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About the Project Independent Studies and Practicum Papers Documentation (Metadata Formats, Schemas, and Stylesheets) and Resources Presentations, Panels, and Posters: (back to top) 2008 Metadata Interoperability and CONTENTdm (.ppt file) - Amy Jackson and Myung-Ja Han Presented at Midwest CONTENTdm Users Group 3rd Annual Meeting. Indianapolis, Indiana, April 30, 2008. Changes in Interoperability of Dublin Core Metadata Records Over Time (.ppt file) - Amy Jackson and Myung-Ja Han Presented at ALA 2008 MidWinter Meeting, ALCTS Networked Resources & Metadata Interest Group. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, January 13, 2008. 2007 Collection-Level User Searches in Federated Digital Resource Environment (.ppt file) - Oksana Zavalina Presented at ASIST 2007 Annual meeting. Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October 19-24, 2007. Investing in Collection Representation for More Useful Repositories (.ppt file) - Carole Palmer Presented at ASIST 2007 Annual meeting. Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October 19-24, 2007. Aggregating Collections for Access: the IMLS Digital Collections and Content Project at the University of Illinois at UC (.pdf file) - Amy Jackson, Oksana Zavalina, Michael Twidale Presented at LITA National Forum. Denver, Colorado, October 4-7, 2007. Metadata Harvested through OAI-PMH (.pdf file) - Amy Jackson Presented at OCLC Western CONTENTdm Users Group Meeting. Portland, Oregon, July 23-24, 2007. Trends in Metadata Practices: A Longitudinal Study of Collection Federation (.ppt file) - Carole Palmer Presented at Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. Vancouver, BC, June 18-23, 2007. An OAI-PMH Based Thumbnail Capture & Delivery Service (.pdf file) - Timothy W. Cole, Thomas G. Habing, Muriel Foulonneau Presented at CERN workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication (OAI5). Geneva, Switzerland, April 18-20, 2007. A Good Visual Resource Is Hard to Find (.pdf file) - Richard Urban Presented at VRA 2007, "From Fair Use to Fair Trading: Creating a Digital Image Matchmaking Commons." Kansas City, Missouri, March 28, 2007. 2006 Collection Definition in Federated Digital Resource Development. Presentation (.ppt file) and paper (.pdf file) - Carole L. Palmer, Ellen M. Knutson, Michael Twidale, and Oksana Zavalina Presented at ASIS&T 2006. Austin, Texas, November 7, 2006. Overview of OAI-PMH (.pdf file) and IMLS DCC Project Overview (.ppt file) - Timothy W. Cole and Jenny Benevento. Presented at LIS 490MUG Museum Informatics at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at UIUC. OAI-PMH in Practice: Lessons Learned from the IMLS Digital Collections & Content Project (.ppt) - Timothy W. Cole. Presented at Middle East Digital Library Workshop. Held at Bibliotheca Alexandrina, 15-17 January 2006. 2005 OAI-PMH repositories: quality issues regarding metadata and protocol compliance: Part II Shareable Metadata (URLs and ppt file) - Timothy W. Cole. Presented at CERN workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication(OAI4), Geneva, Switzerland, 20 October 2005. Collection level description: Ongoing projects at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Digital Library Federation (ppt file) - Sarah Shreeves and Muriel Foulonneau Presented via video-conference at the Dublin Core Collection Description Working Group Meeting, DC-2005 Conference. Madrid, Spain. September 14, 2005 IMLS DCC Project Briefing (ppt file) - Jenny Benevento, Tim Cole Presented at ALA Annual 2005, Chicago, IL, June 26, 2005 Search Interoperability, OAI, and Metadata (ppt file) - Sarah L. Shreeves Presented at the Illinois Digitization Institute's Track 3 Online and Hands-On Course at the University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, April 18, 2005. Is Quality Metadata Shareable Metadata? (ppt file) - Ellen M. Knutson and Sarah L. Shreeves Presented at the ACRL 12th National Conference, Minneapolis, MN, April 9, 2005. Integrating Access to Digital Content or OAI is Easy, Metadata is Hard (ppt file) - Sarah L. Shreeves Presented at the Visual Resources Association 23rd Annual Conference, Miami Beach, FL, March 6, 2005. Search Interoperability, OAI, and Metadata (ppt file) - Sarah L. Shreeves Presented at the Illinois Digitization Institute's Track 3 Online and Hands-On Course at the University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, March 1, 2005. 2004 Metadata Basics: An Introduction for Catalogers (ppt file) - Sarah L. Shreeves Presented to catalogers at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. November 30, 2004. Metadata Standards Adoption and Knowledge-Sharing [Panel on Diffusion of Knowledge in the Field of Digital Library Development: How is the Field Shaped by Visionaries, Engineers, and Pragmatists?] - Carole L. Palmer Presented at the American Society for Information Science and Technology Annual Meeting, Providence RI, November 16, 2004. Metadata Practices and Implications for Federated Collections - Carole L. Palmer and Ellen M. Knutson Presented at the American Society for Information Science and Technology Annual Meeting, Providence RI, November 17, 2004. Metadata and Assuring Metadata Quality in Federated Digital Collections [poster] (Word doc)- Besiki Stvilia, Les Gasser, Michael B. Twidale Presented at the American Society for Information Science and Technology Annual Meeting, Providence RI, November 14-15, 2004. The Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting and the IMLS Digital Collections & Content Project at the University of Illinois (ppt file) - Timothy W. Cole Presented at the Museum Computer Network 23rd Annual Conference, Minneapolis, MN, November 12, 2004. Metadata Quality for Federated Collections - Besiki Stvilia
