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1 TABLE OF CONTENTS University f Michigan Reprt t the Digital Library Federatin Octber, 2004 Vlume 5, Number 1. Fall i. Cllectins, services, and systems ii. Prjects and prgrams iii. Specific digital library challenges iv. Digital library publicatins, plicies, wrking papers, and ther dcuments I. Cllectins, services, and systems A. Cllectins Michigan Cunty Histries and Atlases The Michigan Cunty Histries cllectin is a cllabrative effrt f Michigan's Cuncil f Library Directrs. The cllectin is prjected t prvide access t 192 histries dating frm 1866 t There are 195 vlumes in 164 titles currently nline. The cllectin is made pssible, in part, thrugh a generus Library Services and Technlgy Act (LSTA) grant. LLMC-Digital The Schlarly Publishing Office (SPO) is partnering with the Law Library Micrfilm Cnsrtium (LLMC) t prduce LLMC-Digital. LLMC is a nn-prfit cperative serving member libraries' needs fr preservatin, space recvery, and cllectin develpment n film and n-line. In its first 27 years f peratin, it filmed ver 7,500 titles, sme 90,000 vlumes, f interest t researchers in law and histry. Its backfile

2 cmprises the wrld's largest cllectin f legal literature and gvernment dcuments in micrfrm. That backfile, and future filming f sme 10,000 vlumes per year, are being made available fr n-line access thrugh the hsting services f SPO. LLMC-Digital had nearly 4,000 vlumes and 3.4 millin pages nline as f early August LLMC- Digital is currently cmprised f fur cllectins: Cllectin cntains legal titles generated in r fr the British clnies which became part f mdern Canada. Parting frm LLMC practice with mst ther jurisdictins cvered in the Cmmn Law Abrad prject, due t the high interest in Canada within the LLMC cmmunity, this cllectin als includes many titles published pst-independence. The interface includes a specially develped Title-Vlume-Page search, which allws users t navigate t a knwn page r t all nline vlumes fr a title via a drp-dwn list f titles and search bxes t designate vlumes, parts, and pages. Cmmn Law Abrad-British Canada Cllectin cntains legal titles generated in r fr the British clnies which became part f mdern Canada. Parting frm LLMC practice with mst ther jurisdictins cvered in the Cmmn Law Abrad prject, due t the high interest in Canada within the LLMC cmmunity, this cllectin als includes many titles published pst-independence. U.S. Federal-Executive Cllectin cntains all titles ffered by LLMC generated by any U.S. federal department, agency, cmmissin, r ther rule-making and enfrcement bdy dependent upn the executive supervisin f the President f the United States. U.S. Federal-Judicial Cllectin cntains all titles ffered by LLMC generated by any f the U.S. Federal Curts, as well as thse statutry rganizatins, such as the Federal Judicial Center, which facilitate the administratin f the curts. U.S. Federal-Legislative Cllectin cntains all titles ffered by LLMC generated by the U.S. Cngress, its cmmittees and temprary cmmissins, and thse agencies, such as the GAO, Library f Cngress, and the Cpyright ffice, which reprt directly t Cngress. Evans Digital Imprint Text Creatin Partnership The University f Michigan, NewsBank/Readex C., and the American Antiquarian Sciety are cperating in a Text Creatin Partnership t create 6,000 accurately keyed and fully searchable SGML/XML text editins frm amng the 40,000 titles available in the Evans Early American Imprints Cllectin. Evans is the mst significant cllectin f

3 titles relating t the histry f seventeenth and eighteenth century America, and the Text creatin partnership seeks t create enduring digital text editins f the mst frequently studied wrks. NewsBank/Readex is prducing digital page images and searchable OCR (Optical Character Recgnitin) fr the verall cllectin. The standards-based editins created and wned by Text Creatin Partnership will link directly t the crrespnding Newsbank/Readex page images and will prvide a research and instructinal tl f enduring schlarly and instructinal value. Digital General Cllectin We have brught tgether all print materials cnverted t electrnic text int a single cllectin, called the Digital General Cllectin. This cllectin includes materials that have been refrmatted digitally fr preservatin, as well as digital cllectins. The cllectin cnsists f mre than 20,000 vlumes at present, and we expect t add mre than 3,000 vlumes per year. Center fr Japanese Studies Publicatins The Schlarly Publishing Office (SPO) is wrking with the Center fr Japanese Studies t make its publicatin series mre accessible, bth thrugh the Web and thrugh print. The Out-f-Print Bks Online has 38 ut-f-print titles and includes Occasinal Papers in Japanese Studies and the Bibligraphical Series, published by the Center frm 1951 until 1979 and nw ut f print. In additin, a number f Michigan Papers in Japanese Studies nw ut f print have als been made available in searchable and dwnladable frmats. All vlumes may be searched and dwnladed fr free. Users will als sn have the ptin f purchasing a quality reprint frm the Center. In additin, SPO and the Center fr Japanese Studies will sn release the first f a planned series f faculty selected reprints, entitled, CJS Faculty Series: Mtin Pictures Reprint Series (edited by Abé Mark Nrnes). This cllectin cntains prductin materials frm The Effects f the Atmic Bmb n Hirshima and Nagasaki (1946), and the Prewar Prletarian Film Mvements Cllectin, including rare mngraphs, jurnals, censred newsletters and leaflets, and Quicktime films. Encyclpedia f Didert and D'Alembert Cllabrative Translatin Prject This cllabrative translatin prject built by schlars and translatrs arund the wrld nw has almst 200 articles. New enhancements will be released this fall including use f a bilingual cntrlled vcabulary created in cllabratin with ARTFL, revised article metadata and cntent, and new supprt fr crss-references and nn-latin characters.

