Research on digital libraries encompasses a range of intertwined technical, social and political issues. One of the better descriptions of digital libraries comes from the Santa Fe Workshop on Distributed Knowledge Work Environments. "[T]he concept of a "digital library" is not merely equivalent to a digitized collection with information management tools. It is rather an environment to bring together collections, services, and people in support of the full life cycle of creation, dissemination, use, and preservation of data, information, and knowledge." I have made my selections for this page on the basis of their breadth, depth, ingenuity and availability of content online.
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The Joint DELOS-NSDL Summer School, which will be held in Settignano, Florence, from May 28th to June 1st. The topic of the School is: "Digital Libraries for the Digital Librarian - A journey from Traditional to Digital Libraries".
JCDL 2007 Joint Conference on Digital Libraries will be held in Vancouver, BC from June 17-23, 2007.
Library and Information Science (and Related Areas) Conference and Conference Proceedings by Gillian Westera.
D-Lib Magazine provides articles, news and commentary on advanced research and implementation projects in digital libraries.
Ariadne reports on information service developments, information networking issues worldwide and current digital library initiatives. Ariadne is published every three months.
The Russian Digital Libraries Journal "is the first Russian electronic journal to present up-to-date reflection of research on and use of digital libraries - distributed information systems for creation, storage, analysis, distribution, search and retrieval in various collections of digital documents (text, image, audio, video etc.) via the global networks." The articles are in English or Russian.
The Digital Libraries Initiative Phase Two is a multiagency initiative which seeks to provide leadership in research fundamental to the development of the next generation of digital libraries, to advance the use and usability of globally distributed, networked information resources, and to encourage existing and new communities to focus on innovative applications areas.
Digital libraries research and applications will be jointly supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the National Library of Medicine (NLM), the Library of Congress (LoC), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and others.
The Digital Libraries Initiative Phase One (1994-1998) was comprised of six projects in the joint initiative of the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for digital libraries. These projects are developing the next generation of tools for information discovery, management, retrieval and analysis. A mostly comprehensive list DLI publications and the DLI Workshop Series are online.
The DLI Phase One projects were: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Carnegie-Mellon University, Stanford University, University of California at Berkeley, University of California at Santa Barbara and University of Michigan.
The arXiv.org e-Print archive formerly known as the LANL e-Print archive at xxx.lanl.gov is a fully automated electronic archive and distribution server for research papers. Covered areas include physics and related disciplines, mathematics, nonlinear sciences, computational linguistics, and neuroscience started in 1991.
The Networked Computer Science Technical Reports Library at Cornell University Department of Computer Science. NCSTRL is a distributed technical report library developed by the ARPA-sponsored Computer Science Technical Report Project. "NCSTRL (pronounced "ancestral") is an international collection of computer science technical reports from CS departments and industrial and government research laboratories. The NCSTRL collection is distributed among a set of interoperating servers operated by participating institutions."
The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations is a project which aims to increase the availability of theses and dissertations by placing them online with the content in an accessible form.
The Perseus Project centered at the Department of Classics of Tufts University is a well known and respected collection which focuses upon the ancient Greek and Roman world. Perseus contains texts in Greek and in translation. The major authors of the classical period are represented, as well as some later authors from the fifth century B.C. Perseus also contains images of vases, sculptures and sculptural groups, coins, buildings, as well as color maps of Greece taken from satellite images, annotated with place names.
The Oyez "project provides access to more than 2000 hours of Supreme Court audio. All audio in the Court recorded since 1995 is included in the project. Before 1995, the audio collection is selective. It remains our aim to create a complete and authoritative archive of Supreme Court audio covering the entire span from October 1955 through the most recent release."
The California Digital Library is a combined resources for the University of California. "Complementing the physical libraries on the nine campuses of the University of California system, the CDL focuses on selecting, building, managing, preserving, and providing access to shared collections of high-quality digital materials for the University and its partners." "[It is] designed to be collaboratively maintained by staff across the UC system and to allow a "local view" of available digital resources at the user's choice."
