... and digital preservation costs. Design/methodology/approach – The author first reviewed the current digitization guidelines, the OAIS model and provides on an overview of the development PDF and PDF/A as international standards. Then literature review of the uses of PDF/A is presented. The author...

...Axel Schmetzke; Elke Greifeneder; Michael Providenti; Robert Zai, III Purpose The purpose of this paper is to clarify the standards, guidelines, and laws which affect web accessibility for academic library web sites in the USA as well as an explanation of the mechanism by which accessibility...

..., particularly in terms of compliance with web standards and guidelines. Design/methodology/approach This case study reports on the use of a web content management system to develop the new library web site. It describes the move from an existing site, where the main focus was on visual impact to the new...

...Merrilee Proffitt RLG has used METS for a particular application, that is as a wrapper for structural metadata. When RLG cultural materials was launched, there was no single way to deal with “complex digital objects”. METS provides a standard means of encoding metadata regarding the digital objects...

...Morgan V. Cundiff This article provides an introductory overview of the Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard, better known as METS. It will be of most use to librarians and technical staff who are encountering METS for the first time. The article contains a brief history of the development...

... in the Library of Congress’s Minerva project for Web archiving is given. © Company 2004 Online cataloguing Standards Archives The need for a rich XML‐based descriptive metadata standard, such as the Metadata Object Description Schema (MODS), has been expressed by members of the digital library...

... guidelines. The original cataloging fields used were dependent on the fields built into the Dynix Marquis (n.d.) cataloging system, and followed the USMARC tagging schema (see Table I). ENC soon felt the need to expand on the standard MARC fields above, because the MARC fields, while fairly...

... of digital objects and metadata. Among libraries, Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS) is a new but increasingly popular standard; the IMS content‐package (IMS‐CP) plays a parallel role in educational technology. This article describes how METS‐encoded library content can be converted...

...Peter Carini; Kelcy Shepherd This case study details the evolution of descriptive practices and standards used in the Mount Holyoke College Archives and the Five College Finding Aids Access Project, discusses the relationship of Encoded Archival Description (EAD) and the MARC standard in reference...

... a standard method of exchanging metadata. While working with the OAI to develop and test the metadata harvesting standard, we have set up and actively maintain a central NDLTD metadata collection and multiple user portals. We discuss in this article our experiences in building this distributed digital...

...John W. East Many thousands of researchers are now using personal bibliographic managers such as Reference Manager, EndNote and ProCite to access bibliographic databases via the Z39.50 protocol. With the EndNote software as an example, this paper demonstrates how researchers are using a standard...

...Karen Coyle Standards are being developed in five primary areas of e‐book development: e‐book formats, digital audio formats, digital rights management languages, digital rights management systems, and distribution and promotion. Each of these standards has technological, economic and social...

... standard. This article outlines the plan, describes progress, and indicates what further work is necessary to complete the standard. 1. (1) Package file. The package file contains general information about the book such as the title, subject, ISBN, and brief description. It contains...

...George Kerscher The DAISY Consortium created the first digital talking book (DTB) and this is now known worldwide as the DAISY format. The DAISY DTB is the application of existing worldwide standards used to define the next generation of information technology for people who are blind and print...

... information, the profile has been adopted by other governments, both in the United States and internationally. © MCB UP Limited 2000 Information retrieval Databases Standards The Z39.50 protocol evolved out of work that was done in the United States in the early 1980s in a project...

...John P. OFarrell This article is based on research carried out in Liverpool John Moores University, UK. Investigates the capability of three library automated systems to generate some of the datasets necessary to form the ISO 11620 standard on performance measurement within libraries. Gives...

... to a remote server, searching, managing the search response, Z39.50 services, the vendor and testing. As some knowledge of the Z39.50 standard is helpful in the selection process and contributes to an understanding of how a Z39.50 client works, brief descriptions of some of the major aspects of Z39.50...

...Janet C. Erickson The use of Unicode/10646 will increase dramatically in the coming few years for many reasons. Use of the Internet has increased awareness of the problems inherent in the use of multiple character set standards. It has also increased the potential audience for HTI‐created texts...

... resourcing and knowledge of the user. Shows how the Inter CIC Authentication and Authorisation project (ICAAP) has been set up to address these issues. © MCB UP Limited 1997 Libraries Computer security Access control Standards ...