An action research report on the Korean national digital library

This paper presents the results of my action research. I was involved in establishing and running a digital library that was founded by the government of South Korea. The process involved understanding the relationship between the national IT infrastructure and the success factors of the digital library. In building, the national IT infrastructure, a digital library system was implemented; it combines all existing digitized university libraries and can provide overseas information, such as foreign journal articles, instantly and freely to every Korean researcher. An empirical survey was made as a part of the action research; the survey determined user satisfaction in the newly established national digital library. After obtaining the survey results, I suggested that the current way of running the nationwide government-owned digital library should be retained. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

Digitisation at NLF and the National Digital Library

Esitys Bulgarian kirjastoseuran seminaarissa 15.3.2012

Focus on Users – The National Digital Library of Finland

Heli Kautosen esitys Digital Humanities 2012 -konferenssissa Hampurissa 20.7.2012

The National Digital Library of Finland – Public Interface FINNA

Aki Lassilan esitys IFLA-konferenssissa Helsingissä 14.8.2012.

Policy guidelines, the National Digital Library and Europeana

Minna Karvosen esitys Europeana työpajassa 20.11.2012 Helsingissä.

The National Digital Library Finna Among Digital Research Infrastructures in Finland

Heli Kautosen esitys Epics, Digital Cultural Heritage and Vernacular Languages. Corpora and Databases in Oral Tradition Research -seminaarissa Helsingissä 2.3.2013.

The Finnish National Digital Library: a national service is developed in collaboration with a network of libraries, archives and museums

Insight-lehden numerossa 26 (Maaliskuu 2013) julkaistu artikkeli.

Reshaping Digital Library Services at National Level – Why, How, When?

Kristiina Hormia-Poutasen esitys Liber-konferenssissa Münchenissa, Saksassa 27.6.2013.

The Brazilian electronic theses and dissertations digital library: providing open access for scholarly information

This paper describes a project led by the Instituto Brasileiro de Informações em Ciência e Tecnologia (Ibict), a government institution, to build a national digital library for electronic theses and dissertations - Bibliteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações (BDTD). The project has been a collaborative effort among Ibict, universities and other research centers in Brazil. The developers adopted a system architecture based on the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) in which universities and research centers act as data providers and Ibict as a service provider. A Brazilian metadata standard for electronic theses and dissertations was developed for the digital library. A toolkit including open source package was also developed by Ibict to be distributed to potential data providers. BDTD has been integrated with the international initiative: the Networked Digital Library of Thesis and Dissertation (NDLTD). Discussions in the paper address various issues related to project design, development and management as well as the role played by Ibict. Conclusions highlight some important lessons learned to date and challenges for the future in expanding the BDTD project.

Kramerius - Fedora based open source system for a digital library

Presentation at Open Repositories 2014, Helsinki, Finland, June 9-13, 2014

The Tyne Digital Library - Part 4 Datasets

This part contains geomorphological, hydrological and other information concerning the desktop research of the River Tyne catchment area.

The Tyne Digital Library - Part 3 Bibliography

This section consists of a comprehensive collection of bibliographic information covering five important themes to help you with the desktop research of the River Tyne catchment area.

The Tyne Digital Library - Part 2 Maps and Images

In this section, you will find maps showing various important aspects of the River Tyne catchment area. All the maps are drawn based on Ordnance Survey data made available via the Digimap service. For the land cover maps of the catchment area, four variants are provided. Please note that the full details of the intext citations quoted in some of the following maps can be found in the full bibliographic listing.

The Tyne Digital Library - Part 1 Introduction

The Tyne Digital Library (TDL) provides access to scholarly materials (e.g. papers, book chapters, bibliographic reference lists), databases of hydrological and physical information, maps of key physiographic and environmental data, and electronic journal articles, for students undertaking GEOG3023 River Basin Management. In addition, the TDL utilises technological innovations that enhance services for accessing this information.