The Corpus of Electronic Texts (CELT), formerly known as Curia, hosted at the University College Cork aims "to bring the wealth of Irish literary and historical culture (in Irish, Latin, Old Norse, Anglo-Norman French, and English) to the Internet in a rigorously scholarly project that is, at the same time, user-friendly for the widest possible range of readers and researchers."
The Interspace is a long term information infrastructure research project which seeks to unify disparate distributed information resources in one coherent model. The Interspace, is a collection of interlinked information spaces where each component space contains the knowledge of a community or a subject domain.
The RYHINER-Project at the University Library of Berne "consists of more than 15,000 maps, charts, plans and views from the 16th to the 18th century, covering the whole globe. Together with the 20,000 manuscript maps of the Public Records Office, the Canton of Berne owns not only a local, but a worldwide geographical memory. Work on this project includes conservation, microfilming and building up a generally accessible catalog."
Project Bartleby from Columbia University reproduces classic literature in hypertext and maintains a strong emphasis on the quality and integrity of the text.
Project Gutenberg is the granfather of literary content on the Net. All works are in plain ASCII and in the public domain. Abacci Books is a combination of the etexts at Project Gutenberg and user reviews from amazon.com.
The Visible Human Project from National Library of Medicine (NLM) produced "a complete, anatomically detailed, three-dimensional representations of the male and female human body. The current phase of the project is collecting transverse CT, MRI and cryosection images of representative male and female cadavers at one millimeter intervals. The long-term goal of the Visible Human Project is to produce a system of knowledge structures that will transparently link visual knowledge forms to symbolic knowledge formats such as the names of body parts."
The American Memory project contains the historical collections for the National Digital Library at the Library of Congress. It contains "multimedia collections of digitized documents, photographs, recorded sound, moving pictures, and text from the Library's Americana collections. There are currently over 40 collections in American Memory."
Digital Libraries a la Carte: New Choices for the Future from the International Summer School on the Digital Library course modules focus on: technological developments relevant to libraries (lectures), Library 2.0 technologies to reach out to the customer (hands-on in a computer room), libraries supporting research and Open Access, libraries and teaching and learning. The courses will be held from August 22-25, at, Tilburg University, the Netherlands.
ECDL 2006 the 10th European Conference On Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries: Towards the European Digital Library will be held September 17-22, 2006 in Alicante, Spain in. Paper submission deadline: March 3, 2006. Acceptance notification: May 15, 2006. Camera-ready version due: June 2, 2006
RCDL2006 The 8th Russian Conference on Digital Libraries: Advanced Methods and Technologies Digital Collections will take place on October 17-19, 2006 in Suzdal in the Vladimir region. Workshop proposals due March 31, 2006. Notification of acceptance June 10, 2006. Submissions of extended abstracts due April 15, 2006. Full text papers due July 10, 2006.
ICDL 2006 The International Conference on Digital Libraries December 5-8, 2006 in cooperation with ACM SIGCHI at the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi. The theme of the proposed conference is Digital Libraries: Information Management for Global Access and it will focus on creation, adoption, implementation and utilization of digital libraries (DL), e-learning and knowledge society.
JCDL 2006 The Joint Conference on Digital Libraries: Opening Information Horizons June 11-15, 2006. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
ICADL 2005 the 8th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries. Theme: Implementing Strategies and Sharing Experiences. December 12-15, 2005, Bangkok, Thailand.
RCDL 2005 the Seventh All-Russia Scientific Conference Digital libraries: Advanced Mehtods and Technologies Digital Collections. October 4-6 2005. Yaroslavl, Russia.
RCDL 2004 the Sixth Russian Conference on Digital Libraries in Pushchino, Russia. September 29 - October 1, 2004.
ECDL 2005 the 9th European Digital Library Conferences. September 18-23, 2005, Vienna, Austria.
DELOS Summer School 2005 Digital Preservation in Digital Libraries. June 5-11, 2005, Sophia Antipolis, France.
JCDL 2005 the fifth Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. Digital Libraries: Cyberinfrastructure for Research and Education. June 7-11, 2005, Denver, CO.
AVIVDiLib 2005 the 7th Seventh International Workshop of the EU Network of Excellence DELOS on Audio-Visual Content and Information Visualization in Digital Libraries will be held on May 4-6, 2005 in Cortona, Italy.
