OCLC Systems & Services: International digital library perspectives: Volume 22 Issue 1
Table of contents
Realising the potential of web services
Judith WustemanTo highlight the potential of web services for libraries.
On the road again: a conversation with Jill Emery
Norm MedeirosTo interview Jill Emery, Director of the Electronic Resources Program at the University of Houston.
The Archival Census and Education Needs survey in the United States (A*CENSUS)
Victoria Walch, Elizabeth YakelTo discuss the purpose, methodology, and results of the recent Archival Census and Education Needs Survey in the United States (A*CENSUS)
The need for a digital library service registry
Jeremy FrumkinTo examine how a digital library service registry will help enable the development of distributed, service‐based digital libraries.
Lingua franca of digital libraries
Robert FoxAims to give an overview of web services, related protocols, and examples of use.
Avoiding failure by using a formal problem diagnosis process
H. Frank CervoneSeeks to provide an overview of a formal method for diagnosing and resolving problems that arise during the system development process.
Long‐term preservation of digital humanities scholarship
Linda CantaraTo inform digital humanists about digital preservation metadata requirements and to inform digital librarians about the dynamic, multimedia content of digital humanities research…
JSTOR usage data and what it can tell us about ourselves: is there predictability based on historical use by libraries of similar size?
Barbara J. Gauger, Carolyn KacenaSets out to explore what effects institutional size and the selections of JSTOR collections have on the overall (total) usage statistics.
Sustaining a digital collection after the grants: the Early Washington Maps Project
Trevor James BondAims to provide an overview of methods for digitizing maps, the creation and preservation of a digital collection, interoperable database construction, and an examination of the…
Using web logs transactions to assess a metadata registry system's use: the case of MetaForm
Panayiota PolydoratouMetaForm is a database that hosts metadata element sets, descriptions and guidelines for their use. It is the focal point of the Metadata Server at SUB Göttingen for anyone who is…