Digital Libraries

Project Briefings & Plenary Sessions from CNI Meetings

Building “Full-Stack” Collaboration on a Digital Foundation: ‘Explore Chicago Collections’ and the Chicago Collections Consortium (March '16)

Scott Walter, DePaul University
Sarah M. Pritchard, Northwestern University
Charles Blair, University of Chicago
Tracy J. Seneca, University of Illinois at Chicago

Open Parks Network: The Next Century of Digital Information Stewardship for the National Park Service (March '16)

Christopher G. Vinson, Clemson University

Runaway Slave Advertisements: One Vision, Two Approaches (March '16)

Tim Bucknall, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Jason Kovari, Cornell University

3D Scanning for Small Budgets: How Local Libraries and Museums Will Play a Role in Creating a 3D Digital Library (November '15)

Jennifer Johnson, Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis
JD Schaumberg, Online Resources, Inc.

National Digital Stewardship Alliance on the Move (November '15)

Bethany Nowviskie, Council on Library and Information Resources
Micah Altman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Abigail Potter, Library of Congress
Robin Ruggaber, University of Virginia
Oliver Bendorf, Digital Library Federation

Portland Common Data Model: Creating and Sharing Complex Digital Objects (November '15)

Karen Estlund, Pennsylvania State University
Declan Fleming, University of California, San Diego
Mark Matienzo, Digital Public Library of America
Jon Stroop, Princeton University

Rightsstatements.org: An International, Interoperable Approach to Standardized Rights Statements for Cultural Heritage (November '15)

Emily Gore, Digital Public Library of America
Greg Cram, New York Public Library
Dave Hansen, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Mark Matienzo, Digital Public Library of America

Less Code, More Product: Leveraging Open Source Technologies to Develop Digital Library Collections (April '15)

Robert Cartolano, Columbia University
Stephen Davis, Columbia University
Carole Ann Fabian, Columbia University

The DeLiVerMATH Project: Towards Virtual Research Environments in Mathematics (December '14)

Peter Loewe, German National Library of Science and Technology
Silke Rehme, FIZ Karlsruhe Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure

Developing a 21st Century Global Digital Mathematics Library for Research (December '14)

Clifford Lynch, Coalition for Networked Information
Patrick Ion, American Mathematical Society
Timothy W. Cole, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Developments in Digital Repositories (December '14)

Tracy Seneca, University of Illinois at Chicago
Charles Blair, University of Chicago
Glen Robson, National Library of Wales

Rights & Access Challenges for Large Scale Collections, Aggregators, and Repositories (December '14)

Elaine Westbrooks, University of Michigan
Kevin Smith, Duke University
Emily Gore, Digital Public Library of America
Debra Kurtz, University of Texas at Austin

Local Participation in the Digital Public Library of America (March '14)

Chelcie Juliet Rowell, Wake Forest University
Chris Freeland, Washington University in St. Louis

Barn Raising in a Virtual World, or How Innovative Approaches in Funding Led to an Architecture We Can All Use (November '13)

Allan Bell, University of British Columbia
Alex Garnett, Simon Fraser University
Carla Graebner, Simon Fraser University
Geoff Harder, University of Alberta

Databrary: An Open Video-Based Data-Sharing System for Developmental Science (November '13)

Dylan Simon, New York University
Rick Gilmore, Pennsylvania State University
David Millman, New York University

Developments in Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) (November '13)

Martin Halbert, University of North Texas
Gail McMillan, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Matt Schultz, Educopia Institute, MetaArchive Cooperative
Austin McLean, ProQuest

Digital Public Library of America: Present and Future (November '13)

Dan Cohen, Digital Public Library of America

E-book Strategies: What We Heard at the CNI Executive Roundtable (November '13)

Clifford A. Lynch, Coalition for Networked Information

HathiTrust Research Center: Improving Scholarly Inquiry (November '13)

Timothy W. Cole, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Harriett Green, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Update From Federal Funding Agencies (November '13)

Robert Horton, Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)
Kathleen Williams, National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
Joel Wurl, National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)

Chinese Canadian Stories: Uncommon Histories from a Common Past (March '13)

Allan Bell, University of British Columbia

Leveraging Traditional, Digital, and Crowd-Sourced Resources to Create “Database of the Smokies” (March '13)

Anne Bridges, University of Tennessee
Mark Baggett, University of Tennessee
Ken Wise, University of Tennessee

Leveraging Traditional, Digital, and Crowd-Sourced Resources to Create "Database of the Smokies" (March '13)

Anne Bridges, University of Tennessee
Mark Baggett, University of Tennessee
Ken Wise, University of Tennessee

