Marie E. Gallagher
ABSTRACT
This demonstration shows the Profiles in Science® digital library. Profiles in Science contains digitized selections from the personal manuscript collections of prominent biomedical researchers, medical practitioners, and those fostering science and health. The Profiles in Science Web site is the delivery mechanism for content derived from the digital library system. The system is designed according to our basic principles for digital library development [1]. The digital library includes the rules and software used for digitizing items, creating and editing database records and performing quality control as well as serving the digital content to the public. Among the types of data managed by the digital library are detailed item-level, collection-level and cross-collection metadata, digitized photographs, papers, audio clips, movies, born-digital electronic files, optical character recognized (OCR) text, and annotations (see Figure 1). The digital library also tracks the status of each item, including digitization quality, sensitivity of content, and copyright. Only items satisfying all required criteria are released to the public through the World Wide Web. External factors have influenced all aspects of the digital library's infrastructure.
- McCray, A. T. and Gallagher, M. E. 2001. Principles for digital library development. Commun. ACM 44, 5 (May 2001), 48--54. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/374308.374339. Google Scholar
Digital Library
- McCray, A. T., Gallagher, M. E. and Flannick, M. A. 1999. Extending the Role of Metadata in a Digital Library System. In Proceedings of the IEEE Forum on Research and Technology Advances in Digital Libraries (Baltimore, MD, March 19 - 21, 1999). ADL '99. IEEE Computer Society, Washington, DC, USA, 190--199. DOI= http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/ADL.1999.777714. Google ScholarDigital Library
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- The profiles in science digital library: behind the scenes
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