ECDL 2004 the 4th European Conference on Digital Libraries. September 12-17 2004. University of Bath, UK.
ISDL 2004 the third DELOS International Summer School on Digital Library Technologies. September 6-10 2004, Pisa, Italy.
JCDL 2004 the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries: Global Reach and Diverse Impact. June 7-11, 2004. Tucson, Arizona, USA.
ICDL 2004 International Conference on Digital Libraries: Knowledge creation, preservation, access and management. February 24-27, New Delhi, India.
ICADL 2003 the 6th International Conference of Asian Digital Libraries. Digital Libraries: Technology and Management of Indigenous Knowledge for Global Access. Kuala Lumpur, December 8-11, 2003.
RCDL 2003 Fifth National Russian Research Conference on Digital Libraries Saint-Petersburg, Russia, October 29-31, 2003.
ECDL 2003 the 7th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. August 17-22, 2003 Trondheim, Norway.
JCDL 2003 the third Joint Conference on Digital Libraries May 27-31, 2003. Houston, Texas, USA.
ICADL 2002 the 5th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries. Digital Libraries: People, Knowledge and Technology. December 11-14 2002, Singapore.
International Conference of Digital Library. Challenges and Opportunities in the New Millennium. July 8-12, 2002. Beijing, China.
ECDL 2002. The 6th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. September 16-18, 2002. Rome, Italy.
RCDL 2002. The Fourth All-Russian Scientific Conference on Digital Libraries: Advanced Methods And Technologies, Digital Collections. October 15-17, 2002. Dubna, Russia.
JCDL 2002. The Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. July 14-18, 2002. Portland, Oregon, USA.
NDDL 2002. The Second International Workshop on New Developments in Digital Libraries April 2-3, 2002, Ciudad Real, Spain. In conjunction with the Fourth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - ICEIS 2002.
Special track on Database and Digital Library Technologies part of the 17th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing. March 10 - 14, 2002, Madrid, Spain.
International Spring School on the Digital Library 2002 E-publishing for Science and Technology March 3-8, 2002 CERN in Geneva, Switzerland.
ICADL 2001. The 4th International Conference of Asian Digital Libraries Digital Libraries: Dynamic Landscapes for Knowledge Creation, Dissemination and Management. December 10-12, 2001. Bangalore, India.
NDDL 2001. The First International Workshop on New Developments in Digital Libraries. Attached to the Third International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS2001) 7-10 July 2001 Setúbal, Portugal.
RCDL 2001. Digital Libraries: Advanced Methods and Technologies, Digital Collections. The Third All-Russian Scientific Conference. Petrozavodsk, September 11-13, 2001.
ECDL 2001. The 5th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. September 4-8 2001, Darmstadt, Germany.
International Summer School on the Digital Library 2001. The sixth International Summer School for librarians. Four one week sessions, Tilburg, the Netherlands, 30 July - 3 August, 5 - 10 August, Florence, Italy, 7 - 12 October and International Autumn School on the Digital Library and E-publishing for Physics, Astronomy and Mathematics (Cern, Geneva, Switzerland, 9-14 September 2001)
NIT 2001. New Information Technology 2001 conference. Global Digital Library Development in the New Millennium: Fertile Ground for Distributed Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration. May 29-31, 2001. The Tsinghua University in Beijing, China.
JCDL 2001. The First ACM+IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, June 24-28, 2001, Hotel Roanoke and Conference Center, Roanoke, VA.
ECDL 2000. The Fourth European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. September 18-20 2000. Lisbon, Portugal.
International Summer School on the Digital Library 2000. The fifth International Summer School for librarians. July 31 - 11 August 11 2000. Tilburg University, The Netherlands.
IASSIST 2000. Data in the Digital Library: Charting the Future for Social, Spatial and Government Data. June 7-10, 2000. Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.
ACM DL '00. The Fifth ACM Conference on Digital Libraries. June 2-7, 2000. San Antonio, Texas, USA.
ADL 2000. IEEE Advances in Digital Libraries Conference. May 22-24, 2000. Washington, DC, USA.
PEAK 2000. The Economics and Use of Digital Library Collections. March 23 - 24, 2000 Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
The Second Asian Digital Libraries Conference. November 8-9, 1999. National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.
