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DIGITAL
LIBRARY PROGRAMS
DIGITAL
LIBRARIES COURSE, SPRING 2001
TEXT-ORIENTED COLLECTIONS
First site:
Project Gutenberg:
http://promo.net/pg/
1971- simple
ASCII texts for downloading
(FTP downloads)
now some HTML
search under Carroll, Lewis
Select Alice 1997
for HTML text
(note disclaimer, copyright)
History and philosophy of site:
http://promo.net/pg/history.html
The English server
Formerly Carnegie Mellon University
Now University of Washington
founded 1990; over 30,000 texts; both ASCII &
HTML:
Search Carroll, Lewis or
Jabberwocky
look for suffix .html or .txt
Dubliners .pdf
word search petersburg
http://eserver.org/
The University of Virginia Electronic Text Center:
1992- ; 50,000 items; HTML-style texts:
Texts integrated into library catalog
Sample English / Online holdings / Salem Witch Trials
/ Narratives /
Increase Mather (images) / Burr (text)
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu
Project Bartleby:
http://www.bartleby.com/
HTML; 1993- ; indexed
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
seach holly and ivy
Note Terms of Use
University of Michigan: Humanities Text Initiative
http://www.hti.umich.edu/
Text collections / American verse project
Davidson, Lucretia Maria, 1808-1825 /
Poetical remains of the late Lucretia Maria Davidson
Scroll down to contents list
Amir Khan / go to note
Classical studies:
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/
Scroll down to: Aeschylus. Seven Against Thebes. ed. Herbert Weir Smyth,
Ph. D. (English)
Scroll down to Choral 4
Follow cross-reference
Papyrus: click on word to see meaning, frequency
Note list of funding at foot of opening screen
Women Writers Resource Project:
http://chaucer.library.emory.edu/wwrp/index.html
African American Women Writers of the 19th Century
http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/writers_aa19/
University of Iowa: Virtual Hospital projects:
Virtual Hospital:
http://www.vh.org/
Virtual Children's Hospital:
http://www.vh.org/VCH/
Virtual Naval Hospital:
http://www.vnh.org/
PubMed: Medline on the net:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed
(with links to full-text when available)
Medline Plus (directory approach)
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/
Core Historical Literature of Agriculture:
http://chla.library.cornell.edu/
GUIDES TO TEXT COLLECTIONS:
The University of Virginia Electronic Text Center:
links to other full-text web resources,
e.g. English-language full-text web resources:
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/eng-oth.html
Online Books page (pointers to online books):
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/
IMAGE ORIENTED COLLECTIONS:
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS:
AMERICAN MEMORY:
historical collections, for the National
Digital Library:
FAQ:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/helpdesk/amfaq.html
Note: 2.Will the National Digital Library
Program take the place of traditional libraries?
5.Will the National Digital Library Program digitize all Library of
Congress holdings?
Collections:
http://memory.loc.gov/
Award winners:
LC/Ameritech National Digital Library
competition:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award/online.html#request
Traveling culture: circuit Chatauqua:
American memory project of the University
of Iowa Libraries:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award98/iauhtml/tccchome.html
Search on Poetry
Images of African Americans from the 19th Century
http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/images_aa19/
Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE:
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/
California heritage:
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CalHeritage/
Select item, Click on "Container listing"
The Jack London Collection:
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/London/
The Emma Goldman Papers:
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Goldman/
The Tebtunis Papyri Collection
and the Advanced Papyrological Information
System:
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/APIS/
Digital Scriptorium: images of Renaissance
literature:
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Scriptorium
Shelfmark = "Plimpton MS 281"
View all images
scroll down to Elephant
Digital Gutenberg Bible:
http://www.gutenbergdigital.de/
The Gutenberg Bible : Digitised Images
(Britsh Library)
http://prodigi.bl.uk/gutenbg/default.asp
New York Public Library Digital Library
Collection:
http://digital.nypl.org/
California Digital Library:
http://www.cdlib.org/
Louisiana State University Digital Library:
http://www.lsu.edu/diglib/
ibiblio: Center for the Public Domain and
U. North Carolina, Chapel Hill:
http://www.ibiblio.org/
Images of Kansas City:
http://images.kclibrary.org/
Cleveland Digital Library:
http://web.ulib.csuohio.edu/SpecColl/cdl/
Library of Virginia:
http://www.lva.lib.va.us/dlp/index.htm
Photographs / search by Virginia
Click on number
Click on icon below photograph
to see enlarged image
Colorado Virtual Library:
http://www.aclin.org/
Frontier Photographer: Edward S. Curtis (Smithsonian Institution)
http://www.sil.si.edu/Exhibitions/Curtis/
Documenting the American South
http://docsouth.unc.edu/index.html
Gallica: digital library from France's
National Library:
http://gallica.bnf.fr/
ORAL, MULTIMEDIA COLLECTIONS
National Gallery of the Spoken Word
(Michigan State University with NorthWestern)
http://ngsw.org/
History and Politics Out Loud: a searchable archive of politically
significant audio materials; National Endowment for the Humanities
and Michigan State University
http://www.hpol.org/
Florida Center for Instructional Technology:
A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust:
http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/Holocaust/
Quicktime video of Cleveland Union Terminal
electric engines underway:
http://www.csuohio.edu/CUT/video.htm
OTHER MATERIALS
The Visual Front: posters of the Spanish Civil War
http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/posters/table.html
Aerial Photography Online Flights:
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/AerialPhotos/
Early American paintings in the Worcester Art Museum
http://www.worcesterart.org/Collection/Early_American/
STUDENT PROJECT SITES
Catholic University of America:
Karl Shapiro:
http://slis.cua.edu/dkb/874/shapiro/
Mother Jones
http://slis.cua.edu/dkb/874/jones/
Mary Noble Postcard Collection: Iowa Women's
Archives
http://mingo.info-science.uiowa.edu/Mary_Noble/
COMMERCIAL SITES
netLibrary:
Pioneer; collections of digitized books
for use by members of specific communities
Academic, corporate, public, school libraries
One person at a time can read book(!!)
