Report to Digital Library Federation, 01/05/01
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Cornell University Library Report to the Digital Library Federation January 5, 2001
I. Collections, Services and Systems
A. Collections
1. Primarily Text:
City of New York, Office of Collective Bargaining Decisions: The Martin P. Catherwood Library at Cornell's School of Industrial & Labor Relations, by special arrangement, makes collective bargaining decisions from this New York City agency available full-text in a searchable archive. The Office of Collective Bargaining is an impartial, tri-partite agency created by local law as authorized by the New York State's Taylor Law. It was established by the City of New York after negotiations and agreement with unions representing City employees. The OCB provides assistance to management (the City), and labor (unions representing city employees) in resolving their differences. http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/library/e_archive/nysgov_reports/nyc_ocb/ search_decisions.html
Core Historical Literature in Agriculture (CHLA): A companion compilation to the Making of America database, CHLA is a representative electronic collection of agricultural texts published between the early nineteenth century and middle to late twentieth century. Full-text materials cover agricultural economics, agricultural engineering, animal science, crop protection, food science, forestry, human nutrition, rural sociology, and soil science. http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/chla/
Cornell University Geospatial Information Repository: CUGIR is an active online repository providing geospatial data and metadata for New York State, with special emphasis on those natural features relevant to agriculture, ecology, natural resources, and human-environment interactions. All data files are cataloged in accordance with FGDC standards and made available in widely used geospatial data formats. Datasets that can be downloaded include: agricultural districts, census block groups, county boundaries, freshwater wetlands, hydrography, and landmarks.
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Death Penalty Web Site: In collaboration with the Cornell Law School Death Penalty project, the Law Library makes available a variety of resources devoted to the subject. http://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/library
EAD/XML Finding Aids: The Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections has begun a major effort to convert several thousand paper and electronic finding aids to Encoded Archival Description (EAD), encoded in XML. It builds on local encoding standards developed under an earlier experiment with EAD delivery options using XSL . Most of the conversion is expected to be completed in-house. For delivery, XML encoded finding aids will be converted to HTML using XSL style sheets. Currently this is done in batch, but dynamic conversion is being explored. Further work will add guide navigation functionality and collection-wide search capability. For a list of approximately 60 guides currently available, see http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/ead/
E-Archive: The Martin P. Catherwood Library at Cornell's School of Industrial & Labor Relations collects key materials on workplace issues by special arrangement with government offices, commissions, task forces, and non-governmental associations. The Electronic Archive has established itself as a unique repository for materials that encompass any and all aspects of the employer-employee relationship. Many items, like the Glass Ceiling Commission materials, are officially archived at this site. Researchers can rely on these items remaining available for years to come. Access is free to the public. http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/library/e_archive/
Ezra Cornell: The papers of Ezra Cornell include over 30,000 scanned pages from letters, diaries, photographs, documents, and publications, and represent the Cornell University Library's first effort to make a large manuscript collection digitally available. http://moa.cit.cornell.edu/cdl/EZRA.html
HeinOnline: The Law Library collaborates with Cornell Information Technologies and the Hein Publishing Company in making historical law reviews available over the Internet, both in image form for authenticity, as well as uncorrected OCR text to allow for manipulation of the text. http://heinonline.org
Historic Monographs in Mathematics: The Cornell University Historic Math Collection consists of 571 books that were scanned from originals held by the Cornell University Library. The Math collection is a result of a collaboration between Cornell University and Xerox Corporation, with the support of the
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Commission on Preservation and Access, to test an advanced technology for scanning deteriorating books as digital images and producing on-demand, high quality paper copies. http://moa.cit.cornell.edu/dienst-data/cdl-math-browse.html
International Court of Justice Web Mirror Site: In partnership with the International Court of Justice, the Cornell Law Library created the first official Web site for the Court, and was instrumental in the Court starting its own official Web site. The Law Library makes available for the Americas complete and simultaneous access to the full-text decisions, documents, and other materials produced by the World Court. The Law Library captures this information twice a year in order to archive the entire Web collection as presented at a given time. This ensures permanent access in Web format in a way similar to the various editions of a print publication. http://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/library
International Labor Organization Web Mirror Site: In partnership with the International Labor Office in Geneva, Switzerland, the Cornell Law Library makes available for the Americas complete and simultaneous access to the full text reports, documents, and other materials produced by this distinguished organization. The Law Library intends to capture this information twice a year, in order to archive the entire Web collection as presented at a given time. This ensures permanent access in Web format in a way similar to the various editions of a print publication. http://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/library
