Iowa City Public Library recently completed an eighteen-month consumer health project entitled Expanding Access to Consumer Health Electronic Resources in Iowa City and Rural Johnson County, Iowa. This project included health-related computer classes, demonstrations, and programs and was funded by the National Library of Medicine through a subcontract with the National Network of Libraries of M...

The following authors have contributed to the creation of the DELOS Digital Library Reference Model, a predecessor of " The Digital Library Reference Model " Disclaimer The content of this booklet is the sole responsibility of the DL.org Consortium and does not reflect the views of the European Commission. The DL.org Consortium is not responsible for any use that might be made of the informatio...

In this paper we present ongoing work on speech recognition for the judicial domain, performed in the European project JUMAS (Judicial management for digital library semantics.) The specific challenges for courtroom speech recognition are discussed, and the development of speech recognition systems for Italian and Polish are described. The results achieved on the target domain are presented and...

The Maryland Electronic Learning Community (www.learn.umd.edu) is building a multimedia digital library of educational resources. Now in the fourth year of the project, we evaluate early decisions we made about segmenting and indexing videos. We also discuss an experiment in encouraging collaborative community indexing with a Quick Indexing Tool. We conclude that a broader base of users would b...

The National electronic Library of Infection (NeLI: http://www.neli.org.uk) in the UK is a freely available portal to key evidence and guidelines in the infectious disease field. This paper discusses 5 years of evaluation of the pilot library and how this evaluation informed design of the new library website. The importance of combining qualitative and quantitative evaluation is highlighted and...

The characteristics of environmental data present a challenge to the providers of this type of information. Both the wide variety of data types and the large size that typify environmental data objects combine to make it especially difficult to manage. Digital library technology shows promise for the management of environmental data. This paper surveys numerous environmental digital library and...

Over the last two decades, teaching, learning and research in higher education have developed a growing digital presence. Digital development in the humanities has been slow relative to most other areas in academia, and with some exceptions art and art history have enjoyed slow digital growth within the humanities. Within this environment, the article here presents one collaborative model for d...