The Digital Library Federation (DLF) is a network of libraries and related agencies pioneering innovative uses of information technologies and community expertise to extend collections and services.

DLF is a program of the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR).

 

"The DLF Aquifer Metadata Working Group is proud to release a brief report summarizing our Working Group's activities through the life of the DLF Aquifer initiative, reflecting on the impact and effectiveness of these activities, and suggesting some directions future similar initiatives might explore. "

The Board of the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) today voted to merge the Digital Library Federation (DLF) into CLIR as a program of the Council, starting July 1, 2009. The vote follows recommendations by a DLF Review Committee in March 2009 to merge the two organizations, and a unanimous vote of consent by the DLF Board on April 8.

From Cataloging Futures: New DLF report on metadata tools for aggregation

"The Digital Library Federation (DLF) has just issued a report by Greta de Groat, discovery metadata librarian at Stanford University: Future Directions in Metadata Remediation for Metadata Aggregators [pdf].

This report provides an overview of current and desired metadata tools used for mapping, correcting, and enhancing aggregated metadata."

 

 

Yale's implementation of the Vufind opac

DLF Fall Forum 2008: Providence, Rhode Island
1:00 p.m., Wednesday, November 12th, 2008 -
1:00 p.m., Friday, November 14th, 2008

 

 

DLF ILS Discovery Interface Task
Group (ILS-DI)
Technical Recommendation

An API for effective interoperation between integrated library systems and external discovery applications
June 4, 2008

In 2007-2008, the DLF convened a Task Group to recommend standard interfaces for integrating the data and services of the Integrated Library System (ILS) with new applications supporting user discovery. This page gives access to the group's recommendation, related materials, and information on followup activities.

The DLF, and major vendors and application developers in the library software marketplace, have announced a major agreement to develop standardized, interoperable interfaces for basic operations supporting search and retrieval of bibliographic items.

Standardized interfaces that work across different ILSs make it easier for libraries to add new applications, both open-source and vendor-supplied, that advance their customers' needs. Libraries seek interfaces that allow ILS data to be aggregated for indexing and search, that allow
real-time search and query of ILS data, that support customer information and borrower services, and that allow embedding and interaction between OPACs and search interfaces.

The agreement has the support of the following vendors and
developers:

# Talis
# Ex Libris
# LibLime
# BiblioCommons
# SirsiDynix
# Polaris Library Systems
# VTLS
# California Digital Library
# OCLC
# Serial Solutions / AquaBrowser

Rick Prelinger's presentation from the fall 2007 DLF forum.

Abstract:
"There's something very different about moving images. They're expensive to process and difficult to expose to users. They require us to engage with both new and obsolete technologies. They pose mysterious and intimidating rights issues. And they're multiplying rapidly. Special collections and archives are filling up with film, video and digital media, and most born-digital video isn't even being collected. And when it comes to providing access, we're losing the battle.

How can 21st-century archives work productively with these materials without repeating past mistakes? Most importantly, what does the history of archival engagement with moving images teach us about the future of archival access and our relationships with our users?"

This was the presentation where he used the term "embryonic metadata" (though it doesn't appear in the slides).

DLF Fall Forum 2007: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1:00 p.m., Monday, November 5th, 2007 -
1:00 p.m., Wednesday, November 7th, 2007

Radisson Plaza-Warwick Hotel Philadelphia
1701 Locust Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103-6179

"The Digital Library Federation Aquifer Metadata Working Group is proud to announce the release of the DLF Aquifer MODS Guidelines Levels of Adoption.

The Levels of Adoption document is intended to supplement the Digital Library Federation / Aquifer Implementation Guidelines for Shareable MODS Records, released in November 2006 under the auspices of the DLF Aquifer initiative. The Shareable MODS Guidelines represent a record-centric view of Aquifer's goals, whereas it is often helpful to set priorities for metadata creation with a user- and use-centric view. The newly-released Levels of Adoption document describes five general categories of user functionality that are likely to be supported by following specific recommendations from the Guidelines. It attempts to provide additional guidance to MODS implementers in the planning process by documenting what sorts of functionality is possible when certain elements of the Guidelines are
followed."

"The DLF has convened a working group to analyze issues involved in integrating integrated library systems
(ILS's) and discovery systems, and to create a technical proposal for accomplishing such integration.

We hope to engage the expertise and interest of the community beyond this working group, however. Towards this end, we have set up a Wiki for the project, much of which is open to public viewing and comment"

"DLF and OCLC announce the second release of the "Registry of Digital Masters Record Creation Guidelines," available from
http://purl.org/dlf/rdm200705. Created by a DLF/OCLC working group, the guidelines are to be used when creating metadata for born digital or to be digitized materials that have been digitized according to standards and best practices with the intention of including the metadata in the Registry of Digital Masters. The Registry is available through OCLC
WorldCat. "

Concentrating heavily on the 19th century, Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930, includes approximately 1,800 books and pamphlets as well as 6,000 photographs, 200 maps, and 13,000 pages from manuscript and archival collections. By incorporating diaries, biographies, and other writings capturing diverse experiences, the collected material provides a window into the lives of ordinary immigrants

	IBM Cloudscape™ provides a full-featured, robust, small-footprint database server that is simple to deploy and reduces the cost of embedded and Web-based applications.
	Includes a no-charge license with product support available from IBM.
	Runs on any standard Java Virtual Machine (JVM), allowing developers to "write once, deploy anywhere."
	Delivers zero-administration functionality to eliminate the need for a dedicated database administrator.
	Open source code is available on the Apache Derby Project site.
	Read why IBM is open sourcing Cloudscape as Derby.
	Read what customers are saying about Cloudscape.
	FAQ for IBM Business Partners

The use utf8 pragma tells the Perl parser to allow UTF-8 in the program text in the current lexical scope (allow UTF-EBCDIC on EBCDIC based platforms). The no utf8 pragma tells Perl to switch back to treating the source text as literal bytes in the current lexical scope.