ECDL '99. The Third European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. September 22-24, 1999. Paris, France.
ISDL '99. International Symposium on Digital Libraries 1999. September 28-29, 1999. University of Library and Information Science, Tsukuba, Japan.
International Summer School on the Digital Library 1999. The fourth International Summer School for librarians. August 15-27, 1999. Tilburg University, The Netherlands.
ACM DL '99. Digital Libraries '99. The Fourth ACM Conference on Digital Libraries. August 11-14, 1999. University of California, Berkeley, California.
NSF - CONACyT - ISTEC Workshop on Digital Libraries.The National Science Foundation and el Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología, in conjunction with ISTEC seek to provide a forum for Mexican and United States representatives to share information on Digital Library Initiatives. July 7-9, 1999. Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.
RBDLW99. The Russian-British Workshop on Digital Libraries. June 16-17, 1999. Moscow, Russia.
CoLIS3. The Third International Conference on Concepts in Library and Information Science with the thme of Digital Libraries: Interdisciplinary Concepts, Challenges and Opportunities Inter-University Centre Dubrovnik (IUC) Dubrovnik, Croatia, May 23-26, 1999.
ADL '99. IEEE Advances in Digital Libraries Conference. May 19-21, 1999. Baltimore Hilton and Towers Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
ECDL '98. Second European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. September 19-23, 1998 in Heraklion, Crete, Greece.
International Summer School on the Digital Library 1998. The third International Summer School for librarians. August 16-21, 1998. Tilburg University, The Netherlands.
ISIC 98. Information Seeking in Context: an International Conference on Information Needs, Seeking and Use in Different Contexts. August 13-15, 1998 in Sheffield, UK.
Digital Libraries '98. The Third ACM International Conference on Digital Libraries. June 23-26, 1998. Pittsburgh, PA.
Russian-American Workshop on Digital Libraries April 16-17, 1998, Moscow, Russia. The themes were the US Digital Libraries Initiative (Phase II) and Russian Digital Libraries Program.
ADL '98. IEEE Advances in Digital Libraries Conference. April 22-24, 1998. Fess Parker's Doubletree Resort Santa Barbara, California, USA.
Digital Libraries Asia 98 Conference and Exhibition. The Digital Era: Implications, Challenges and Issues. March 17-20 1998, The Westin Stamford and Westin Plaza, Singapore.
ECDL '97 First European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. September 1-3 1997, Pisa, Italy.
International Summer School on the Digital Library 1997. August 10-22, 1997. Tilburg University, The Netherlands.
AI in Digital Libraries. Part of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence Workshop Series. August 23-29, 1997, Nagoya, Japan.
Digital Libraries '97. The Second ACM International Conference on Digital Libraries. July 24-26, 1997. Philadelphia, PA.
ELVIRA4. The 4th UK Digital Libraries Conference (Electronic Library and Visual Information Research.) May 6-8, 1997. Milton Keynes, UK.
ADL '97. A Forum on Research and Technology Advances in Digital Libraries. May 7-9, 1997. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Visualizing Subject Access for 21st Century Information Resources is the 34th Annual Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. March 2-4, 1997. Urbana, IL.
ADL '96. Forum on Research and Technology Advances in Digital Libraries May 13-15, 1996, Washington, D.C.
ELVIRA3. The UK Digital Libraries Conference. Third International Conference, Electronic Library and Visual Information Research. Hilton National Hotel, April 30-May 2, 1996, Milton Keynes, UK.
Digital Libraries Conference. Singapore Information Technology Institute. March 27-28, 1995. Raffles City Convention Centre, Singapore.
The following conferences and workshops have made all, or at least a substantial selection, of the full text of the proceedings available online.
TREC the Text REtrieval Conference (TREC) held yearly at the National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, Maryland. The articles from TREC 3-8 are in Postscript.
IEEE Metadata 99 The Third IEEE Meta-Data Conference. April 6-7, 1999. Natcher Building & Conference Center NIH Campus, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
Successes and Failures of Digital Libraries is the 35th Annual GSLIS Clinic formerly known as the Annual Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. March 22-24, 1998. Urbana, Illinois.
