Digital Libraries Research

Digital Libraries Research at Cornell

Digital libraries research is based on the practical problems of large-scale electronic publishing, libraries, web information systems, scholarly communication and the long-term preservation of digital information. Cornell University has been a pioneer in this field with research into architecture, protocols, services, and policies that facilitate the creation, management, accessibility, and longevity of distributed information.

Archive

Core (1991-1995)

The CORE project with Cornell, the American Chemical Society, BellCore and OCLC was the first project to mount scientific journals online. [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 (1995 - 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].

Fedora (1997 -)

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 [Fedora].

Preserving the Open Access Web (1999 - 2000)

This was a project 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].

Open Archives Initiative (2000 -)

The Open Archives Initiative is a project investigating and deploying practical, low-entry mechanisms, based on metadata harvesting for digital library interoperability [OAI].

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].

The National Science Digital Library (2000 - 2011)

The National Science Digital Library (NSDL) was a long-term program of the National Science Foundation to enhance all aspects of education in science, mathematics and engineering. There were many NSDL-funded projects at Cornell, and Cornell was a member of the Core Integration team [NSDL].

The Web Lab (2005 - 2011)

The Web Lab was 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 [Web Lab].