Making of America (MOA): The MOA project is a multi-institutional initiative to create and make accessible over the Internet a distributed digital library of important materials on the history of the United States. The project represents a major collaborative endeavor in preservation and electronic access to historical texts. The Cornell University Library and the University of Michigan libraries cooperated in the initial phase of MOA, which has been funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and The Charles E. Culpepper Foundation. This site provides access to 267 monographs and over 100,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints. http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/moa/
Permanent Court of Arbitration Web Site: The Law Library cooperates with the Permanent Court of Arbitration, in the Hague, the Netherlands, in making several of their documents available. http://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/library
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UN21 Interest Group Newsletter: The Law Library publishes and archives the newsletter from the American Society of International Law. http://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/library
USDA Report System: The USDA Economics and Statistics System contains nearly 300 reports and datasets from the economics agencies of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. These materials cover U.S. and international agriculture and related topics. Most reports are text files that contain time-sensitive information. Most data sets are in spreadsheet format and include time-series data that are updated yearly. This system complements the Cornell Library's USDA Reports by Subscription service. http://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/mor_start.html
Workplace Issues Today: The Martin P. Catherwood Library at Cornell's School of Industrial & Labor Relations established Workplace Issues Today (WIT) in 1999 as a selective news center where faculty, students and interested public could go for the late breaking news on workplace issues. All news items are placed in a searchable archive in the hope that it can represent, in an abbreviated form, a chronology of workplace issues of major concern to the public. In addition, it should give some guidance to the researcher about the who, what, when, where, and how of the workplace over time. One can subscribe to the free e-mail service and get vital news about the workplace delivered to the desktop. WIT is published Monday through Friday mornings, except University holidays. Access is free to the public. http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/library/wit/
2. Primarily Visual Image:
Beautiful Birds: Masterpieces from the Hill Ornithology Collection: Beautiful Birds traces the development of ornithological illustration in the 18th and 19th centuries and highlights the changing techniques - from metal and wood engraving to chromolithography - during that period. This site highlights Cornell University Library's Hill Ornithology Collection, which chronicles the pre-1900 development of ornithology as a science, and depicts the growth of bird illustration as an art form, with particular concern for comprehensiveness in North American ornithology. http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/ornithology/
The Contemporary African Artists Database: This database is the result of a Rockefeller and Ford Foundation funded initiative designed to document and disseminate contemporary African art, as well as promote networking between African artists and art institutions. The computerized database will also be used to
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generate a series of bio-bibliographic dictionaries. The bio-bibliographic information is stored on a Cornell University Library Macintosh server; artists images are stored on a Cornell Institute for Digital Collections image server. Currently, the database is accessible only to authorized personnel. For assistance contact us at afrartists-mailbox@cornell.edu. Current url: http://rmc2.library.cornell.edu/contemporaryafricanart/options.htm
The Fantastic: Graphic material from the Cornell witchcraft collections provides an unusual and rarely seen counterpoint to a comparative literature course analyzing German, Anglo-American, French, and Latin-American works from the late 18th century to the present. The project promises to be a model for new and unusual ways of incorporating digitized resources into teaching. http://rmc2.library.cornell.edu/fantastic/
Fuertes: Louis Agassiz Fuertes is a native of Ithaca, New York and the nation's most notable ornithological painter since Audubon. Cornell University holds a large collection of Fuertes' bird illustrations, as well as his personal papers. You will find here a database with 2500 of these illustrations, as well as an exhibit based on the journal he kept during the 1899 Harriman Alaska expedition. http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/Birds/
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art: 15,000 images of works of art contained within the Johnson Museum of Art are currently available for viewing using Luna Insight's Browser Insight® II software which allows for several search options in database access. Cornell's art repository includes paintings, prints, sculptures, and published graphical images (woodcuts, etc.). By putting the collection on-line, students, faculty, visitors, and users on the Internet will be able to electronically explore and research the collection from their home, office, or one of the workstations in the museum. Users can learn about artists and their works, and use Insight tools to view high quality images and groups of images. http://insight.library.cornell.edu/insightbrowser2/launcher.asp
New York State School of Human Ecology: Historical Photographs: This collection contains over fourteen hundred photographs of students and faculty, buildings and scenes that portray the College from its founding through 1969. http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/edb-hephotos/
Utopia: Utopia is a database of images of European Renaissance art, primarily from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. It is a joint project of Cornell's History of Art Department, College of Arts and Sciences, the Knight Visual Resources Facility, College of Architecture, Art, and Planning, the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, and the Rare and Manuscript Collections of the Cornell University