WERA (Web ARchive Access) is a freely available solution for searching and navigating archived web document collections. It works like the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine except it also allows for full-text search of the web archive. WERA is a php application based on pieces from -- and now, with Nutchwax replaces -- NwaToolset. The WERA component includes an arcretriever webapp for the fetching of records from directories of Internet Archive ARC files. See the WERA Manual for more on how WERA works, requirements, and installation. For a demo of WERA+nutchwax, see nwa.nb.no/wera. WERA development has been sponsored by the International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC).

The national libraries of Australia, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Iceland, Italy, Norway, Sweden, The British Library (UK), The Library of Congress (USA) and the Internet Archive (USA) acknowledged the importance of international collaboration for preserving Internet content for future generations and therefore decided to form a consortium called the International Internet Preservation Consortium.

The goals of the consortium are:

• To enable the collection of a rich body of Internet content from around the world to be preserved in a way that it can be archived, secured and accessed over time.
• To foster the development and use of common tools, techniques and standards that enable the creation of international archives.
• To encourage and support national libraries everywhere to address Internet archiving and preservation.

This study is an attempt to estimate how much new information is created each year. Newly created information is distributed in four storage media – print, film, magnetic, and optical – and seen or heard in four information flows – telephone, radio and TV, and the Internet. This study of information storage and flows analyzes the year 2002 in order to estimate the annual size of the stock of new information contained in storage media, and heard or seen each year in information flows. Where reliable data was available we have compared the 2002 findings to those of our 2000 study (which used 1999 data) in order to identify trends – recognizing that 1999-2002 were years of relatively low economic activity. The 2000 study is located on the Web at http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/how-much-info/. Note that this – the 2003 study – has revised certain of the 1999 estimates when we have found new and better data sources.

[Introduction to Best Practices Work]:

Introduces the Digital Library and National Science Digital Library sponsored Best Practices for OAI Data Provider Implementations and Shareable Metadata . Includes the scope, structure, and target audience for this document.

[General Competencies for OAI Data Providers]

These are general areas of competency that are necessary before the OAI protocol can be implemented and used successfully. Both data and service providers should be conversant with the issues presented here. In many ways they represent the minimum of proficiency that is necessary to be a ‘good’ OAI data provider.

[Best Practices for OAI Data Provider Implementations]

Best practices for OAI data providers, particularly how the OAI protocol is implemented. Also included are guidelines for some of the optional pieces of the OAI protocol including sets, branding, rights, and use of the about containers. Please note that metadata guidelines (both technical and content based) are included in their own section below.

[Best Practices for Shareable Metadata]

This section presents best practices for shareable metadata, both in terms of technical issues (such as XML encoding) and metadata format, semantics, and content.

Information on the next round of enhancements on OAI lead by DLF and funded by ILMS

Our Online Website Editor will provide simple POINT & CLICK maintenance of your web pages, to create, edit, develop or just update your site via your web browser.

Clam AntiVirus is a GPL anti-virus toolkit for UNIX. The main purpose of this software is the integration with mail servers (attachment scanning). The package provides a flexible and scalable multi-threaded daemon, a command line scanner, and a tool for automatic updating via Internet. The programs are based on a shared library distributed with the Clam AntiVirus package, which you can use with your own software. Most importantly, the virus database is kept up to date .

This module is an interface to the gnome project's libxslt. This is an extremely good XSLT engine, highly compliant and also very fast. I have tests showing this to be more than twice as fast as Sablotron.

<oXygen/> XML Editor & XSLT Debugger

The simple and elegant look of the <oXygen/> combined with the complete coverage of the XML editing features have made it popular in both the corporate and academic worlds. It provides the necessary tools for the document creation and presentation.

The documents can be created and validated against any user defined schema. The smart context sensitive editing saves time and guarantees a minimum number of validation errors. The documents can be published in a wide range of formats including HTML, PDF, PostScript using the built-in or external processors. Developers can use <oXygen/> for authoring document schemas and for editing and debugging the XSL stylesheets needed for the presentation layer. The integration with the document repositories is made through the WebDAV and FTP protocols.

If you have a mixed bag of encodings and entities in your documents, there's a definite order in which you want to approach the conversion task, to avoid having a mixture of Latin 1 and UTF-8 in one document at any point in the transformation.

Variations2 provides online access to selected recordings and scores from the Indiana University Cook Music Library for use by IU Bloomington students, faculty, and staff. The entire collection is accessible from computers in the Music Library. Outside the Music Library, students may access reserve list materials for courses in which they are enrolled.

May be a model for streaming services. 

sophisticated content management system.  selected by penn state library for global web content management system.

The InterParty project is funded under the European Commission's Information Society Technologies Programme (IST), to design and specify a network to support interoperability of party identification (for both natural and corporate names) across different domains. InterParty builds on the work of the <indecs> project, one of whose deliverables was a specification for a Directory of Parties. InterParty is not proposed as a replacement for existing schemes for the identification of participants in the intellectual property domain (e.g. national library name authority files or systems oriented towards the needs of rights licensing) but as a means of effecting their interoperation.