In this poster we outline the types of institutions, metadata schemes, and materials contained in the NLG digital collection projects. It should come as no surprise that MARC and Dublin Core are the most often used metadata ...

In the fall of 2002 the University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign received a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to implement a collection registry and item-level metadata repository for ...

The IMLS Digital Collections and Content (DCC) Project has made progress on a number of fronts over the past six months. After a second distribution of the survey to National Leadership Grant (NLG) projects funded in 2003 ...

The IMLS Digital Collections and Content (DCC) Project continues to make progress on its objectives. Collection-level descriptions contained in our IMLS NLG Digital Collection Registry were released to the National Leadership ...

This white paper provides preliminary analysis of the data we have collected related to collection definition and provides a sketch of our next steps as we continue research in this area.

This white paper describes the template for the collections registry hosted by the IMLS Digital Collections and Content project.

Presented at the DLF Fall Forum 2005 as part of the session titled "OAI FOR DIGITAL LIBRARY AGGREGATION." An Experimental OAI Registry at UIUC of use principally to builders of OAI services: http://gita.grainger.uiuc. ...

Presentation for the IMLS 2006 WebWise Conference in Los Angeles, CA.

New practices are emerging in all stages of biological research, from data collection through dissemination of results. In addition, libraries and museums are increasingly being called upon to become the long-term curators ...