Managing Large-Scale Library Digitization Projects Via the Cloud (March '13)

Timothy Logan, Baylor University
Darryl Stuhr, Baylor University

Publication and Research Roles for Libraries Using Spectral Imaging Data (March '13)

Todd Grappone, University of California, Los Angeles
Stephen Davison, University of California, Los Angeles

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Building an Archival Identity Management Network: Transforming Archival Practice and Historical Research (December '12)

Daniel Pitti, University of Virginia
Brian Tingle, California Digital Library
Clifford Lynch, Coalition for Networked Information

Collaborative Statewide Networked Information Content: Case Study in the Development and Operation of the Portal to Texas History (December '12)

Martin Halbert, University of North Texas
Helen Agüera, National Endowment for the Humanities
Mark Phillips, University of North Texas
Brenda Gunn, University of Texas at Austin

Debunking Myths and Establishing Guidelines for the ETD Lifecycle (December '12)

Martin Halbert, University of North Texas
Katherine Skinner, Educopia Institute, MetaArchive Cooperative
Matt Schultz, Educopia Institute, MetaArchive Cooperative
Gail McMillan, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Developing a Customized, Extensible Application for Digital Collections (December '12)

Suzanne Thorin, Syracuse University
Sean Quimby, Syracuse University
Jeremy Morgan, Syracuse University

Doing Data Together: BWR, Shared Shelf, and CONA (December '12)

Carole Ann Fabian, Columbia University
James Shulman, ARTstor
Bill Ying, ARTstor

Extending Access to Scholarly Resources: JSTOR’s Alumni Program (December '12)

Bruce Heterick, JSTOR
Susan Gibbons, Yale University
Damon Jaggars, Columbia University
Molly Tamarkin, Duke University

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Innovation and the Law: An Analysis of the Barriers and Benefits of Text Mining (December '12)

Torsten Reimer, JISC

Leveraging Digital Library Infrastructure to Support New Roles of the 21st Century Research Library (December '12)

Mark Phillips, University of North Texas
Declan Fleming, University of California, San Diego
Lois Widmer, University of Florida

Olive: An Executable Content Archive Underway (December '12)

Gloriana St. Clair, Carnegie Mellon University
Daniel Ryan, Carnegie Mellon University

Piloting Linked Data to Connect Library and Archive Resources to the New World of Data, and Staff to New Skills (December '12)

Zheng (John) Wang, Emory University
Laura Akerman, Emory University

Trends and Priorities: Briefing from Federal Funding Agencies (December '12)

Amy Friedlander, National Science Foundation
Robert Horton, Institute of Museum and Library Services
Kathleen Williams, National Historic Records and Publications Commission
Joel Wurl, National Endowment for the Humanities

UCLA Broadcast News Archive (December '12)

Todd Grappone, University of California, Los Angeles
Sharon E. Farb, University of California, Los Angeles

What To Do with All of those Hard Drives: Data Mining at Duke (December '12)

Joel Herndon, Duke University
Molly Tamarkin, Duke University

Wikipedia and Libraries: What’s the Connection? (December '12)

Merrilee Proffitt, OCLC Research
Sara Snyder, Smithsonian Institution

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Archiving Large Swaths of User-Contributed Digital Content: Lessons from Archiving the Occupy Movement (March '12)

Howard Besser, New York University
David Millman, New York University
Sharon M. Leon, George Mason University
Kristine Hanna, Internet Archive

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Building the Grateful Dead Archive Online: The Golden Road to Unlimited Devotion (March '12)

Virginia Steel, University of California, Santa Cruz
Robin Chandler, University of California, Santa Cruz

Competing Priorities: Sustainability, Growth, and Innovation in Digital Collections (March '12)

Jenn Riley, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The Digital Public Library of America Platform (March '12)

David Weinberger, Harvard University
Paul Deschner, Harvard University

JSTOR: Exploring New Economic Models and Markets for Scholarly Content (March '12)

Heidi McGregor, ITHAKA

Opportunities and Challenges for the 21st Century Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) (March '12)

James Jacobs, Stanford University
Suzanne Sears, University of North Texas
David Walls, United States Government Printing Office

retroReveal.org: An Open-Source Process for the Discovery and Recovery of Lost or Obscured Content (March '12)

Joyce L. Ogburn, University of Utah
Kenning Arlitsch, University of Utah
Harold M. Erickson, University of Utah

Taking Ownership of Electronic Journals and Books (March '12)

