Readings 2, Paper 1Crane, G. (1998). The Perseus Project and Beyond: How Building a Digital Library Challenges the Humanities and Technology. D-Lib Magazine, 4(1).http://dx.doi.org/cnri.dlib/january98-cranePublication information: - It was published in 1998.
- He worked on the Perseus project in the Department of Classics at Tufts University.
- D-Lib Magazine is an online publication.
Take-Aways: - The Perseus Project is being used by random citizens to satisfy their curiosity and make them more educated.
- Scholars do a bad job of getting their ideas to the general public.
- In the Perseus Project, they spent most of their time working on ways to convert the data into a consistent format. This made it easy to create new frontends.
- He argues that new directions in humanities will come from young researchers.
- He looks at some ways to expand the library.
- How could we add urls with links to sources and additional information to today's videos?
- Did people really use the system?
- The Persesus website is now at version 4. How has it expanded since this was written?
- He gives some examples of new ways things could be published online. What are some more ways?
Readings 2, Paper 2Fox, E. A., et al. (1997). Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations: An International Effort Unlocking University Resources. D-Lib Magazine, 3(8). http://dx.doi.org/cnri.dlib/september97-foxPublication information: - It was published in 1997.
- They are from Virginia Tech.
- D-Lib Magazine is an online publication.
Take-Aways: - They talk about the history of the National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
- They have tools that read data from several sources including Microsoft Word and LaTeX.
- People want to restrict the dissemination of their research.
- The non-technical aspects of a digital library are non-trivial.
- What can be done to deal with the non-technical challenges related to a digital library?
- How can multiple digital libraries work together?
- How has sharing documents changed since 1997?
Readings 2, Paper 3Greenstein, D., & Thorin, S. E. (2002). The Digital Library: A Biography (No. 109). Washington, DC: Council on Library and Information Resources. http://www.clir.org/PUBS/reports/pub109/pub109.pdfPublication information: - It was published in 2002.
- Daniel Greenstein was a librarian for the California Digital Library, and Suzanne Thorin is the dean of Libraries at Indiana University.
- It was published as a report by the Council on Library and Information Resources.
Take-Aways: - They do case studies of 6 different digital libraries out of a set of 21 well-known libraries.
- They look at how a young digital library will organize itself.
- Competition with other libraries can hurt the cause.
- Do these six libraries form a reasonable approximation of other libaries?
- How do digital libraries change as they get older?
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