Browse Faculty and Staff Research and Scholarship - Information Sciences by Author "Cole, Timothy W."

  • Federated search of scientific literature 
    Schatz, Bruce; Mischo, William H.; Cole, Timothy W.; Bishop, Ann Peterson; Harum, Susan; Johnson, Eric; Neumann, Laura J.; Chen, Hsinchun; Ng, Dorbin (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 1999-02)
    The Illinois Digital Library Project has developed an infrastructure for federated repositories. The deployed testbed indexes articles from many scientific journals and publishers in a production stream that can be searched ...

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  • Federating diverse collections of scientific literature 
    Schatz, Bruce; Mischo, William H.; Cole, Timothy W.; Hardin, Joseph B.; Bishop, Ann Peterson; Chen, Hsinchun (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 1996-05)

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  • Findings Pertaining to the Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections 
    Cole, Timothy W.; Jackson, Amy S.; Palmer, Carole L.; Shreeves, Sarah L.; Twidale, Michael B.; Zavalina, Oksana L. (2006-10)
    This white paper details our findings to date relevant to the Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections. We provide sixteen recommendations to NISO suggesting potential ways to improve the impact and/or ...

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  • Is Quality Metadata Shareable Metadata? The Implications of Local Metadata Practices for Federated Collections 
    Shreeves, Sarah L.; Knutson, Ellen M.; Stvilia, Besiki; Palmer, Carole L.; Twidale, Michael B.; Cole, Timothy W. (Association of College and Research Libraries, 2005)
    This study of metadata quality was conducted by the IMLS Digital Collections and Content (DCC) project team (http://imlsdcc.grainger.uiuc.edu/) using quantitative and qualitative analysis of metadata authoring practices ...

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  • Metadata Quality for Federated Collections 
    Stvilia, Besiki; Gasser, Les; Twidale, Michael B.; Shreeves, Sarah L.; Cole, Timothy W. (2004-11-06)
    This paper presents early results from our empirical studies of metadata quality in large corpuses of metadata harvested under Open Archives Initiative (OAI) protocols. Along with some discussion of why and how metadata ...

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