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Digital Libraries

U.S National Science Foundation
U.K Joint Information Systems Committee  JISC
 Beowulf
Dead Sea Scrolls

University California at Berekley - electronic finding aids for archives- Encoded Archival Description(EAD)
http://libraries.ucsd.edu/resources/archives/index.html


Making Of America II - proposed standard of encoding digital objects - Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS)


Cornell Universtiy - digitized American culture and history, audio recordings , rare books. Aim of repository to support the lifecycle of resources
http://digital.library.cornell.edu/m/moa/

Infomine- created by cooperation librarians from several academic libraries . Contains "expert created records and semi automatic and automatic metadata generation of records retrieved by Web crawlers
http://infomine.ucr.edu/

Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) includes multimedia objects that portray fully dcumneted works of art

http://www.amico.org/home.html

ARTstor is a non-profit organization that builds and distributes the Digital Library, an online resource of more than one million images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences. The ARTstor Digital Library also includes a set of software tools to view, present, and manage images for research and teaching purposes
http://www.artstor.org/index.shtml


Digitization , rights management , preservation , metadata encoding