Archive of Digital Library Research

An archive of digital library research at Cornell

CORE (1991 - 1995)

The CORE project was the first large-scale project to digitize scientific papers. It built an electronic library prototype of primary journal articles in chemistry, containing about four years of twenty primary journals published by the American Chemical Society (about 400,000 pages). It was a joint project of Cornell University, Bellcore, OCLC, the American Chemical Society, and Chemical Abstracts [CORE].

Dienst (1993 - 2000)

Dienst is an architecture, protocol, and software implementation for creating distributed digital libraries. Dienst was the technical basis for the Networked Computer Science Technical Reference Library [Dienst].

D-Lib Magazine (1991 - 2001)

D-Lib Magazine is a monthly magazine on innovation and research in digital libraries. D-Lib Magazine is published by CNRI and is currently being funded by the National Science Foundation. From 1999 - 2001, the magazine was funded by DARPA and produced jointly by Cornell and CNRI [D-Lib Magazine].

Nomadic Digital Libraries (1999 - 2001)

This was a joint project by the members of the Computer Science department and the Human Computer Interaction Group, with funding from Intel, to investigate the application of distributed digital library technology to nomadic (disconnected or randomly connected) devices, e.g. palm devices, hand-helds, and roaming laptops [Nomad].

Preserving the Open Access Web (1999 - 2000)

This was a project working with the Library of Congress to initiate a broad program to collect and preserve open-access materials from the World Wide Web. It became the basis of the Library of Congress's Minerva project [Minerva].

NCSTRL (1995 - 2000)

The Networked Computer Science Technical Reference Library (NCSTRL), is an digital library that was developed at Cornell as part of the DARPA CSTR program. It is based on the Dienst architecture. NCSTRL is now hosted at Old Dominion University [NCSTRL].

Research on Policy Enforcement (1999 - 2001)

This program of research studied the use of language-based security techniques for the enforcement of  security policies for complex, extensible objects [Policy Enforcement].

OpCit: Reference Linking (1999 - 2002)

Experiments in automatic extraction and linking of references from online documents. This was an NSF International Digital Libraries project jointly with the University of Southampton [OpCit].

Mercator: Web crawling (2001 - 2002)

Experiments, using the Mercator Web Crawler, to use web crawling as a tool to build digital library collections automatically [Mercator].