Final Report for the
IMLS Digital Collections & Content Project   

TABLE of CONTENTS

1. Title Page & Credits [.pdf/16KB]
    
2. Executive Summary [.pdf/42KB]
    
3. Collection Research [.pdf/144KB]
    
   1. Evolution of Collection-Level Description
   2. Collection Identity in IMLS Community
   3. Trends in Metadata Practices among IMLS DCC Registry Participants
   4. Diffusion of Metadata Practices in the IMLS Community


4. Content and Use [.pdf/906KB]
    
   1. Report on Repository Workflows, Database Structures, and Software Architectures
   2. Summary of Findings Regarding LSTA Projects
   3. Summary of Collection Registry Searches
   4. Integrating Interface Design and Usability Into Ongoing Development


5. What's Next for the IMLS Collection Registry & Item-Level Metadata Repository? [.pdf/34KB]
    
6. Appendices
   1. GEM Final Report [.pdf/1577KB]
       
   2. Chronology [.pdf/980KB]
       
   3. Research Methods [.pdf/19KB]
       
   4. Usage Log Analysis [.pdf/52KB]
       
   5. Metadata Roundtable Activity Report [.pdf/31KB]
       
   6. Website Screenshots [.pdf/780KB]
       
    
7. Practicum Papers
    
   1. Chilana, Parmit. Practicum Final Report: Metadata Reprocessing Techniques. Summer 2006. [.pdf/242KB]
       
   2. Hswe, Patricia. Metadata Augmentation. Summer 2007. [.pdf/240KB]
       
   3. Ross, Geoff. Independent Study Paper: how can the DCC project make the content in the IMLS National Leadership Grant collections more accessible to teachers of K-12 students? Spring 2006. [.pdf/50KB]
       
   4. Urban, Richard. Collections Understanding and the IMLS Digital Collection Registry. Fall 2005.
       


8. Published Papers
    
   1. Timothy W. Cole, Thomas G. Habing, Muriel Foulonneau (2007). “An OAI-PMH Based Thumbnail Capture & Delivery Service.” Poster presented at CERN workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication (OAI5). Geneva, Switzerland, April 18-20, 2007. [.pdf/94KB]
       
   2. Muriel Foulonneau, Timothy W. Cole, Thomas G. Habing, Sarah L. Shreeves (2005). “Using Collection Descriptions to Enhance an Aggregation of Harvested Item-Level Metadata.” In Proceedings of the Fifth ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries [Denver, June 7–11]. New York, Association for Computing Machinery (2005): 32-41. [.pdf/1045KB}
       
   3. Muriel Foulonneau and Timothy W. Cole (2005). “Strategies for reprocessing aggregated metadata.” In Andreas Rauber, Stavros Christodoulakis, and A Min Tjoa (Ed.) 9th European Conference on Digital Libraries, ECDL 2005, September 18-23, 2005, Vienna, Austria. Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 3652 (2005). Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag: 290 - 301. [.pdf/80KB}
       
   4. Carole L. Palmer, Ellen M. Knutson, Michael Twidale, Oksana Zavalina (2006). “Collection Definition in Federated Digital Resource Development.” In Proceedings of the 69th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. Vol. 43. Austin, TX. (Preprint) [.pdf/111KB]
       
   5. Oksana Zavalina (2007). “Collection-Level User Searches in Federated Digital Resource Environment.” In Proceedings of the 70th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. Vol. 44. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (Preprint) [.pdf/75KB]
       
   6. Carole L. Palmer, Oksana Zavalina, Megan Mustafoff (2007). "Trends in Metadata Practices: A Longitudinal Study of Collection Federation." In Ray Larson, Edie Rasmussen, Shigeo Sugimoto and Elaine Toms (Ed.) Proceedings of the 7th ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, p.386-395. (Preprint) [.pdf/104KB]
       
   7. Amy S. Jackson, Myung-Ja Han, Kurt Groetsch, Megan Mustafoff, Timothy W. Cole (2008). “Dublin Core Metadata Harvested through OAI-PMH” in Journal of Library Metadata. Vol. 8 no.1. (Preprint) [.pdf/173KB]

The material in this report is based upon work supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under IMLS National Leadership Grant Award No. LG-02-02-0281. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

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