OCLC Systems & Services: International digital library perspectives: Volume 23 Issue 4
Table of contents - Special Issue: Including a special section: institutional repositories
Identity parade: building web portals about people
Toby BurrowsThe purpose of this paper is to look at the current state of initiatives to develop “people‐centred” portals by repurposing name authority data from union catalogues and similar…
Bibliographic challenges in historical context: looking back to 1982
Norm MedeirosThe purpose of this article is to reflect on the state of bibliographic access.
Digital curation
Elizabeth YakelThe purpose of this article is to provide an overview of development and recent focus on digital curation and ties it to larger cyberinfrastructure initiatives.
Ghost in the machine
Robert FoxThis column aims to explore the important issue of developing native skills in the library profession in order to develop and maintain library applications.
The system development life cycle and digital library development
H. Frank CervoneThe purpose of this article is to develop an understanding of the system development lifecycle and its role in managing the development of digital library systems.
Outsourcing open access: Digital Commons at the University of Wollongong, Australia
Michael Organ, Helen MandlThe purpose of this article is to outline the experiences of an Australian university in selecting a proprietary solution for its open access digital repository requirements.
E‐science and open access repositories in Spain
Blanca Rodríguez Bravo, Ma Luisa Alvite DíezThe purpose of this article is to highlight the role of science repositories in the development of e‐science. It aims to provide an overview of the open access collections…
Linking repositories: Scoping the development of cross‐institutional user‐oriented services
Chris Awre, Alma SwanThe purpose of the linking repositories study was to conduct research to identify appropriate sustainable technical and organisational models to support the development of…
From digital library to institutional repository: a brief look at one library's path
Marianne A. Buehler, Marcia S. TrauernichtThe purpose of this paper is to give an overview of the initial transformation of one academic library's digital media library into the institutional repository (IR) of its entire…
Building institutional repository infrastructure in regional Australia
Caroline DruryThe purpose of this paper is to focus on the development of FOSTER, its anticipated use and outcomes.
New possibilities for metadata creation in an institutional repository context
Alan Burk, Muhammad Al‐Digeil, Dominic Forest, Jennifer WhitneyThe purpose of this paper is to develop automated methods for creating metadata for documents in an institutional repository.