Alan Darnell, University of Toronto

Under the Blacklight: Open Source Content Management for Collaborative Digitization Projects Involving Mass Digitization of Archival Materials (March '12)

Eric C. Weig, University of Kentucky

The United States End-of-Term Web Archive (March '12)

Abbie Grotke, Library of Congress
Kathleen Murray, University of North Texas

Cost Forecasting Model for New Digitization Projects (December '11)

Karim Boughida, George Washington University
Linda Colet, George Washington University
Martha Whittaker, George Washington University
Dan Chudnov, George Washington University

Europeana Libraries: Establishing THE Library Aggregator for Europe (December '11)

Wouter Schallier, LIBER (Association of European Research Libraries)

Exhibit 3.0: The New and Improved Linked Data Publishing Platform (December '11)

MacKenzie Smith, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

HathiTrust: Reviewing Goals, Accomplishments, and Opportunities for Collective Action (December '11)

Jeremy York, HathiTrust

Ideas that Drive Technology Innovation: Perspectives from Two Institutions (December '11)

Dean Krafft, Cornell University
Beth Sandore Namachchivaya, University of Illinois

IMLS Funding Opportunities and Updates: 2012 (December '11)

Chuck Thomas, Institute of Museum and Library Services

Progress in Access Technologies (December '11)

Edward Luczak, US National Library of Medicine, NIH
Jennifer L. Marill, US National Library of Medicine, NIH
Paul Joseph, University of British Columbia
Bronwen Sprout, University of British Columbia

Trends in Publishing (December '11)

Julie Speer, Georgia Institute of Technology
Allyson Mower, University of Utah
Sylvia K. Miller, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Understanding Use of Networked Information Content: MINES for Libraries® Implementations at Scholars Portal (December '11)

Dana Thomas, Ontario Council of University Libraries
Alan Darnell, Ontario Council of University Libraries
Terry Plum, Simmons College
Martha Kyrillidou, Association of Research Libraries

Minnesota Digital Library and HathiTrust Prototype an Image Preservation Archive (April '11)

John Butler, University of Minnesota
John Weise, University of Michigan
Eric Celeste, Minnesota Digital Library

Community Briefing: Next Generation Learning Challenges (December '10)

Ira Fuchs, EDUCAUSE

Anne Karle-Zenith, University of Michigan
M. Claire Stewart, Northwestern University
David Lowe, University of Connecticut

Collaboration Between Mathematical Modeling at Stanford and Discovery of Digital Content at the Library of Congress (April '10)

Jane Mandelbaum, Library of Congress
Margot Gerritsen, Stanford University

Digital Libraries and Long-term Access for the Rest of Us: The University of Alabama Acumen Experience (April '10)

Tom Wilson, University of Alabama
Jody DeRidder, University of Alabama
Tonio Loewald, University of Alabama

Turning Curators into Web Publishers: Expanding the Digital Library Program Within the Institution (April '10)

Stephen P. Davis, Columbia University
Janet Gertz, Columbia University
Joanna DiPasquale, Columbia University

Crisis, Tragedy and Recovery Network (December '09)

Kristine Hanna, Internet Archive
Paul A. Soderdahl, University of Iowa
Edward A. Fox, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Ben Shneiderman, University of Maryland

Digital Content Strategy Development (December '09)

Mike Handy, Library of Congress
Rebecca Graham, Harvard University
Tracey Robinson, Harvard University
Joshua Greenberg, New York Public Library
Stephen Short, Library of Congress
Sabrina Thomas, Library of Congress
Anton Pierce, Library of Congress
Joseph Pagano, Library of Congress

Everything Old Is New Again: Newspapers and Auction Catalogs in the Age of Web 2.0 (December '09)

Keith Jeffers, National Library of Australia
Lesley Goodwin, JSTOR

Feasibility of a Primarily Digital Research Library (December '09)

Lisa Spiro, Rice University
Geneva Henry, Rice University

Geographic Tools & Digital Collections (December '09)

Natasha Smith, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Richard Szary, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Scott Eldredge, Brigham Young University

Cultivating Collaboration: Lessons Learned from DLF Aquifer (April '09)

Katherine Kott, Digital Library Federation & Stanford University

A Prototype for Including Archeological Excavation Data in a Digital Library (April '09)

Thornton L. Staples, Fedora Commons, Inc.

