ICSD - International Conference for Digital Libraries and the Semantic Web

An investigation on the use of social software applications in digital library environments with special attention to the use of blogging software.

Mitchell, Erik, and Kevin Gilbertson. "Using Open Source Social Software as Digital Library Interface". D-Lib Magazine. Mar. 2008. D-Lib. Available from: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march08/mitchell/03mitchell.html.

The Convenors of ICSD 2009 have extended the Papers Submission Deadline to May 4th, 2009.

A document on the development of digital libraries after the first publication of Ariadne.

Dempsey, Lorcan. "The (Digital) Library Environment: Ten Years After". 08 Feb. 2006. Ariadne. Available from: http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue46/dempsey/intro.html.

A selected bibliography on "digital libraries and the semantic web", kindly drawn up by "Biblioteca Luigi Crocetti", Florence (Italy)

An article about repositories in South Africa and the problems related to OA in developing countries.

Van Deventer, Martie, and Pienaar Heila. South African Repositories: Bridging Knowledge Divides. 30 Apr. 2008. Ariadne. Available from: http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue55/vandeventer-pienaar.

Last summer the two providers of open source software for managing and providing access to digital content announced the intention to work on common initiatives serving the open source repository communities. An update on their projects.

Sources:

1) http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/hatcheck/2009/02/17/tomorrow-dspace-and-fed...

2) http://www.fedora-commons.org/confluence/display/DEV/mail/8750043

3) http://www.dspace.org/images/publications/pr_dspace%20foundationfedora%2...

1. Ivan's Private Site -
http://ivan-herman.name/2009/03/06/semantic-web-and-digital-libraries-co...

2. A Library Writer's Blog -
http://librarywriting.blogspot.com/2009/05/cfp-international-conference-...
http://librarywriting.blogspot.com/2009/03/international-conference-for-...

3. A Blog around the Clock -
http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/03/meetings_id_like_to_go_topart_6.php

4. FAO of the United Nations -
http://www.fao.org/kce/news2/en/
http://aims.fao.org/
http://www.fao.org/waicent/portal/archivo.asp?lang=en

5. W3C -

A document on the creation of a digital preservation repository which will be set up by the National Library of France, explaining the importance of RDF in digital preservation.

Bermès, E., Poupeau, G. Semantic Web technologies for digital preservation: the SPAR project, 2008. Available from: http://ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/Publications/CEUR-WS/Vol-401/iswc20...

A report by Greta de Groat, Discovery Metadata Librarian at
Stanford University Libraries, on current and desired metadata tools used for mapping, correcting, and enhancing aggregated metadata.

de Groat, Greta. Future Directions in Metadata Remediation for Metadata Aggregators Washington, DC: Digital Library Federation, February 2009.(http://www.diglib.org/pubs/dlf110.pdf).

Europeana, the European Digital Library, is a digitization project initiated by the European Commission to guarantee access to heterogeneous digital contents.

Online since December 2008, the European Digital Library contains approximately two million digital items (paintings, books, films, archives, etc.) already in the public domain, supplied by different institutions from the 27 countries of the European Union.

The digital resources are selected among those already digitized within archives, libraries, museums and audiovisual archives.