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Library. The collection can presently be accessed through and is in the process of becoming accessible using Luna Insight software at http://insight.library.cornell.edu/insightbrowser2/launcher.asp
3. Text, Sound, and Moving Image:
Death of the Father: This project took a multimedia approach to examining the closure of political authority following the death of such patriarchal figures as Stalin, Hitler, and Mussolini. An international team of anthropologists worked with the Cornell University Library to develop a web site that integrated text, digital images, audio and film clips from totalitarian regimes in the Soviet Union, Germany, Italy, Japan, Romania, and Yugoslavia. http://cidc.library.cornell.edu/dof/
GloPAC, the Global Performing Arts Consortium: The Global Performing Arts Consortium is a group of organizations and individuals committed to providing interactive, multimedia and multilingual tools to enable people everywhere to explore the diversity and depth of the world's performing arts. Two Performing Arts Databases (PADs) are under construction: a global database (GPAD; formerly DRAMMA) and a Japanese database (JPAD, formerly HANA). The databases include images, sound and video clips with detailed descriptions in standardized formats to enable effective cross-cultural searching. Funding is being sought now to further the work in metadata definition and database development. http://www.glopac.org/
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire: A multimedia online exhibit that presents original documents on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire of March 25, 1911 in New York City, in which 146 factory workers, mostly immigrant women, met their untimely and tragic death due to poor safety conditions within the factory. The incident triggered outrage and protests that resulted in the enactment of labor protective legislation in New York State. The exhibit gathers news reports, photographs, letters, interview audio files, monograph excerpts, investigative reports, political cartoons, and other documentation. Includes a list of victims and survivors and a bibliography. Presented by the Kheel Center for LaborManagement Documentation and Archives at Cornell University in cooperation with the Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees (UNITE). http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/
B. Services
Cooperative Digital Reference Service Project: The Cornell University Library is participating in The Cooperative Digital Reference Service Project, an international effort
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led by the Library of Congress, which is intended to create a system of linked reference services. The Cornell Library participated in the initial planning and all pilot phases of this project. http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/digiref/
Creation Station: The Creation Station project is a collaborative effort between the Cornell University Library and the Cornell Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Group. In the first semester of the project, eleven high-end computers were available in four locations on campus, three libraries including Engineering Library, Mann Library and Uris Library, and the HCI Lab. In addition to the workstations themselves, each facility also had digital cameras, digital video cameras, scanners, quickcams and software for creating multimedia presentations. Students from three different classes used the facilities to create multimedia presentations for their classes. There were also a significant number of students from outside these classes who used the facilities. Now in its second semester, the Creation Station project has made several important advances. The Creation Station Lab in Uris Library added hardware to enable the conversion of analog video to digital video. We also updated several of the software packages available in all the Creation Station locations. The number of classes participating in the project have increased to five and there has been a dramatic increase in the use of Creation Station equipment and facilities by students not enrolled in these classes. For more information about the Creation Station project please visit http://create.hci.cornell.edu/
Electronic Document Delivery: EDD provides digital copies of journal articles or table of contents from materials in the Cornell University Library's off-site storage facility, the Library Annex. The digital copies are made available on a Library Web server for two weeks in the Adobe PDF format. The hardware component of this service consists of a 333 MHz Pentium II PC with an Minolta IMAX 500 imaging card and a standard ethernet card, a Minolta PS 3000 publication scanner, a Minolta MS 3000 microform scanner, a medium-volume laser printer, and a Canon 9000 fax machine. The PS 3000 is an inverted planetary (overhead) scanner that allows bound volumes to lay face up while scanning, thus providing greater convenience and speed for the operator and reducing physical stress on the volume. Software includes the Epic 3000 and the Microdax 3000 programs, (designed for use with the PS 3000 and MS 3000, respectively), as well as Adobe Acrobat for converting files from the TIFF format to PDF. Several custom scripts and shareware programs have been integrated to streamline the Annex staff's workflow. Eudora e-mail software is used to receive web form requests. http://www.library.cornell.edu/okuaccess/annex/edd/
Electronic Reserves: The electronic reserve system, available in Cornell University Library's Uris Library, is a service that uses the latest in image scanning technology to provide electronic document delivery. The system allows students to find, view and print course materials that have been placed on reserve by instructors. Materials in the
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electronic reserve system include journal articles, exams, course syllabi, problem sets and other materials. Material may be retrieved by searching by instructor name, course title and number, author, or title of the material. For more information see http://www.library. cornell.edu/okuaccess/er/er.html. With the implementation of the Voyager system at Cornell, plans are underway for a campus wide electronic reserve system, which will allow Cornell students to access course reserve materials via the Web. This expanded electronic reserve system is planned for a January 2001 release.
