Victoria Reich
Director …
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Metadata for Digital Preservation: A Status Report on PREMIS
Priscilla Caplan
Assistant Director for Digital Library Services
State University System of Florida
Nancy J. Hoebelheinrich
Metadata Coordinator
Stanford University
In 2003 OCLC and RLG established PREMIS (Preservation Metadata: Implementation …
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New Developments in Digital Libraries
Carol Hixson
Head, Metadata and Digital Library Services
University of Oregon
Kenning Arlitsch
Head of Information Technology
University of Utah
Eileen M. Llona
International Studies Computer Services Librarian
University of Washington
Western …
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Sakai Update
Suzanne Thorin
Dean of University Libraries
Indiana University
James L. Hilton
Associate Provost for Academic
University of Michigan
In its first eleven months, the Sakai Project has delivered a 1.0 production quality Collaboration and Learning …
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Status of Volume Book Scanning
Brewster Kahle
President
Internet Archive
Last spring, Brewster Kahle received the Paul Evan Peters award on behalf of the work of the Internet Archive. In his speech he outlined an approach that might be used to digitize a 300 page book for $10. This …
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Unimpeded Discovery of Digital Content
Günter Waibel
Program Officer
RLG, Inc.
Blaise Aguera y Arcas
Chief Technology Officer
Sand Codex, LLC
In systems that support discovery of digital objects, we typically find that it can be difficult to understand and navigate large results, and …
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Unlocking Literary Texts with the NITLE Semantic Engine
Maciej Ceglowski
Lead Developer
National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education
The NITLE Semantic Engine (NSE) is an ambitious effort to make advanced search technologies available and useful to the academic community as open-source software. …
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An Update from the OAI
Herbert Van de Sompel
Technical Staff Member, Research Library
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Carl Lagoze
Senior Research Associate, Information Science Program
Director of Technology, National Science Digital Library Program
Cornell …
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An Update from the OAI: Discussion Session
Herbert Van de Sompel
Technical Staff Member, Research Library
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Carl Lagoze
Senior Research Associate, Information Science Program
Director of Technology, National Science Digital Library Program
Cornell …
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UTOPIA: The University of Texas Portal and Institutional Repository
Fred M. Heath
Vice Provost and Director of Libraries
University of Texas at Austin
Daniel A. Updegrove
Vice President for Information Technology
University of Texas at Austin
UTOPIA is the University of Texas portal and institutional repository. …
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The Vanderbilt Television News Archive: A Progress Report
Marshall Breeding
Library Technology Officer
Vanderbilt University
The Vanderbilt Television News Archive, the world’s most extensive and comprehensive collection of U.S. national television news programming, continues a major transformation. Its …
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The Virtual Data Center
Micah Altman
Associate Director, Harvard-MIT Data Center
Harvard University
The Virtual Data Center (VDC) provides a complete, open-source, digital library system for the management, dissemination, exchange, and citation of virtual collections of …
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