OCLC Systems & Services: International digital library perspectives: Volume 22 Issue 4

Accommodating consortia within electronic resource management systems: Extending the ERMI specifications

Norm Medeiros

This article aims to identify areas where the ERMI specifications should extend to accommodate library consortia.

Copyright news: Orphan Works and Section 108: reproduction by libraries and archives

Aprille McKay, Elizabeth Yakel

The purpose of this article is to discuss key issues for archives and special collections related to the recent Library of Congress Orphan Works report and Section 108 Study Group.

In our cages with golden bars

Jeremy Frumkin

This paper aims to postulates on the current limitations of digital libraries, and what digital libraries might be if librarians and digital library developers thought about…

Vandals at the gates

Robert Fox

This paper aims to examine issues surrounding digital stewardship and information security with the digital library.

Project risk management

H. Frank Cervone

The aim of this article is to develop an understanding of the issues related to risk management in digital library projects as well as techniques for mitigating risk in these…

Collaborative approaches to designing effective digital image databases for the study of three‐dimensional museum collections

Jeff Trzeciak, Shawn McCann, Matthew Martin

This technical paper aims to define the steps necessary to create an effective two‐dimensional image databases representing three‐dimensional museum objects for the purpose of…

Towards user‐centered indexing in digital image collections

Krystyna K. Matusiak

User‐created metadata, often referred to as folksonomy or social classification, has received a considerable amount of attention in the digital library world. Social tagging is…

2006 Awards for Excellence

Letter to the Editor

Brad Eden