InSITE: The Cornell Law Library annotates new law-related Web sites, creating a free email subscription service and a fully searchable database, complete with key-words. http://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/library
International Association of Law Libraries (IALL) Web Site: In cooperation with the IALL, the Law Library hosts the site of this international organization. http://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/library
Journal Table of Contents: Members of the Cornell University community can sign up to receive by e-mail the tables of contents of one or more of the 285 journals housed in the periodical reading room in the Albert R. Mann Library, Cornell University. The TOC's are sent as the new issues arrive. http://toc.mannlib.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/toc/index2.cgi
Music Listening Stations: The Music Library's reserve music listening will be available through networked, digital streaming technology beginning this August. Initially, access will be provided through state-of-the-art computers, on a fast network, in a new listening lab located in the recently reconstructed Music Library in Lincoln Hall. Reserve music listening required for course work will be made available to students through a familiar web interface, affording a level of control and features not possible using traditional analog media. Future developments in the enforcement of copyright concerns may enable the Library's music listening reserves to be made available to authorized listeners in their dorms, apartments and offices.
My Library: In January, the Cornell University Library introduced MyLibrary, an initiative to provide personalized library services to Cornell University students, faculty, and staff. Currently it consists of MyLinks, a tool for collecting and organizing resources for private use by a patron. These resources may or may not be "official" Cornell University Library resources. Our patrons best understand this service as a "traveling set of bookmarks." The next module will be MyUpdates, a tool to help scholars stay informed of new resources provided by the library. MyUpdates will periodically query the Library catalog to determine which resources are new. If the new resources match the preidentified needs of a patron, MyUpdates e-mails the results to the patron automatically. http://gould.mannlib.cornell.edu/newhelp/res_services/mylib.html
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New Book Listings: The New Book Shelf of the Albert R. Mann Library lists some of the titles recently added to the Mann Library collection. The list is updated approximately every two weeks. Users may browse the Title List to see the tables of contents of selected new books at Mann. http://www.mannlib.cornell.edu/services/newbooks/
Online Chat Reference: LiveHelp is a new, experimental service that lets patrons ask questions and get answers, in real time, from the reference staff in Olin and Uris libraries, Cornell University. LiveHelp is available Monday through Friday 1-5 p.m. http://www.library.cornell.edu/okuref/
Research Databases: The Law Library authors a series of extensive research guides, including the "Foreign and International Law Sources on the Internet: Annotated," the "French Law Guide," and many other content-rich research guides. http://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/library
USDA Reports by Subscription: This is an e-mail subscription service providing quick and timely access to the agricultural and economic estimates that are available in the USDA Reports system maintained by the Albert R. Mann Library, Cornell University. Through this service, subscribers receive the reports of their choice within three hours of their publication via email. This service complements the Cornell Library's USDA Report System. http://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/mor_start.html
Wireless Networks in the Library: Wireless hubs have been set up in five library units. For a map of the current campus wireless infrastructure see http://www.nomad.cornell.edu/ techsupport/nomad_map/. The Engineering Library is going into its second year of providing a wireless infrastructure service and is now fully part of the campus-wide Nomad Service. For information about this original wireless Library service see http:// www.accel.cornell.edu/topframe/laptop.html. The Cornell University Library expects to move aggressively to expand wireless access to additional library units in the upcoming academic year.
C. Systems
ENCompass Development: The Cornell University Library is a co-development partner with Endeavor Information Systems Inc. on the development of ENCompass, a product designed to provide interoperability across digital collections as well to describe, index and search a variety of licensed electronic resources (i.e., provide ¨gateway¨ functionality.) For more information, see http://www.endinfosys.com/prods/encompass.
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ILLiad: In January 2000, the Cornell University Library installed Atlas Systems' ILLiad interlibrary loan system. Library personnel can now serve the Cornell Community better because all data about ILL requests and processing is stored in a searchable database. Patrons can get information about the status of requests through the Web at any time. Copyright clearance, which was previously processed by hand, is now automatically generated. An electronic document delivery service that allows copies of articles requested through interlibrary loan to be delivered directly to patrons' desktops, as well as implementation of the ILLiad Lending module, is scheduled for early 2001. For more information on ILLiad see http://kittrell.mannlib.cornell.edu/illiad/ILLiadFAQ.html.
