The ADAPT project is developing technologies for building a scalable and reliable infrastructure for the long-term access and preservation of digital assets. Our approach uses a distributed object architecture that operates on different levels of abstractions built around grid technologies and web services. Major software components have been prototyped and are currently in use in a number of pilot projects such as the Transcontinental Persistent Archives Project and Chronopolis. Integrity Management (ACE) project. PAWN is a mature software platform that is extremely flexible in implementing centralized and distributed ingestion and processing workflows.
Handwritten annotations in books are an important key to understand how historical readers used their books. ABO aims to bring these books together. It is a digital library that reveals the variety of traces that readers left in their books. These examples were previously dispersed over many different libraries in the world. Yet it is also a digital laboratory, where visitors can work together: ABO has tools to enrich the early modern annotations with transcriptions and translations. ABO seeks to encourage collaboration.
The California Digital Newspaper Collection contains over 400,000 pages of significant historical California newspapers published from 1846-1922, including the first California newspaper, the Californian, and the first daily California newspaper, the Daily Alta California. It also contains issues of several current California newspapers that are part of a pilot project to preserve and provide access to contemporary papers. California’s weekly newspapers will be preserved in a searchable archive as UC Riverside expands its massive California Digital Newspaper Collection (CDNC) to include the community chronicles of political, business and social history.
Crisis, Tragedy and Recovery network (CTRnet), is a digital library network for providing a range of services relating to different kind of tragic events. Through this digital library, we collect and archive different types of CTR related information such as Web sites, videos, blogs and tweets. Various collections about school shootings and natural disasters have been developed from collaboration with the Internet Archive.
The University of Michigan Digital Library eXtension Service (DLXS) provides the foundation and the framework for educational and non-profit institutions to fully develop their digital library collections. DLXS's impressive and comprehensive suite of tools -- including a powerful search engine and an array of class-based middleware -- has for years served as the cornerstone for digital library services and resources at the University of Michigan, including the Making of America collection, the Humanities Text Initiative, and the Library's Image Services program.
The DuraSpace organization provides leadership and innovation in open source and cloud-based technologies primarily for libraries, universities, research centers, and cultural heritage organizations. DuraSpace software and services are used worldwide as solutions for institutional repositories, open access publishing, digital libraries, digital archives, digital collections, data curation, virtual research environments, and more. DuraSpace, DSpace, Fedora Commons.
a cloud-based library full of e-books. In areas where books are scarce but mobile networks are expanding, digital platform provides access to critical educational and reading materials. optimized for low bandwidth environments, easy to use, and will ultimately be available on any device. It is also significantly more cost effective and sustainable than building and maintaining physical libraries. Our content is curated for each site with on-the-ground partners to meet their specific, educational and cultural needs in the local languages.
The METS schema is a standard for encoding descriptive, administrative, and structural metadata regarding objects within a digital library, expressed using the XML schema language of the World Wide Web Consortium.
a hierarchical file package format for the exchange of generalized digital content. A "bag" has just enough structure to safely enclose a brief "tag" and a payload but does not require any knowledge of the payload's internal semantics.
Planets, Preservation and Long-term Access through Networked Services, is a four-year project co-funded by the European Union under the Sixth Framework Programme to address core digital preservation challenges. The primary goal for Planets is to build practical services and tools to help ensure long-term access to our digital cultural and scientific assets. Planets started on 1st June 2006. This website makes available project documentations and deliverables
Carnegie Mellon University, Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Digital Library. More than 3,500 documents from three decades of research into best practices in software engineering. technical reports, presentations, webinars, podcasts, etc.
dedicated to aggregating and cataloging manifestos that fall under two basic criteria: 1) manifestos that focus on the political and cultural dimensions of digital life; 2) manifestos that are written, or are primarily disseminated, online. Each category listed at The Digital Manifesto Archive is loosely organized by theme, political affiliation, and (if applicable) time period. created by Matt Applegate. It is maintained by Matt Applegate and Yu Yin (Izzy)