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DSpace Digital Archive

• One of the foundation papers in distributed DLs, was also a basis for Dienst. "Read this first." A Framework for Distributed Digital Object Services, by Robert Kahn and Robert Wilensky http://www.cnri.reston.va.us/k-w.html
• The Warwick Framework, container architecture for metadata: http://cs-tr.cs.cornell.edu:80/Dienst/UI/2.0/Describe/ncstrl.cornell/TR96-1593 http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july96/lagoze/07lagoze.html
• Key Concepts in the Architecture of the Digital Library by William Y. Arms http://www.dlib.org/dlib/July95/07arms.html
• The Open Archives Initiative is an organization dedicated to making archives of electronically-submitted scholarly documents interoperable. For specifics on data formats and protocols see the Santa Fe Convetion documents at http://www.openarchives.org/sfc/sfc_entry.htm.
• An Architecture for Information in Digital Libraries William Y. Arms, Christophe Blanchi, Edward A. Overly, CNRI. http://journals.ecs.soton.ac.uk/x3cites/
• Resarch Library Group's initiative on preservation of "born-digital" material. http://www.rlg.org/longterm/index.html
• Overview of ISO Archiving Standards presented by NASA. The ISO's reference model for digital archives is in http://www.ccsds.org/documents/pdf/CCSDS-650.0-R-1.pdf.
• Titanic 2020 -- A Call to Action research report from CENSA, see http://www.censa.org/html/Press-Releases/Titanic2020.htm
• Good discussion of the relative merits of image file formats for Web and archival purposes: http://www.lanl.gov/projects/ia/stds/ia680120.html
• Survey of the "Archival Perspective" on digital information: http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub89abst.html
• Conservation OnLine, a project of the preservation dept. of Stanford University Libraries. Website has background and useful writing on various topics, including copyright/i.p., digital media, and conventional-library topics. Oriented toward librarians.
• Web Consortium, the reference point for Web standards (HTML, XML, HTTP, etc) and best-practice implementation advice.
• Safeguarding Digital Library Contents and Users Document Access Control , from DLib mag 1997.
• DLib Magazine is an online periodical dedicated to digital libraries. Almost every issue has something directly relevant, it is a treasure trove to browse. (Several bookmarks on this page are DLib articles.)
• Bibliography on electronic pub. of scholarly works: http://info.lib.uh.edu/pr/v6/n1/bail6n1.html.

• White paper on Making of America II, a repository testbed, well worth seeing: http://sunsite.Berkeley.EDU/moa2/
• The latest writing on the Dienst protocol and implementation: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/cdlrg/dienst/DienstOverview.htm
• Cornell's Digital Library Research Group, http://www.cs.cornell.edu/cdlrg/
• Cornell's FEDORA repository architecture: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/payette/papers/ECDL98/FEDORA.html The FEDORA Project Homepage includes IDL spec and downloadable java for the reference implementation.
• Project Prism at Cornell specializes in "information integrity", an aspect of archival science. Unfortunately their website hasn't got any real information on it yet.
• Another take on the Kahn/Wilensky architecture, with some thought to access control: A Secure Repository Design for Digital Libraries Carl Lagoze http://www.dlib.org/dlib/december95/12lagoze.html
• JSTOR , a digital library system and site for retrospective scanned paper scholarly journals. Aimed at replacing bulky shelved collections. See esp. their notes on security/authentication.
• E-Journals at the Virginia Tech digital library project: http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/ Also see the Virginia Tech Digital Library Project
• San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC)'s project in Persistent Archives for Data Collections (technical report). Some good ideas on persistence, modularity and layering, and scalability in capacity and performance. The paper is vague and lacking in detail, however.
• The Storage Request Broker is a component of SDSC's Persistent Archive project above.
• The Open eBook project, see http://www.openebook.org/ a consortium to standardize a file format (based on XML and HTML) for packaging electronic books. They have some view toward preservation and archiving; also may be worthwhile as a dissemination format.
• Many projects at the California Digital Library. See eScholarship: http://escholarship.cdlib.org for example of scholarly-paper submission.
• The Digital Library Foundation, a "leadership organization" operating under the Council on Library and Information Resources. See the DLF website for papers and other reference material.
• The Stanford University digital library group project Archival Repository project is a very similar initiative with a wealth of documentation. See, e.g. the paper on event-driven user notification: http://www-db.stanford.edu/~crespo/publications/awareness/awareness.html Also a report on onsite usage research (apparently conducted at HP): http://www-diglib.stanford.edu/diglib/WP/PUBLIC/DOC59.ps
• University of Michigan Digital Library Production Service Many links to interesting documents, just visit the site. PEAK project, followon to TULIP, relevant mostly for pricing model & rights mgt.
• Lots Of Copies Keep Stuff Safe (LOCKSS) [sic], digital library project oriented toward replicating electronic journals at multiple research libraries to enhance preservation and make up for lack of promise by vendor to keep them accessible. See also news article from Chronicle of Higher Eduction.
• The Long Now Foundation is a private foundation trying to establish a "very long term cultural institution." One of their projects is a library designed to preserve knowledge for 10,000 years and potentially allow re-bootstrapping of technology. The site has a good collection of library and preservation links.
• Science Server is a company with digital library software products similar to what we are proposing, used in other academic/research environments.
• The Internet Archive, http://www.archive.org, is a 501(c)(3) public nonprofit that was founded to build an "Internet library" with the purpose of offering free access to historical digital collections for researchers, historians, and scholars. Not all that similar to DSpace but enlightening nonetheless.

• Op Cit project on reference linking -- useful: http://journals.ecs.soton.ac.uk/x3cites/
• The Handle System: http://www.handle.net/ ...and the technical description: http://hdl.handle.net/4263537/4069
• The PURL System , with a persistent URL demo site at OCLC.
• Harvard's Library Digital Initiative (LDI) chose to homebrew a solution (see slide presentation about it). Also see the LDI Home..
• Special Effects Experiment (SFX), a mechanism to support reference linking between networked resources in a heterogeneous environment. Especially see the DLib papers Part 1 and Part 2. Herbert Van De Sompel develops a method of using a database of parameters for available sources to take a specification of a resource and create a "bundle" of links that are likely to exist.
• Reference Linking: Report from the 1999 Reference Linking Workshop working group, "A Model for Reference Linking". Contains good background on requirements of reference linking.
• Internet RFC's on URNs:
  rfc2141 -- URN Syntax
  rfc1737 -- Functional Requirements of URNs
  rfc2169 -- A Trivial Convention for using HTTP in URN Resolution