Voyager Implementation: On June 26, the Cornell University Library completed the migration from Notis to Voyager, Endeavor Information Systems Inc.'s integrated library system. To access the library catalog visit the Library Gateway http://www.library.cornell.edu/
Voyager 2000: On December 29, 2000, the Cornell University Library migrated from the Voyager 99 version of Endeavor Information Systems Inc.'s library management system to Voyager 2000. To access the library catalog visit the Library Gateway http://www. library.cornell.edu/.
II. Projects and Programs
Savings America's Treasures: The Library is now working on a grant-funded project to digitize and conserve the approximately 10,000 anti-slavery pamphlets in its Rare and Manuscript Collection. The grant runs through CY 2002, but enough materials should be digitized by this spring to begin to do some testing.
A.D. White Photo Collection: The Andrew Dickson White Architectural Photographs document a wide range of 19th- and early 20th-century architecture of Europe and the United States, including structures, city streets and habitats that have vanished due to wars and urban development. Many of the photographs are valuable because they represent the work of important photographers, including William James Stillman, three albums of oriental works by Bonfils and a photogravure album of Edouard-Denis Baldus. The collection has received substantive curatorial attention and conservation treatment since September, 1999, when it was awarded a grant from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation. The goal of the A. D. White Photographs Project is to make accessible to the public a fully-catalogued, appropriately-housed collection of approximately 11,600 architectural photographs previously gathered in a disorganized, uncatalogued group of over 15,000 images that had suffered from inappropriate storage conditions and neglect. The project is proceeding toward its goal according to a schedule that consists of four phases, namely: curatorial organization, conservation, cataloguing, and digital
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access.
AgNIC: AgNIC is an Internet portal to agricultural information that provides both subject content and expertise in agricultural topics. Staff at the Albert R. Mann Library, Cornell University, worked with the National Agricultural Library to develop a new technical infrastructure for a consortium of land-grant institutions. The new infrastructure improves the functionality, interoperability, and public interface for the more than 25 institutions participating in the alliance. http://www.agnic.org/
Cornell Institute for Digital Collections (CIDC): CIDC is a cross-disciplinary team established to explore the use of emerging technologies in providing greater access to cultural and scientific collections. Digital imaging has enabled CIDC to make many of Cornell University's rare and fragile collections available through the World Wide Web. Partnerships with academic institutions, museums, corporations, and libraries -- national and international -- have permitted CIDC to create digital collections from around the world. CIDC represents a unique collaboration among curatorial, instructional, research, technical, and managerial experts. It develops digital resources and supports their campus-wide use. CIDC also conducts applied research to test and evaluate the utility of such resources for the Cornell community as well as diverse global audiences. http://cidc.library.cornell.edu/about/index.htm
CTHEORY Multimedia: CTHEORY Multimedia is a new media site for electronic art projects and new media theory. The site complements CTHEORY, an existing electronic review of theory, culture, and society. CTHEORY Multimedia aims to achieve status as a premiere site of new media art and analysis. The Cornell Library is providing staff and systems necessary to publish and maintain networked availability of the CTHEORY Multimedia site.
Development of a Distributed Digital Library of Mathematical Monographs: This collaborative project of the University of Michigan Library, Cornell University Library and the State and University Library Gottingen was funded by the National Science Foundation and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. In the course of this project we will develop a realistic interoperable mechanism capable of unifying a single type of resource (retrodigitized books) within a single discipline (mathematics) across multiple access systems at multiple institutions. After a thorough evaluation of the effects and benefits, the system, if successful, will be maintained by the three libraries to allow users to access and exploit these collections in a new and more efficient way.
Frick Project: The Cornell University Library and the Frick Art Reference Library in New York City were engaged in a collaborative project to create compatible databases of digital images from the study collections of the two institutions. The planning phase of this project began in spring, 1999 and included choosing materials from the collections, identifying media types and
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formats, determining the scanning requirements of the materials, producing sample digitized images, choosing appropriate and compatible database fields, and creating a test database. The Frick project has ended; the A.D. White Photo Collection project continues these efforts.