ALADIN Research Commons: A Consortial Institutional Repository (April '06)

Joan Cheverie, Georgetown University
Claire T. Dygert, American University
Bruce Hulse, Washington Research Library Consortium

AstroCat: A Web-based Interactive Astronomical Catalog (April '06)

Stefan Dreizler, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Ralf Stockmann, Goettingen State and University Library

Building a Digital Library of the Middle East: Report from a Workshop Held in Alexandria, Egypt, January 15-17, 2006 (April '06)

Stephen Griffin, National Science Foundation
Joan K. Lippincott, Coalition for Networked Information
Joyce Ray, Institute of Museum and Library Services
Donald J. Waters, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Designing Digital Preservation Repository Services at Stanford: Practical Theory for Practical Services (April '06)

Keith Johnson, Stanford University

Embracing the (De)contextualization of Digital Artifacts (April '06)

Barbara Taranto, The New York Public Library

IMLS Update: Programs, Initiatives, Projects (April '06)

Martha Crawley, Institute of Museum and Library Services
Dan Lukash, Institute of Museum and Library Services
Barbara Smith, Institute of Museum and Library Services

Implementing Institutional Repositories (April '06)

Ronald Jantz, Rutgers University
Nicholas Fischio, Case Western Reserve University
Nathan Lambert, Case Western Reserve University

In-House Digitization: The National Digital Newspaper Program at the University of Kentucky (April '06)

Eric Weig, University of Kentucky
J. Wendel Cox, University of Kentucky

Letting Faculty Drive the Digital Program (April '06)

Tom Ruthven, University of Miami

The Melvyl Recommender Project: Early Results and Open Questions (April '06)

Colleen Whitney, California Digital Library
Peter Brantley, California Digital Library

MIT’s SIMILE Project: Demonstrating Practical Value of Semantic Web Technologies for Digital Libraries (April '06)

MacKenzie Smith, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Open Source Tools and Metasearch Findings of the Emory MetaCombine Project (April '06)

Martin Halbert, Emory University

A Very Large Scale Library for the History of the Web (April '06)

William Y. Arms, Cornell University

Work of the Section 108 Study Group (April '06)

Laura N. Gasaway, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

The British Library Digital Object Management Program (December '05)

Sean Martin, British Library

The bX Project: Federating and Mining Usage Logs from Linking Servers (December '05)

Johan Bollen, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Oren Beit-Arie, Ex Libris
Herbert Van de Sompel, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Library/Museum Collaboration in Detroit: A Summary of Three-Dimensional Artifact Digitization Projects in the Detroit Metropolitan Region (December '05)

Jeffrey Trzeciak, Wayne State University
Matthew Martin, Wayne State University
Shawn McCann, Wayne State University

The Open Content Alliance: Progress Report (December '05)

Brewster Kahle, Internet Archive

The Portal to Texas History: Harnessing Technology to Enable Collaboration with Small Museums and Libraries (December '05)

Cathy Nelson Hartman, University of North Texas
Mark Edward Phillips, University of North Texas

The Aquifer Digital Library Initiative of the Digital Library Federation: Project Update (April '05)

Katherine Kott, Digital Library Federation

Closing the Gap: The Fedora Project and Small Colleges (April '05)

Eric Jansson, Associated Colleges of the South Technology Center

Creating a Digital Library Services Registry: Two Approaches (April '05)

Jeremy Frumkin, Oregon State University
Ann Apps, University of Manchester
Amanda Hill, University of Manchester

Digital Library Building Blocks: Empowering Libraries in an Increasingly Competitive Online Information Space (April '05)

Daniel Greenstein, University of California
Peter Brantley, California Digital Library

The Institute of Museum & Library Services (IMLS): 2005 Update (April '05)

Joyce Ray, Institute of Museum and Library Services
Martha Crawley, Institute of Museum and Library Services
Barbara G. Smith, Institute of Museum and Library Services
Dan Lukash, Institute of Museum and Library Services
Marsha Semmel, Institute of Museum and Library Services

Integrating Libraries and Electronic Publishing: The DART Project (April '05)

David Millman, Columbia University
Kate Wittenberg, Columbia University

The Knowledge Exchange: A Major New European Cooperative Project (April '05)

Bas Cordewener, SURF Foundation
Sigrun Eckelmann, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
Norman Wiseman, Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)

LibQUAL™, Libraries and Google™: What Do We Know About the Use Patterns Of Our Faculty, Graduate Students and Undergraduates? (April '05)

Martha Kyrillidou, Association of Research Libraries (ARL)
Jonathan D. Sousa, Association of Research Libraries (ARL)
Fred M. Heath, University of Texas at Austin

A System-Wide View of Library Collections (April '05)

Roger C. Schonfeld, Ithaka
Brian Lavoie, Online Computer Library Center (OCLC)

Trove.net™ and Other Ways to Get Images Out of the Database and Into the Classroom (April '05)

