Digital Libraries-Challenges and Influences (Mischo)
Problem: effective search and discovery of open and hidden digital resources
Goal: design paths and gateways and implementation of federated (universal) mechanism to assist users
Mantra: aggregate, virtually collate and federate
-create a universal an accessible paths to all digital resources remains the holy grail of digital librarianship
-Since early 1990's federal funding to research institutions to research ways to connect scholarly data in a variety of formats to be read and searched via the world wide web.
-Google grew out of this original large scale federal funding grants at Standford
Dewey Meets Turing
1994 National science foundation digital library initiative putting together librarians, computer scientist and publishers
Computer scientist saw the project as potential to blend pure research approaches to everyday information searching and saw the potential for deep impact on society at large and other scientific fields
Librarians saw the project as an opportunity for much needed funds to build and maintain vital research tools access.
Librarians acknowledged that technology was needed to bridge library limited resources and increased abundance of scholarly communications
Web blurred the lines of who became consumers and providers of information
Traditional language and taxonomy of librarians don't always fit (at least currently) in the rough and tumble world of information accessible on the web.
Essential Infrastructure for scholarship in the Digital Age-Lynch
The creation of D-space by MIT: an open source software
Program of management and dissemination of digital materials created by an institution and its community members
Requires an organizational commitment to long term curating of materials and making materials accessible in the future as technology changes and evolves
Potential of institutional repositories is a long term shift by all disciplines at an institution in how they collect, store and disseminate research findings that is not currently addressed in traditional scholarly communication publication paths
Additional difficulties for libraries is the havesting/mining of metadata not just the finished article but also the raw data included in the research
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