IMAG/CU Software Project: IMAG/CU is a shared university image catalog that incorporates collections from the Johnson Art Museum, the Rare and Manuscripts Collection of the Cornell University Library, the History of Art Slide Collection, and the Architecture, Art and Planning Slide Collection. CIDC will develop and administer the Website using the museum collection management system Multi Mimsy 2000. CIDC has committed to this project for the next 4 years. It is hoped that searching this database will be compatible with other databases in the Cornell University Library system and the online catalog. http://cidc.library.cornell.edu/gateway.htm
Institute of Museum and Library Services Project (2000 National Leadership Grants for Libraries, Preservation or Digitization Awards): This two year project will digitize the core historical literature of home economics; explore integration with the Library's online catalog and interoperability with existing digital repositories at Cornell; and define a set of model workflows for capturing metadata for access and preservation of digital materials.
Museum Educational Site Licensing Project: MESL allows members of the Cornell community to view a collection of nearly 9,000 images selected from seven museums and institutions across the United States. http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/MeslatCU/
Museum On-Line Project: The Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences, and Cornell University Library are in the process of creating digital representations of the 27,000+ works housed in the museum. The project has begun with the works on paper, the heart of the museum's holdings. This project builds on the work already undertaken by the University's Digital Access Coalition to integrate digital visual materials into Cornell's curriculum; the project hopes to promote the active integration and use of digital museum images in the University's teaching. Descriptions of the project can be found at http://cidc.library.cornell. edu/gateway.htm and http://www.museum.cornell.edu/HFJ/about/digit.html.
On-Demand Scanning Service/Feasibility Study: With increasing demand from researchers and with the recent installation of a high-resolution digital camera within the Library, a feasibility study researching the need for and methods of providing an on-demand scanning service campuswide is currently being conducted.
Plantations Project: CIDC staff and the Cornell Human Computer Interaction Group will assist the Cornell Plantations in the systematic employment of digital technology to integrate taxonomic and historical data with real-time field study. This project will expand public and academic access to this important botanical collection, enhancing its usability, linking it to
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related collections, and testing hand-held and wireless devices for field study and public touring. Preliminary planning has begun on a pilot project to improve access to scientific specimens and historical data held by the L. H. Bailey Hortorium, linking this data to the developing Plantations database. http://www.plantations.cornell.edu/
Preserving Cornell's Digital Image Collection: The Cornell University Library is completing an IMLS funded project, "Preserving Cornell's Digital Image Collections: Implementing an Archiving Strategy," to plan and implement an archiving solution for its digital image collections. These collections, consisting of over 2.5 million images, have been created through a series of projects over the last decade. The project will conclude with the development of recommendations and guidelines for the creation of a central depository for digital image materials. For more information, see http://www.library.cornell.edu/imls/.
Project Euclid: Project Euclid is Cornell's principle electronic publishing initiative whose mission is to advance affordable scholarly communication in the field of theoretical and applied mathematics and statistics. The end result should be the creation of a vibrant online information community that is based on a healthy balance of commercial enterprises, scholarly societies, and independent publishers. Project Euclid's goal is to help independent publishers in making the transition to the online environment in a way that will help them stay competitive with the large commercial journals. Euclid will comply with the Open Archive Initiative. This cooperative venture between the Cornell University Library and Duke University Press is funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. http://euclid.library.cornell.edu/project/
Project PRISM: Funded by a DLI2 grant, Project Prism is a four-year collaborative effort between the Cornell University Library and Cornell's Computer Science Department to investigate and develop policies and mechanisms needed for information integrity in the context of a distributed, component-based library architecture. The key research areas include long term survivability of digital information, reliability of information resources and services, interoperability, security (the privacy rights of users of information and the intellectual property rights of content creators), and metadata that makes it possible to ensure information integrity in digital libraries. http://prism.cornell.edu/main.htm
Projecting America: A project being conducted jointly by the Cornell University Library and several other Cornell University departments and offices that aims to develop a thematic collection (initially based on 10,000 slides) to support wide-ranging instruction in the area of American Studies. The project is being designed to allow integration with the results of a coordinated effort at Yale University and several other institutions (Imaging America).
Risk Assessment Project: The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) sponsored
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a risk assessment study conducted by Cornell University Library in 1999 that focused on the file format risks inherent in migration as a preservation strategy for digital materials. The report is available from CLIR at http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub93abst.html
Saganet: Scholars and researchers worldwide will be able to access online full texts/images of Icelandic sagas and epics, handwritten and printed. This large scale digital collection has been created through the combined efforts of the National and University Library of Iceland, the Arni Magnusson Institute in Iceland, and Cornell University Library, which owns the Fiske Icelandic Collection.