Ricky Erway, Research Libraries Group (RLG)

Capture to Creation: How High-Resolution Capture and Network-Based Presentation Redefine and Recreate Original Artifacts (December '04)

Harlan Wallach, Northwestern University

Exposing Art: Accomplishments and Challenges Associated with Metasearching Into and Out of ARTstor (December '04)

James Shulman, ARTstor
Bill Ying, ARTstor

A Demand-Side View of the Future of Library Collections (December '04)

David W. Lewis, Indiana University/Purdue University, Indianapolis

Is Stuff Safe Yet? Publisher Cooperation, Collection Expansion, Technology Development, Community Sustainability (December '04)

Victoria Reich, Stanford University
David S.H. Rosenthal, Stanford University

New Developments in Digital Libraries (December '04)

Carol Hixson, University of Oregon
Kenning Arlitsch, University of Utah
Eileen M. Llona, University of Washington

Sakai Update (December '04)

Suzanne Thorin, Indiana University
James L. Hilton, University of Michigan

Status of Volume Book Scanning (December '04)

Brewster Kahle, Internet Archive

The Vanderbilt Television News Archive: A Progress Report (December '04)

Marshall Breeding, Vanderbilt University

The Virtual Data Center (December '04)

Micah Altman, Harvard-MIT Data Center

Capturing Caribbean Life and Culture: New Digital Resources at the University of Miami Library (April '04)

Jeff Barry, University of Miami

Digital Libraries & Virtual Museums Ten Years After (the First Web Browsers) and Into the Future (April '04)

Kati Geber, Canadian Heritage Information Network
Joyce Ray, Institute of Museum and Library Services

Digital Library Repositories and Instructional Support Systems (April '04)

Dale Flecker, Harvard University
Leslie L. Johnston, University of Virginia
David Greenbaum, University of California, Berkeley

Integration of Data Grids, Digital Libraries, and Persistent Archives (April '04)

Reagan Moore, San Diego Supercomputer Center

JISC and SURF: An Update on Activities (April '04)

Malcolm Read, Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)
Wim Liebrand, SURF Foundation

Mixed Content and Mixed Metadata in the NSDL (April '04)

William Y. Arms, Cornell University

Moving Image Collections Project (April '04)

Grace Agnew, Rutgers University

Preservation-Worthy Digital Video: Hope You Brought Your Checkbook (April '04)

Jerome McDonough, New York University

The Scholar’s Box: A Tool for Gathering, Creating, and Sharing Reusable Digital Learning and Research Content (April '04)

Raymond Yee, University of California, Berkeley
Peter Brantley, California Digital Library
David Greenbaum, University of California, Berkeley

ARTstor: A Project Update (December '03)

Max Marmor, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Documenting Text Encoding Practices for Academics: The Women Writers Project’s TEI Encoding Guide (December '03)

Julia Flanders, Brown University

Documenting Text Encoding Practices for Academics: The Women Writers Project's TEI Encoding Guide (December '03)

Julia Flanders, Brown University

Images from the Past: The InscriptiFAct Project of the University of Southern California’s West Semitic Research Project (December '03)

Bruce Zuckerman, University of Southern California
Marilyn Lundberg, West Semitic Research Project
Leta Hunt, University of Southern California

Images from the Past: The InscriptiFAct Project of the University of Southern California's West Semitic Research Project (December '03)

Bruce Zuckerman, University of Southern California
Marilyn Lundberg, West Semitic Research Project
Leta Hunt, University of Southern California

Knowledge Lost in Information: Report of the NSF Workshop on Digital Library Research Directions (December '03)

Ronald L. Larsen, University of Pittsburgh
J. Stephen Downie, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Donald Waters, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Music Information Retrieval/Music Digital Library Evaluation Project (December '03)

J. Stephen Downie, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

The Natural Resources Digital Library: Needs, Partners, and Challenges (December '03)

Janine Salwasser, Oregon State University
Janet Webster, Oregon State University
Bonnie Avery, Oregon State University

The New York Public Library Digital Gallery: An Open Source Approach Using XML and the Lucene Search Engine API (December '03)

John Parsons, New York Public Library
David Dodson, New York Public Library

Power to the People: The IUB Libraries’ Digital Asset Management System (December '03)

Phyllis H. Davidson, Indiana University
Doug Ryner, Indiana University

ResearchChannel Video Content (December '03)

Jim DeRoest, University of Washington
Amy Philipson, University of Washington

Building a Large Digital Collection for Remote Use (December '02)

Barbara Taranto, The New York Public Library, Research Libraries