4 B. Services Services may include user-prfiling services, nline reference services, services supprting interlibrary lan r the use f electrnic reserves. Details belw. Print n Demand The Schlarly Publishing Office (SPO) cntinues t build and expand its print n demand service fr digitally refrmatted vlumes frm the cllectin f the University f Michigan Library. Mre than 560 cpies have been sld, including 93 hardcvers (Only available since May, 2004), since the prgram's inceptin in February An e- Cmmerce system, allwing nline rdering via credit card, went live in late May SPO partnered with the University f Michigan Business schl and Cybersurce t implement the new system. POD is currently an ptin in the Making Of America ( Histrical Math ( and UM Technical Reprts ( cllectins, representing mre than 24,000 available titles. Delivering Library Reserves University f Michigan Web Services, a unit f Library Infrmatin Technlgy, has cllabrated with the UM CTls develpment team t create a tl fr interperability between the Aleph 16 curse reserves mdule and CTls. CTls is part f the Sakai Prject, a research and develpment prject fr creating pen surce cllabrative tls fr use in learning, research, and ther types f distributed grup wrk. The SAKAI prject invlves a cnsrtium f universities frm acrss the cuntry. On demand, the web-based tl queries Aleph's X Server fr items n reserve fr the given class. Frm this, it builds an RSS 0.92 feed that cntains shrt descriptins f each item n reserve, as well as links t full recrds. Additinally, the tl prvides a link t a list f items n reserve fr the curse and library branding via a graphical lg. C. Systems Versin 11a f DLXS sftware released Versin 11a is an interim release that fixes sme prblems and enhances sme features f versin 11. Enhancements include XML/Unicde supprt in XPAT, the creatin f a class fr finding aids, and the intrductin f mysql int ImageClass. We held a weeklng wrkshp in August 2004, with 23 participants frm 13 institutins. A full syllabus, alng with full dcumentatin fr the DLXS system, is available n the website.

5 II. Prjects and prgrams A. Prjects New Prject Annuncements Eighteenth Century Cllectins Online Text Creatin Partnership (ECCO-TCP) A new Text Creatin Partnership, in partnership with the Eighteenth Century Cllectin Online published by Thmsn-Gale. This TCP is similar t previus partnerships fr EEBO and Evans. Update n Existing Prjects Making f America turns 7 years ld. It was a surprise t many f us, but several peple wrte t the diglib listserv t cmmemrate the 7th anniversary f the Making f America cllectin. See and fr the messages. NYC bks added t Making f America Thanks t a nging, generus dnatin frm Lawrence Prtny, a Michigan alumnus, we are adding 19th century bks abut New Yrk City t the Making f America cllectin. S far, we've added abut 280 vlumes. Prtny cllectin Early English Bks Online / Text Creatin Partnership The Early English Bks Online-Text Creatin Partnership (EEBO/TCP) nw has 7,900 bks nline, with added each mnth. The prductin partnership between the Universities f Michigan and Oxfrd remains vital, and has been extended n a trial basis t the prductin f Latin bks at the University f Trnt. Other news: The Jint Infrmatin Systems Cmmittee (JISC) has jined the EEBO TCP. See fr mre infrmatin. The University f Chicag has laded EEBO TCP texts int Phillgic. EEBO-TCP is cperating with the Spenser prject at Washingtn University in St. Luis.

6 There is a new academic advisry grup representing 12 renaissance studies centers arund the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. wh will be helping t select materials and build relatinships within the academic cmmunity. 30 new institutins jined EEBO-TCP ver the past year, including members f the Oberlin Grup and the Cnsrtium f Prairie and Pacific Libraries (COPPUL) in Canada, bringing the grand ttal t ver 120. We have pilted a prject bth fr freign language review at the University f Trnt and fr Welsh language review at the Natinal Library f Wales. MARC recrds were distributed t the University f Trnt, University f Nrth Carlina-Chapel Hill, and the University f Iwa. III. Specific Digital Library Challenges Standards, Prtcls, Best Practices Given the blizzard f new standards, prtcls and best practices, hw d we keep current? Hw d we bring alng ur digital cllectins in ther, lder frmats? Hw d we adapt ur digital library system in respnse? Pervasive digitizatin As digitizatin activity spreads thrughut the rganizatin, hw d we maintain quality? Hw d we identify places alng the way where errrs are likely t ccur? Hw d we wrk with varius departments and rganizatins bth within and utside the library t develp a digital library? IV. Digital library publicatins, plicies, wrking papers, and ther dcuments Halbert, M., Kaczmarek, J. and Hagedrn, K. "Findings frm the Melln Metadata Harvesting Initiative." In Research and Advanced Technlgy fr Digital Libraries, 7th Eurpean Cnference, ECDL 2003 Prceedings, Trndheim, Nrway, August 17-22, 2003, eds. Kch, T. and Slvberg, I.T. Lecture Ntes in Cmputer Science 2769 (2003) pp Hagedrn, K. and Hdges, P. "U-M expands access t hidden electrnic resurces with OAIster." University f Michigan Recrd (March 8, 2004)

7 Schaffner, Paul. "DOST and MED and the Virtues f Sibling Rivalry," in Perspectives n the Older Scttish Tngue, ed. Christian Kay. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2005 [frthcming]. Willett, Perry. "Electrnic Texts: Perspectives and Cmmunities," IN: A Cmpanin t Digital Humanities. Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, and Jhn Unswrth, eds. Malden, MA: Blackwell, [frthcming Nv ]