TEEAL (The Essential Electronic Agricultural Library): The result of an historic cooperation between the Rockefeller Foundation, Cornell University's Albert R. Mann Library, and leading scientific publishers. This electronic library contains the full text -- complete with all graphics and illustrations -- of 130 agricultural journals, stored on compact disk. Designed to support agricultural research in regions where there is an urgent need for increased food production, TEEAL is being made available to 108 of the lowest income food deficit countries (as listed in the World Bank's 1996 World Development Report).
III. Digital Library Publications and Other Documents (Publicly Accessible)
A. Reports, Books, Guides:
Abundance, Attention, and Access: Of Portals and Catalogs. Sarah E. Thomas (October 2000). ARL Newsletter, 212. http://www.arl.org/newsltr/212/portal.html
Digital Imaging for Libraries and Archives. Anne R. Kenney and Stephen Chapman (June, 1996). A guide to the use of digital imaging which won the 1997 Leland Prize from the Society of American Archivists for "writing of superior excellence and usefulness in the field of archival history, theory, or practice." http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/dila.html
Digital to Microfilm Conversion: A Demonstration Project 1994-1996. Final Report to the National Endowment for the Humanities PS-20781-94. Anne R. Kenney, Principal Investigator. Cornell University Library, Department of Preservation and Conservation, Ithaca, NY 14853. http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/com/comfin.html
Digital Resolution Requirements for Replacing Text-Based Material: Methods for Benchmarking Image Quality. Anne R. Kenney and Stephen Chapman, Council on Library and Information Resources, 1995. Winner of the SAA Preservation Publication
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Award in 1996 for "writing of superior excellence and usefulness," this tutorial proposes a way to estimate resolution requirements for the digital conversion of texts. The authors discuss attributes of documents to be preserved, suggest guidelines for scanning source documents, and conclude with recommendations for the use of digital technology to convert paper and film-based materials. http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub53.html
D-Lib Magazine: D-Lib Magazine is the leading electronic journal for reports on innovation and research in digital libraries. It is published monthly by the Corporation for National Research Initiatives under a grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Peter Hirtle, Associate Director of the Cornell Institute for Digital Collections, serves as Associate Editor of the journal. http://www.dlib.org
Illustrated Book Study: Digital Conversion Requirements of Printed Illustrations. Anne R. Kenney and Louis H. Sharpe II with Barbara Berger, Rick Crowhurst, D. Michael Ott, and Allen Quirk (July, 1999). Report to the Library of Congress Preservation Directorate. Contract # IN97C-22/97CLCCT7021. Contractors: Cornell University Library, Department of Preservation and Conservation, Ithaca, NY; Picture Elements, Inc., Berkeley, CA. http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/ill_bk_cover.htm
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: A Vision for the Future. Claire M. Germain (March 2000). 4 AALL Spectrum 28. http://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/library/Faculty_Services/facbib/
Moving Theory Into Practice. Anne R. Kenney and Oya Y. Rieger (April, 2000). This new publication from RLG is a self-help reference for libraries and archives that choose to reformat cultural resources to digital image form. For further information see http://www. rlg.org/preserv/mtip2000.html
Moving Theory into Practice: Digital Imaging Tutorial: This tutorial offers base-level information on the use of digital imaging to convert and make accessible cultural heritage materials. The tutorial consists of sections encompassing all the major aspects of digital imaging and it is designed to be self-guided and self-paced, and includes frequent "reality checks" for evaluating the understanding of the presented material. Most sections are heavily illustrated, and provide suggestions for further reading. Produced with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the tutorial is currently available in English, with a Spanish language version to be available in early 2001, funded by the Council on Library and Information Resources. The Scout Report (http://scout.cs.wisc. edu) featured the tutorial in its November 2000 issue and commented that it "provides easily-accessible information that should be of increasing interest to anyone involved with
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digital publication and archiving of existing works." http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/tutorial/
Preserving Cornell's Digital Image Collections: Implementing an Archival Strategy: a Web site under development, includes various reports and documents and will include recommendations for archival policies for digital projects. For further information see http://www.library.cornell.edu/imls/
RLG DigiNews: To meet the demand for timely news and analysis, the Library's Preservation department produces and edits this bimonthly electronic newsletter for the Research Libraries Group, with partial funding from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). Its original purpose, which is to disseminate up-to-date and practical digital imaging information to cultural and educational institutions, was extended in January 2000 to include digital preservation. http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews
Using Kodak Photo CD Technology for Preservation and Access: A Guide for Librarians, Archivists, and Curators. Anne R. Kenney and Oya Y. Rieger (May, 1998). Department of Preservation and Conservation, Cornell University Library for the New York State Education Department, Program for the Conservation and Preservation of Library Materials. http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/kodak/cover.htm
B. Presentations:
Building a Digital Library. H. Thomas Hickerson, Cornell University & Cheryl Wright, Sun Microsystems (October 2000). Presented at Educause 2000, Nashville, TN. http://www.library.cornell.edu/dlit/presentations/contents.htm
The Catalog as Portal to the Internet. Sarah E. Thomas (November, 2000). Paper presented at the Library of Congress' Bicentennial Conference on Bibliographic Control for the New Millennium, Washington, DC. http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/bibcontrol/ thomas_paper.html. Also available in cybercast: http://lcweb.loc.gov/locvideo/catalog/ bibcontrol/thomas/thomas.html
Digital Library Development 1990-2010. H. Thomas Hickerson (July 2000). Presented at Sun Microsystem's Global Education and Research Conference 2000, Tokyo, Japan. http://www.library.cornell.edu/dlit/presentations/contents.htm
Mainstreaming Digital Services. H. Thomas Hickerson (April 2000). Paper presented to the Digital Library Federation Forum, Atlanta, GA.
