OCLC Systems & Services: International digital library perspectives: Volume 19 Issue 2

The DLF electronic resource management initiative

Sheau‐Hwang Chang

The electronic resource management initiative (ERMI) is one of the Digital Library Federation’s (DLF) active initiatives. The purposes of this initiative are to develop XML‐based…

E‐prints, institutional archives, and metadata: disseminating scholarly literature to the masses

Norm Medeiros

E‐print servers, once the exclusive domain of physicists, have permeated many academic disciplines, and threaten to revolutionize the scholarly publishing industry. This article…

Deciding what to collect

Randall C. Jimerson

Whether working in institutional archives or manuscript collecting repositories, archivists must consciously decide what to collect and preserve. Collecting policies for…

Interoperability in subject searching and browsing

Dennis Nicholson, Ali Shiri

This article is an introduction to the problem of interoperability in subject searching and browsing in distributed digital libraries. The aim is to provide brief advice of…

Recommended best practices for digital image capture of musical scores

Jenn Riley, Ichiro Fujinaga

Like other complex visual articles with small details, musical scores are difficult to capture and present well in digital form. This article presents methods that can be used to…