This article was first presented as a conference paper in June 2012 at the 12th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital Libraries, Washington, D.C., U.S.A.
This paper describes the development of a course on Digital Libraries taught in Fall 2018 in the Library Management Department at the University of Library Studies and Information Technologies (ULSIT). The instructor, an Associate Professor and Digital Projects Librarian at Oregon State University in the United States, received a U.S....
Can collaborative filtering be successfully applied to digital
libraries in a manner that improves the effectiveness of the
library? Collaborative filtering systems remove the limitation of
traditional content-based search interfaces by using individuals to
evaluate and recommend information. We introduce an approach
where a digital library user specifies their need...
Oregon Digital is a cultural heritage digital library that emphasizes the history of Oregon and, in particular, the histories of the University of Oregon and Oregon State University, the two entities that built the platform. Originally released in 2014, Oregon Digital is currently being upgraded to the latest version of...
Academic libraries play an increasingly important role in providing research data services to faculty and students at universities around the world. One of the major challenges for libraries involves the appropriate scoping of services to meet a broad range of researcher needs. Oregon State University Libraries have developed a model...
This paper uses a collective case study to reveal similarities and differences in the operations and service models of nine distributed digital preservation services. The study uncovers a wide range of organizations and technical variations among the nine services, but finds that they can be grouped into three basic service...
Digital libraries are digitally accessible, organized collections of knowledge. Although under this broad definition any digitally accessible data set might be considered a digital library, the term is generally reserved for collections whose structures are carefully documented and made available in the form of so-called metadata. There is no specific...
These slides present a practice paper submitted to the International Data Curation Conference 2018, with the same title. Data Management Plans (DMPs) are one of the most widespread tool that has been used in the last decade to encourage good data management practices among researchers. DMPs are a preventive tool...