Interoperability, OAI, and Metadata (ppt file) - Sarah L. Shreeves
Digitization Training and Metadata: The View from Two UIUC Projects (ppt file) - Sarah L. Shreeves
Basics of OAI (ppt file) - Sarah L. Shreeves
The Basics of OAI: An Introduction to the Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (ppt file) - Sarah L. Shreeves
Current Work in Collection Description and Terminology Services: A Report on Two Forums - Sarah L. Shreeves
Rationale for Interoperable Metadata (ppt file) - Timothy W. Cole
OAI and Metadata Aggregation (ppt file) - Sarah L. Shreeves
IMLS NLG Collection Registry & Item-Level Metadata Repository at the University of Illinois (ppt file) - Timothy W. Cole
The Basics of OAI: An Introduction to the Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (ppt file) - Timothy W. Cole and Sarah L. Shreeves
2003 Tracking Metadata Use for Digital Collections [ppt poster] - Ellen M. Knutson and Carole L. Palmer
Developing a Collection Registry for IMLS NLG Digital Collections [ppt poster] - Sarah L. Shreeves Presented at the 2003 DCMI Metadata Conference and Workshop. Seattle, WA, September 30-October 1, 2003. IMLS NLG Collection Registry & Item Level Metadata Repository at the University of Illinois (ppt file) and Notes for Panel on Future of OAI (ppt file) - Timothy W. Cole Presented at the 4th Open Archives Forum Workshop. Bath, UK. September 4 and 5, 2003. Integrating Resources for Information Discovery (ppt file) - Sarah L. Shreeves Presented at Digital Resources for Cultural Heritage: Current Status, Future Needs. A Strategic Assessment Workshop. Washington, D.C. August 25, 2003. Using OAI-PMH to Aggregate Metadata Describing Cultural Heritage Resources (ppt file) - Timothy W. Cole Presented at the Combined American Library Association / Canadian Library Association Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada, June 22, 2003
Publications: (back to top) 2008 Jackson, Amy S., 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. 2007 Zavalina, Oksana. 2007. Collection-Level User Searches in Federated Digital Resource Environment (pdf file). In Proceedings of the 70th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. Vol. 44. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Palmer, Carole L., Oksana Zavalina, Megan Mustafoff. 2007. Trends in Metadata Practices: A Longitudinal Study of Collection Federation (pdf file). 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. 2006 Palmer, Carole L., Ellen M. Knutson, Michael Twidale, Oksana Zavalina. 2006. Collection Definition in Federated Digital Resource Development (pdf file). In Proceedings of the 69th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. Vol. 43. Austin, TX. 2005 Shreeves, S.L., Knutson, E.M., Stvilia, B., Palmer, C.L., Twidale, M.B., & Cole, T.W. Is ‘quality' metadata ‘shareable' metadata? The implications of local metadata practice on federated collections. In H.A. Thompson (Ed.) Proceedings of the Twelfth National Conference of the Association of College and Research Libraries, April 7-10 2005, Minneapolis, MN . Chicago, IL: Association of College and Research Libraries. p.223-237. 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. 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. 2004 Cole, T.W. & Shreeves, S.L. 2004. Search and discovery across collections: The IMLS Digital Collections and Content Project. Library Hi Tech 22(3): 307-322. Palmer, Carole L. and Ellen M. Knutson. 2004. Metadata practices and implications for federated collections. In Proceedings of the 67th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology , Edited by Linda Schamber & Carol L. Barry. Medford, NJ: Information Today, Inc: 456-462. Stvilia, Besiki, Les Gasser, Michael Twidale, Sarah L. Shreeves, and Timothy W. Cole. 2004. Metadata quality for federated collections. In Proceedings of ICIQ04 - 9th International Conference on Information Quality. Cambridge, MA : 111-125. 2003 Knutson, E., Palmer, C. & Twidale, M. 2003. Tracking Metadata Use for Digital Collections [Poster Abstract]. In DC-2003: Proceedings of the International DCMI Metadata Conference and Workshop p. 243-244.
Shreeves, S.L. & Cole, T.W. 2003. Developing a Collection Registry for IMLS NLG Digital Collections [Poster Abstract]. In DC-2003: Proceedings of the International DCMI Metadata Conference and Workshop p. 241-242.
Independent Studies and Practicum Papers: (back to top) Hswe, Patricia. In Search of Relevance: A Comparative Study of Query Runs in Two Interfaces in the IMLS DCC Metadata Repository. Summer 2007. (pdf) Chilana, Parmit. Practicum Final Report: Metadata Reprocessing Techniques. Summer 2006. (pdf) Ding, Howard. Some results on XML processing in the CIC metadata harvesting project. Spring 2006. (pdf) 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) Urban, Richard. Collections Understanding and the IMLS Digital Collection Registry. Fall 2005. (pdf)
Proposals and Reports to IMLS: (back to top) 2008 Interim Performace Report for Oct. 2007 - Mar. 2008 (pdf) 2007 Interim Performace Report 9 for Oct. 2006 - Mar. 2007 (pdf) 2007 grant proposal (pdf) 2006 Interim Performance Report 8 for Apr. - Sept. 2006 (pdf) Interim Performance Report 7 for Oct. 2005 - Mar. 2006 (pdf) 2005 Interim Performance Report 6 for Apr. - Sept. 2005 (pdf) Interim Performance Report 5 for Oct. 2004 - Mar. 2005 Extension phase grant proposal (2005) (pdf) 2004 Interim Performance Report 4 for Apr. - Sept. 2004 Interim Performance Report 3 for Oct. 2003 - Mar. 2004 2003 Interim Performance Report 2 for Apr. - Sept. 2003 Interim Performance Report 1 for Oct. 2002 - Mar 2003 2002 Original grant proposal (2002)
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