Copyright Issues Relevant to the Creation of a Digital Archive: A Preliminary Assessment by June M. Besek (CLIR: Commissioned for and sponsored by the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program, Library of Congress)
Mary Minow's ppt materials, from School for Scanning 2004 (available through July 2004)
Library Digitization Projects and Copyright By Mary Minow, J.D., A.M.L.S.
Breaking News and Current Awareness from Minow's librarylaw.com
Web Pages, Digitization Projects by Libraries and Legal Issues from librarylaw.com
Legal Issues to Consider When Digitizing Collections by Jean Helig (1999)
How to Investigate the Copyright Status of a Work from Library of Congress
When Works Pass Into the Public Domain in the United States: Copyright Term for Archivists and Librarians (Peter Hirtle)
Getting Permission from University of Texas
Copyright Renewal Records search, 1923-1963 (Michael Lesk)
Creative Commons licensing
Why We Must Talk about the Information Commons (David Bollier) --also a pdf version, as published in Law Library Journal [2004])
Art & Architecture Thesaurus Online from Getty Research Institute
Taxonomies, Ontologies, Thesauri and Authority Files: The Key to Better Information Retrieval, a Synapse White Paper (KMS101) from synaptica.com
A-Z of Thesauri from the High Level Thesaurus Project
Taxonomy Warehouse
Controlled vocabularies, thesauri and classification systems available in the WWW. DC Subject Compiled by Traugott Koch
Digital Libraries- The Importance of Being Granular By Roy Tennant, Library Journal May 2002
MetaMap from University of Montréal
Introduction to Metadata: Pathways to Digital Information (edited by Murtha Baca, Getty Research Institute)
Defining Metadata Anne J. Gilliland-Swetland
Metadata Standards overview from Heritage Canada
Metadata Encoding & Transmission Standard from Library of Congress
Dublin Core Metadata Initiative main page
Crosswalks: The Path to Universal Access? (Mary Woodley)
University Libraries Metadata Core from University of Minnesota
Automated Exposure: Capturing Technical Metadata for Digital Still Images (RLG white paper by Günter Waibel and Robin Dale)
Ariadne ("...targeted principally at information science professionals in academia, and also to interested lay people both in and beyond the Higher Education community. Its main geographic focus is the UK, but it is widely read in the US and worldwide. The magazine has as its principal goal: to report on information service developments and information networking issues worldwide, keeping the busy practitioner abreast of current digital library initiatives.")Information Research: An International Electronic Journal
Journal of Digital Information ("Publishing papers on the management, presentation and uses of information in digital environments")
Information Representation and Retrieval in the Digital Age (Heting Chu)
...offers a comprehensive view of Information Representation and Retrieval (IRR). Emphasizes principles and fundamentals, reviewing key concepts and major developmental stages of the field. For students or practitioners needed broad and current knowledge of this topic in information science. DLC: Information organization.Roy Tennant's new Managing the Digital Library is a collection of his columns from Library Journal... but it's also a marvelous entrée for the subject. See his recent columns ...and links to most of the original versions of the (sometimes extensively rewritten) sections of the book.
For an example of integrated digital library development, see About Digital Libraries from U. Minnesota