ISDL'97. The International Symposium on Research, Development & Practice in Digital Libraries is sponsored by University of Library and Information Science. November 18-21, 1997. Tsukuba Science City, Japan.
IEEE Metadata 97. The Second IEEE Metadata Conference. September 16-17, 1997, Silver Spring, Maryland.
Beyond the Beginning: The Global Digital Library an international conference organized by UKOLN on behalf of JISC, CNI, BLRIC, CAUSE and CAUL was held June 16-17, 1997 at The Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, London, UK.
Santa Fe Planning Workshop on Distributed Knowledge Work Environments: Digital Libraries was held to discuss issues surrounding a follow on initiative to the Digital Libraries Initiative. March 9-11, 1997 Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Allerton '96. Libraries, People and Change: A Research Forum on Digital Libraries. The 38th Allerton Institute of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. October 27-29, 1996. Allerton Park, Monticello, Illinois.
SIGIR-96 Workshop on Networked Information Retrieval. The workshop was held during the 19th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. August 22, 1996. ETH, Zurich, Switzerland.
Institute on Digital Library Development. July 15-19 and July 29-August 2, 1996 Berkeley, California.
IATUL 1996. The International Association of Technological University Libraries. The overall theme of the conference will be "Networks, Networking and Implications for Digital Libraries." June 24-28, 1996 at the University of California, Irvine.
OGDL II. Organizing the Global Digital Library II and Naming Conventions May 21-22, 1996. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
IEEE Metadata 96. The First IEEE Metadata Conference. April 16-18, 1996, Silver Spring, Maryland.
ACM DL'96. The First ACM International Conference on Digital Libraries. March 20-23, 1996, Bethesda, Maryland. The conference proceedings may be found at: DL '96. Proceedings of the 1st ACM international conference on Digital libraries. Note: this is part of the ACM Digital Library and requires a subscription to access.
Social Aspects of Digital Libraries. February 16-17, 1996, University of California, Los Angeles.
OGDL. Organizing the Global Digital Library Conference December 11, 1995. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
ISDL'95. International Symposium on Digital Libraries 1995. August 22-25, 1995. Tsukuba Science City, Ibaraki 305, Japan.
Digital Libraries '95 (DL'95). The Second International Conference on the Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, held June 11-13, 1995. Austin, Texas.
Building the Digital Library: Content Issues. Proceedings of the Library of Congress Network Advisory Committee. June 4-6, 1995. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
IITA Digital Libraries Workshop. Interoperability, Scaling and the Digital Libraries Research Agenda. May 18-19, 1995, Reston, Virginia.
Allerton '95. How we do user-centered design and evaluation of Digital Libraries: A methodological forum. The 37th Allerton Institute conference of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. October 29-31, 1995. Allerton Park, Monticello, Illinois.
Seminar on Cataloging Digital Documents October 12-14, 1994 sponsored by the University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville and the Library of Congress.
Digital Libraries '94 (DL '94). The First Annual Conference on the Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries June 19-21, 1994. College Station, Texas.
WWW6, the Sixth International World Wide Web Conference April 7-11, 1997, Santa Clara, California.
WWW5, the Fifth International World Wide Web Conference. May 6-10, 1996, at CNIT-Paris La Défense, France.
WWW3, the Third International World-Wide Web Conference: Technology, Tools and Applications April 10-14, 1995, Darmstadt, Germany.
WWW2, the Second International World-Wide Web Conference: Mosaic and the Web. October 17-20, 1994, Chicago, IL.
WWW1, the First International World-Wide Web Conference May 25-27, 1994, CERN, Geneva Switzerland.
These are pieces as well as collections that have been placed online in their full an unabbreviated form.
Buildings, books, and bytes is the November 1996 by the Benton Foundation which reports on what library leaders and the public have to say about the future of libraries and communities in the digital age.
Digital Library News is published by the IEEE Computer Society three times a year. "It is a brief alerting/reporting service for those working in the diverse fields which digital libraries comprise."
ERCIM - the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics has placed its ERCIM News special theme on digital libraries online. ERCIM News No.27 - October 1996.
The IEEE Computer Society's has placed the full text of related articles online for their May 1996 theme issue of Computer on the US Digital Library Initiative.