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Redesign of Library Workflows: Experimental Models for Electronic Resource Description. Karen Calhoun (November, 2000). Paper presented at the Library of Congress' Bicentennial Conference on Bibliographic Control for the New Millennium, Washington, DC. http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/bibcontrol/calhoun_paper.html. Also available in cybercast: http://lcweb.loc.gov/locvideo/catalog/bibcontrol/calhoun/calhoun.html
Scientific Communities: Evolving Options Online. H. Thomas Hickerson (December 2000). Presented at the Coalition for Networked Information Fall 2000 meeting, San Antonio, TX. http://www.library.cornell.edu/dlit/presentations/contents.htm
C. Announcements:
Sun Center of Excellence for Digital Libraries: The Cornell University Library and Sun Microsystems have established a new partnership. Through this collaboration, The Sun Center of Excellence for Digital Libraries, Cornell and Sun will work together to establish a transformative vision for research libraries in the digital age. The combination of Sun's broad leadership in Internet technologies and the experience and leadership of the Cornell University Library in the innovative application of these technologies makes this an ideal partnership. Visit http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/June00/sun.library.rel.html for the June 27, 2000 press release describing this partnership.
IV. Challenges
Address the challenge of managing and distributing access to digital sound and moving images in a comparable manner to our current support for text-based materials. Sound and moving image processing and network dissemination is the next major challenge for Cornell´s digital library. The size of sound and video collections presents storage, processing, and distribution challenges. A pilot implementation for music distribution and support for classroom instruction has been installed. The installation has been operating smoothly and student use was supported during the fall 2000 semester. The next step in the challenge will be to accompany digital audio with digital scores and performances, further enhancing the ability to create music digitally by Cornell faculty and students.
Develop functional interoperability for integrated access to our various digital collections. A major step in developing functional interoperability and integrated access across CUL's digital collections has been achieved by making the Core Historical Literature of Agriculture digital collection accessible using the same hardware and software platforms as that used with the Making of America digital collection. In addition, an NSF/DFG sponsored project (see
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'Development of a Distributed Digital Library of Mathematical Monographs' under Projects above) is underway that seeks to integrate search capabilities across digital mathematical monographs held cross-institutionally and cross-nationally (Cornell University, University of Michigan, and Goettingen University in Germany).
Develop our new partnership with Sun Microsystems. Cornell University Library was recently named Sun Center of Excellence for Digital Libraries (see under Grants above). This partnership will allow the Library to explore the use of Sun Ray technologies, as well as newer technologies as they emerge. In turn, CUL will provide Sun with information relevant to the development of these new technologies. This synergistic relationship will provide new challenges, but will also enable great growth in the development of digital libraries.
Developing an infrastructure for the electronic publishing of journals and expand electronic publishing at Cornell. A plan for a joint project between the Cornell University Library and Cornell University Press is being developed to broaden the use of electronic publishing for press publications and to potentially apply this same approach to other scholarly communication generated at Cornell. The Library has recently entered into an agreement to provide the production services (staff and resources) to publish CTHEORY Multimedia (see under Projects above), furthering the Library's development in the realm of electronic publishing.
Establishing common preservation metadata standards. This challenge is being addressed by the Preserving Cornell's Digital Image Collections project.
Long term preservation and access of digital information. This challenge is being embraced in Project PRISM.
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