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unusual facts about digital library


Community Cyberinfrastructure for Advanced Microbial Ecology Research and Analysis

The project aims to accelerate genomic research by amassing a large repository of metagenomic data generated by independent members of the research community at large, by developing a custom bioinformatics toolset optimized for cluster computing, and by offering the high-performance computing infrastructure on which to run it.


Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo

It has also supported the strong use of digital information technologies in São Paulo, such as the Academic Network of São Paulo (ANSP), which is the academic Internet provider in the state, SciElo, one of the largest projects of scientific digital libraries in the world, and a pioneering network of virtual research institutes.

Kujawsko-Pomorska Digital Library

Within the framework of Scientific Libraries Consortium of Kujawsko-Pomorski Region, Nicolaus Copernicus University Library in Toruń has started a long-term enterprise of building a digital library called Kujawsko-Pomorska Digital Library.

Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting

In the late 1990s, Herbert Van de Sompel (Ghent University) was working with researchers and librarians at Los Alamos National Laboratory (US) and called a meeting to address difficulties related to interoperability issues of e-print servers and digital repositories.

Sona College of Technology

It possesses an Electronic library with 1820 CD-ROMs and 820 video lectures, sports facilities, stadiums, courts, gymnasium, swimming pool, golf, and billiards, and language Lab, Management Information System.


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Anita Coleman

Anita Coleman is also the founder of an interdisciplinary open access repository, dLIST - Digital Library of Information Science and Technology.

Authors Guild v. HathiTrust

Authors Guild v. HathiTrust (2012) is a lawsuit in which the American Authors Guild claimed that the HathiTrust digital library had violated copyright.

Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf

In 2010, 20,000 of these images were digitised and made available online via the SOAS Digital Library as part of a Jisc-funded project.

Erich J. Kesse

Under Kesse's leadership, the Digital Library Center was awarded a number of grants, including grants for the Florida Digital Newspaper Library, the Digital Library of the Caribbean, the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature Digital Collection, and many others.

International Children's Digital Library

In April 2006, the International Children's Digital Library became part of the newly formed International Children's Digital Library Foundation, a non-profit corporation under the leadership of Tim Browne as Executive Director and original project leaders Dr. Allison Druin, Dr. Ben Bederson, and Dr. Ann Weeks as Directors.

Literary Kicks

Founded in 1994 by Levi Asher, the site has since expanded to cover a wider range of literary genres, from ancient literature to contemporary fiction and poetry, and hosts literary discussions, poetry boards, workshops and a digital library of articles, resources and texts.

Maghreb Virtual Science Library

The Maghreb Virtual Science Library (MVSL) (la Bibliothèque numérique des sciences du Maghreb المكتبة العلمية الافتراضية المغاربية ) provides full-text access to thousands of science and engineering journals and databases to researchers in the Maghreb via digital library portals.

METS

The Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS) is a metadata standard for encoding descriptive, administrative, and structural metadata regarding objects within a digital library, expressed using the XML schema language of the World Wide Web Consortium.

National Library of Laos

Starting in October 2007, the Library has been collaborating with the University of Passau and the Berlin State Library (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin Preußischer Kulturbesitz) to create the Digital Library of Lao Manuscripts (ໂຄງການຫໍສະໝຸດດິຈິຕອລໜັງສືໃບລານລາວ).

Śląska Biblioteka Cyfrowa

The Silesian Digital Library (SDL) was initiated by the founding Agreement between the Silesian Library in Katowice and the University of Silesia signed on July 20, 2006 by Prof. Janusz Janeczek (Rector of the University of Silesia) and Prof. Jan Malicki (Director of the Silesian Library).

The Fatherland

The Joseph McGarrity Collection of Villanova University’s Special Collections and Digital Library contains issues of The Fatherland from volume 1:1 (August 1914) to 6:2 (February 1917).

WDL

World Digital Library, an international digital library operated by UNESCO and the United States Library of Congress.