Browsing MIT Libraries Publications and Presentations by Issue Date

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    • Exploring Variety in Digital Collections and the Implications for Digital Preservation 

      Smith, MacKenzie (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Graduate School of Library & Information Science, Publications Office, 2005)
      The amount of digital content produced at academic research institutions is large, and libraries and archives at these institutions have a responsibility to bring this digital material under curatorial control in order to ...

    • The DSpace Open Source Digital Asset Management System: Challenges and Opportunities 

      Tansley, Robert; Smith, MacKenzie; Walker, Julie Harford (Springer-Verlag GmbH, 2005)
      Last year at the ECDL 2004 conference, we reported some initial progress and experiences developing DSpace as an open source community-driven project [8], particularly as seen from an institutional manager’s viewpoint. We ...

    • When a Librarian's Not There to Ask: Creating an Information Resource Advisory Tool 

      Gabridge, Tracy; Hennig, Nicole; Lubas, Rebecca; Wenzel, Sarah (Association of College & Research Libraries, 2005-04)
      It is 2am. A professor wakes up with a new direction for her research; she must immediately learn about bioethics. In a dorm a student is finally ready to begin a paper on Cuba. Where do they turn? The library web site ...

    • Electronic Resource Management Systems, Part II: Offerings from Serial Vendors and Serial Data Vendors 

      Duranceau, Ellen (Against the Grain, 2005-06-19)
      In the September 2004 issue, I reported on the Electronic Resource Management (ERM) offerings of the major ILS vendors, and promised to follow with a second article covering the ERM tools offered by other kinds of companies, ...

    • Eternal Bits 

      Smith, MacKenzie (IEEE, 2005-07)
      The MIT Libraries is addressing the problem of maintaining and sharing digital content over the long haul with a project called DSpace. For this digital repository, a simple, open-source software application was built that ...

    • Piggy Bank: Experience the Semantic Web Inside Your Web Browser 

      Huynh, David; Mazzocchi, Stefano; Karger, David (Springer-Verlag GmbH, 2005-10)
      The Semantic Web Initiative envisions a Web wherein information is offered free of presentation, allowing more effective exchange and mixing across web sites and across web pages. But without substantial Semantic Web ...

    • Kicked a heading lately? The challenge of establishing headings for buildings and other structures 

      Cuccurullo, Linda (Art Libraries Society of North America, 2006)
      Providing access points for building names is a tremendous challenge for library catalogers. Using Blithewold Mansion, Gardens & Arboretum as an example of the complexities involved in assigning these types of headings, ...

    • MIT's CWSpace project: packaging metadata for archiving educational content in DSpace 

      Reilly, William; Wolfe, Robert; Smith, MacKenzie (Springer-Verlag, 2006-01-20)
      This paper describes work in progress on the research project CWSpace, sponsored by the MIT and Microsoft Research iCampus program, to investigate the metadata standards and protocols required to archive the course ...

    • The Materiality of Digital Collections:Theoretical and Historical Perspectives 

      Manoff, Marlene (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006-07)
      Digital and textual objects are coming under a new kind of scrutiny as scholars are becoming more interested in physical artifacts and their relation to their social and cultural environment. This study of material culture ...

    • User Needs Assessment of Information Seeking Activities of MIT Students - Spring 2006 

      Hennig, Nicole; Gabridge, Tracy; Gaskell, Millicent; Bartley, Maggie; Duke, Darcy; e.a. (2006-07-17)
      The SFX/Verde Group was authorized to complete a user needs assessment in the form of a Photo Diary Study with MIT students in the spring of 2006. The goal of the study was to inform the MIT Libraries of online tool ...

    • Use of collaborative spaces in an academic library 

      Silver, Howard (Simmons College, 2007-05)
      With the design of new libraries increasingly emphasizing support for collaborative activity, librarians need to understand how and why their users are working together in library spaces. No published studies quantify the ...

    • Digital Archive Policies and Trusted Digital Repositories 

      Smith, MacKenzie; Moore, Reagan W. (Digital Curation Centre, UK, 2007-06)
      The MIT Libraries, the San Diego Supercomputer Center, and the University of California San Diego Libraries are conducting the PLEDGE Project to determine the set of policies that affect operational digital preservation ...

    • Automated Validation of Trusted Digital Repository Assessment Criteria 

      Smith, MacKenzie (Texas Digital Library, 2007-09)
      The RLG/NARA trusted digital repository (TDR) certification checklist defines a set of assessment criteria for preservation environments. The criteria can be mapped into data management policies that define how a digital ...

    • The Data Dilemma 

      Stout, Amy; Graham, Anne (2007-11-27)
      There’s a famous allegory about a map of the world that grows in detail until every point in reality has its counterpoint on paper; the twist being that such a map is at once ideally accurate and entirely useless, since ...

    • Future-Proofing Architectural Computer-Aided Design: MIT's FACADE Project 

      Smith, MacKenzie (Editions InFolio, 2008-09-27)
      The FACADE project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the USA is exploring the long-term archiving and preservation of digital data from architectural projects in general, and 3D models and related ...

    • Curating Architectural 3D CAD Models 

      Smith, MacKenzie (UKOLN at the University of Bath, 2009-07)
      Increasing demand to manage and preserve 3-dimensional models for a variety of physical phenomena (e.g., building and engineering designs, computer games, or scientific visualizations) is creating new challenges for digital ...

    • Publishing Practices of NIH-Funded Faculty of MIT 

      Crummett, Courtney; Finnie Duranceau, Ellen; Gabridge, Tracy A.; Green, Remlee S.; Kajosalo, Erja; e.a. (Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 2010-08-01)
      Faculty and researchers who receive substantial funding from NIH were interviewed about their publication practices. Qualitative data was collected from interviews of eleven faculty members and one researcher representing ...

    • A Guide to Architecture in Hyderabad, Deccan, India 

      Khalidi, Omar (2012-02-14)

    • The Accessibility Quotient: A New Measure of Open Access 

      Willmott, Mathew A.; Dunn, Katharine H.; Duranceau, Ellen Finnie (Pacific University Library; Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication, 2012-05-15)
      INTRODUCTION The Accessibility Quotient (AQ), a new measure for assisting authors and librarians in assessing and characterizing the degree of accessibility for a group of papers, is proposed and described. The AQ offers ...

    • Archive and database as metaphor: Theorizing the Historical Record 

      Manoff, Marlene (2012-06-27)
      Digital media increase the visibility and presence of the past while also reshaping our sense of history. We have extraordinary access to digital versions of books, journals, film, television, music, art and popular ...