Dean B. Krafft on Building a National Science Digital Library; Brazilian studies: Online resources for researchers
Professional Reading Shelf
Digitization
Source: HP Research Quality Assurance in High Volume Document Digitization: A Survey
"Quality assurance (QA) plays a critical role in high volume document digitization projects by making sure that the specified quality standard is reached under cost and time constraints. This paper takes a systematic view on this issue by summarizing and abstracting related existing work: quality bottlenecks and technical solutions throughout the whole processing pipeline, including cataloging, capture, image analysis and recognition, and error cascading; various strategies to conduct cost-effective QA, such as combination of auto-QA and manual QA, batch QA, special QA user interface, and open source QA."
See Also: A Content Integrity Service For Long-Term Digital Archives
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National Science Digital Library
Source: EDUCAUSE Building a National Science Digital Library
An archived version of this lecture and Q&A with Dean B. Krafft is now available. It was presented live on May 8, 2006. Access is free. From the overview: "Since 2000, the National Science Digital Library (NSDL) Core Integration team has been creating the infrastructure for a digital library of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics resources. That library now contains more than a million resources from approximately 100 collections. In this talk, Dean Krafft will give a short historical overview of the NSDL and describe the current NSDL community and participants. He will then review the technical underpinnings of NSDL 1.0, a library built on metadata harvesting, and describe some of the challenges encountered. For the past year, the project has been working on NSDL 2.0, a new version of the library built on the Fedora repository architecture. For the last part of the talk, Krafft will describe this new library architecture and explain how it supports creating context for science resources, how it enhances the selection and use of library materials, and what these capabilities mean for the users of the NSDL."
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Council on Library and Information Resources
Source: CLIR CLIR Issues
Articles include:
+ Symposium Kicks Off Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration (CLIR's Fiftieth Anniversary Sponsors' Symposium)
+ Libraries: Diffuse and In the Flow
+ CLIR Appoints Committee to Advise on Place as Library
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PubMed
Source: NLM
Search Help: NIH Grant Numbers in PubMed Citations
See Also: PubMed Tutorial Updated
See Also: Wellcome Trust Grant Number Added to MEDLINE/PubMed Citations
See Also: New MedlinePLUS Magazine
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Brazil--Webliographies
Source: C&RL News
New, Brazilian studies: Online resources for researchers
Compiled by Edward A. Riedinger. "[Riedinger] heads the Latin American Studies Library and is professor for Brazilian Studies at Ohio State University. He is also editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia of Brazilian History and Culture (Routledge, 2009) and will be a visiting researcher in the Centre for Brazilian Studies at Oxford University in the autumn."
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