Digital Library Development Center at The University of Chicago

What we have said

Partnering with Scholars: Exposing a City's Hidden Collections

June 2007 A presentation given to Chicago area librarians and archivists, based on a presentation given to the Digital Library Federation about the Library's Mellon-funded UNCAP project (November 2006).

EAD 2002: Finding Aid Delivery using Native XML Technologies

October 2004 A presentation given to the Digital Library Federation about the Library's implementation of EAD 2002 and the use of MODS for finding aid discovery via OAI.

Greenstone in Practice

October 2004 Presentation slides and handouts from a LITA 2004 Forum panel discussion on the use of Greenstone in a variety of digital library settings.

RSS: What it is, How it works, How to use it

September 2004 Introduction to the basics of RSS, given at one of the WhereWhat meetings organized by NSIT's Learning Technologies Group.

Creative Commons

July 2004 Presentation slides for a talk given at the American Association of Law Libraries on the copyright issues facing Libraries and how the Creatve Commons offers some solutions.

Recognizing Digitization as a Preservation Reformatting Method

June 2004 Paper written for the ARL Preservation of Research Library Materials Committee endorsing the use of digitization as an accepted preservation reformatting option for a range of materials.

JCDL Chopin

June 2004 Poster for the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries describing method for providing Melodic Access and Title Uniformity in the Chopin Early Editions Music Digital Library

Nand: A New Tool for an Old Problem

November, 2003 Presentation notes for a talk given at the Digital Library Federation Fall Forum about a web-based tool, developed by the DLDC, for searching and browsing collections of data. The talk described the rationale for building the tool, the underlying technology, sample interfaces which use it, and its strategic benefits.

Greenstone

November, 2003 Presentation notes and handouts for a talk given at the Digital Library Federation Fall Forum about the implementation of Greenstone for a collection of Early Chopin scores.

Building Chopin Early Editions

October, 2003 Poster and invited talk from the Fourth International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR 2003) about implementing a music digital library of digitzed classical piano scores.