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Digital Libraries Research at Cornell |
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Human Computer Interaction Group Archive of Digital Libraries Research |
Digital libraries research Digital libraries research is an interdisciplinary activity within Information Science at Cornell. The work is rooted in the practical problems of large-scale electronic publishing, web information systems, scholarly communication and the long-term preservation of digital information. Our research investigates architecture, protocols, services, and policies that facilitate the creation, management, accessibility, and longevity of distributed information. Current research The National Science Digital LIbrary The National Science Digital Library (NSDL) is a long-term program of the National Science Foundation to enhance all aspects of education in science, mathematics and engineering. There are many NSDL-funded projects at Cornell, and Cornell is a member of the Core Integration team. Fedora Fedora is an open-source digital repository management system developed jointly by Cornell and the University of Virginia. It defines mechanisms for the storage, manipulation, access management, and dissemination of digital library content. The Web Library The Web Library is a joint project of Cornell University and the Internet Archive to provide data and computing facilities for research about the structure and evolution of the Web and the information on the Web. The data is provided from the Web collections of the Internet Archive, the computing facilities are based at the Cornell Theory Center. Open Archives Initiative The Open Archives Initiative is a project investigating and deploying practical, low-entry mechanisms, based on metadata harvesting for digital library interoperability. Related work About the digital library research group |
Highlights 1991-1995: The CORE project with Cornell, the American Chemical Society, BellCore and OCLC is the first project to mount scientific journals online. 1993-2000: Cornell's Dienst system is used to build NCSTRL, a world-wide digital library of reports from over 100 computer science departments. 1999-: Fedora research leads to a widely-deployed repository management system 1999-: Cornell's PRISM, a major project in the NSF's Digital Library Initiative, becomes the home for the Open Archive Initiative. 2001-: Six groups at Cornell are funded by NSF's program to build the National Digital Library for science education (NSDL). |
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William Y. Arms
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Last changed: February 1, 2006