Solaris is an annual review of research in information science and communications, including digital libraries from the Groupe interuniversitaire de recherche en sciences de l'information et de la communication (GIRSIC). The 1994, 1995 and 1996 issues are available in French with some English.
Many of the articles in the SIGLINK Newsletter Special issue on Digital Libraries are online. The articles are in a mix of HTML and Postscript. September, 1995 (Volume 4, Number 2).
An online edition of Communications of the ACM - August 1995 Special Issue on Designing Hypermedia Applications.
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has placed the full text of the Volume 38, No. 4 (April 1995) online for the Communications of the ACM issue on Digital Libraries. Note: this is part of the ACM Digital Library and requires a subscription to access.
The Digital Library Source Book, 1993, edited by Edward Fox. The articles are in Postscript and PDF.
These sites contain contain well rounded and or unique selections of information and resources about digital libraries.
The Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE is dedicated to gathering and publishing information about digital library projects and other digital content. It will also provide a platform for digital research and development as well as promote discussions on topics related to digital libraries, museums and archives.
The Open Archives Initiative "develops and promotes interoperability standards that aim to facilitate the efficient dissemination of content. The Open Archives Initiative has its roots in an effort to enhance access to e-print archives as a means of increasing the availability of scholarly communication."
oss4lib is dedicated to bringing open source systems to libraries
The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions or (IFLA) maintains a set of references for digital libraries resources and projects, metadata resources, cataloging and indexing of electronic resources and interlibrary loan, document delivery and resource sharing information. IFLA also runs a number of mailing lists including the DIGLIB mailing list.
The ARL Digital Initiatives Database is "a database of digital initiative projects taking place in or involving libraries. The objective of the ARL Digital Initiatives Database is to gather information about digital projects of all sizes and scope together in one place. Representation of a wide range of projects will identify knowledge and technical skills within the library community and promote information sharing."
Current Awareness Application of New Technologies in Libraries is "a weekly list of journal articles references pertaining to the application of new technologies in libraries. This services is maintained by Erik Arfeuille and is based on journals recently received by the Vakbibliotheek of the K.U. Leuven Central Library."
New Horizons in Scholarly Communication maintained by the Librarians Association of the University of California deals broadly with the use of new media in teaching and research, new publishing models and access issues.
Resources for Digital Library Projects maintained by Lorre Smith.
Pointers to national and international library projects from the BELNET User Forum Workgroup on Libraries.
The EFF Intellectual Property Online Archive includes topics such as patents, trademarks and copyright contains a wide array of articles, legal documents and links to other resources in the area of intellectual property.
The WWW Multimedia Law site producers and publishers of multimedia are oriented to legal liabilities faced on a number of platforms, not necessarily the Internet.
The Human Computer Interaction HCI Index maintained by Hans de Graaff.
ACM SIGCHI is the ACM special interest group on Computer-Human Interaction.
The following organizations all provide explicit support or help contribute on a coordination or policy level to digital library related projects.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) funds and coordinates a large portion of digital library research in the United States. They have taken the lead role in funding the Digital Libraries Initiative (DLI).
National Coordination Office for Computing, Information, and Communications (CCIC of NCO) formerly the National Coordination Office for High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC) has made digital libraries a National Challenge Application in since 1993. "Blue Books" are annual reports presenting CCIC Program plans and accomplishments. Here are pointers to the relevant sections.
The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) "is an organization to advance the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity. Founded in 1990 by the Association of Research Libraries, Educom, and CAUSE, CNI is supported by the members of an institutional Task Force representing higher education, publishing, network and telecommunications, information technology, and libraries and library organizations."
The Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI) "is a non-profit organization dedicated to formulating, planning and carrying out national-level research initiatives on the use of network-based information technology." Many of their projects are digital library related.
The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) promotes the innovative application and use of information systems and information technology in Higher and Further education across the UK.
The Russian Digital Libraries Program is an interagency program comprised of a number of federal ministries and agencies. The first competition under the Program for 1998 was announced by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research and Russian Foundation for Technological Development.
The Digital Library Federation is an organization constructed from fifteen of the nation's largest research libraries and archives.