One page at a time: rapid page turning:
considered printing out, not allowed
http://www.netlibrary.com/
Via consortia: BCR:
http://www.bcr.org/~shoffhin/2000/junnetlib.html
New start-ups:
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/06/circuits/articles/15book.html
Interview with Questia CEO
http://www.infotoday.com/it/feb01/hane.htm
POINTER SITES:
basically indicate information available
on Web,
often have question-answering service;
little locally-mounted content:
US POINTER SITES:
Classic site, created in a Library School
course:
Internet Public Library:
http://www.ipl.org/
Question-answering service:
http://www.ipl.org/ref/QUE
(note the comprehensive question form)
Kentucky Virtual Library:
http://www.kyvl.org/
BRITISH GATEWAY SITES:
Earlweb: ready reference to key information
sources;
maintained by British librarians:
http://www.earl.org.uk/earlweb
Note its question-answering service: Ask
a librarian (UK):
http://www.earl.org.uk/ask/index.html
Note the unusual, technology-oriented:
Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library:
http://www.eevl.ac.uk
ADAM: Art, Design, Architecture and Media
Information Gateway:
http://www.adam.ac.uk
Organizing Medical Networked Information
(OMNI):
http://omni.ac.uk
Social Science Information Gateway:
http://sosig.ac.uk
GUIDES TO DIGITAL LIBRARIES:
Other digital sites (Sunsite, Berkeley):
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Collections/otherimage.html
Research and development in DL field:
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/R+D/
List of Digital Library Federation partners:
http://www.clir.org/diglib/about.htm
Digital Library Net:
http://www.digitallibrary.net/
SOLINET: Links to Other Digital Library Resources:
http://www.solinet.net/monticello/links.htm
Center for the Study of Digital Libraries:
http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/
Search in a major directory, e.g.:
http://www.yahoo.com/Reference/Libraries/Digital_Libraries
http://dir.yahoo.com/Business_and_Economy/Shopping_and_Services/Books/Booksellers/Electronic_Books/
Search "digital library" in a major search
engine, e.g.:
http://www.northernlight.com/
ELECTRONIC JOURNALS FOR THE AREA:
D-lib magazine and forum:
http://www.dlib.org/
British electronic journal on electronic
libraries:
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/
MANUALS ETC.
Building Digital Collections:
Technical Information and Background Papers:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ftpfiles.html
Digital Library Information and Resources:
http://www.canis.uiuc.edu/~bgross/dl/
NYPL: Planning digital projects for historical
collections: brochure
http://digital.nypl.org/brochure/index.html
The University of Virginia Electronic Text Center:
important electronic collection of digital
library standards:
SGML, XML, TEI, EAD, ISO etc.:
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/standard.html
Digital Libraries: Virginia Tech Courseware:
http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~dlib/
Arizona State Library Digital Projects
Guidelines:
http://www.lib.az.us/digital/index.html
PROJECT, ADMINISTRATION
AND CONSORTIUM DOCUMENTATION
NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION:
DIGITAL LIBRARIES INITIATIVE
Phase I, 1994-1998
Six projects funded by NSF, NASA, and DARPA
Digital library research at:
University of California, Berkeley / University of Michigan / University
of Illinois / University of California, Santa Barbara / Stanford
/ Carnegie Mellon University
http://www.dli2.nsf.gov/
Available research:
http://www.dli2.nsf.gov/dlione/
Phase 2, 1998- Selectively build on and extend
research and testbed activities in
promising digital libraries areas; Accelerate development, management
and
accessibility of digital content and collections; Create new capabilities
and
opportunities for digital libraries to serve existing and new user
communities,
including all levels of education; and, Encourage the study of interactions
between
humans and digital libraries in various social and organizational contexts.
Sponsors and announcement:
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/1998/nsf9863/nsf9863.htm
Projects funded:
http://www.dli2.nsf.gov/projects.html
Columbia University:
Description of digital texts program;
supporting documents
(texts password protected)
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/digital/texts/about.html
eLib: Electronic Libraries Programme projects:
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/services/elib/projects/
University of Michigan: Digital Library
Initiatives:
http://henry.ugl.lib.umich.edu/libhome/DLI/
Digital Library Federation
http://www.clir.org/diglib/dlfhomepage.htm
SOLINET: Digital Library Services:
http://www.solinet.net/dls/digital.htm
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