Digital Libraries Research

New Faculty Book Delivery Pilot Project
Tenure-track, visiting and emeriti faculty can now take advantage of a new service. Find a book you want in Barton, click on “Request item,” log into “Your Account” and select “office delivery” from the drop-down menu. The book you requested will arrive at your office mailroom in 2-3 business days via campus mail. For [...]
Published on : Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:40:55 +0000

DSpace Foundation and Fedora Commons Form Working Collaboration
Today two of the largest providers of open source software for managing and providing access to digital content, the DSpace Foundation and Fedora Commons, announced plans to combine strengths to work on joint initiatives that will more closely align their organizations’ goals and better serve both open source repository communities in the coming months. This advance [...]
Published on : Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:06:18 +0000

JulyAP 2008 Workshop: EndNote Basics
WHERE: 14N-132 (Digital Instruction Resource Center - DIRC) WHEN: Friday, July 11, noon - 1pm EndNote is a “personal bibliographic software” package which allows you to create and manage a database of bibliographic references. Your database can be used to automatically generate in-text citations and bibliographies in your manuscripts. It can also help you organize and manage [...]
Published on : Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:41:56 +0000

ACM and ISI Web of Knowledge have new features!
ACM: ACM has introduced Author Profile pages with citation and usage statistics to the Digital Library. The new features provide a snapshot of an individual author’s contributions to computing, and a basic measure of their influence on the field. You will find these pages by clicking on any author or colleague from a Citation Page in the [...]
Published on : Fri, 23 May 2008 14:54:59 +0000

Try the MIT Course Catalogue Pickr
Want an efficient and informative way to select and organize your classes for the upcoming semester? The Course Pickr is is an interactive tool designed to help students organize their class schedules. It was developed at CSAIL by the Haystack Project, and is based on technology from Project SIMILE, a joint project of [...]
Published on : Wed, 05 Sep 2007 17:30:41 +0000

HP and MIT Create Non-Profit Organization to Support Growing Community of DSpace Users
Today HP and the MIT Libraries announced the formation of the DSpace Foundation, a non-profit organization that will provide support to the growing community of organizations that use DSpace, an open source software solution for accessing, managing and preserving scholarly works in a digital archive. Jointly developed by HP and the MIT Libraries beginning in [...]
Published on : Wed, 18 Jul 2007 17:42:01 +0000

JulyAP Workshop: Patent Searching Fundamentals, Friday, July 20, noon - 1 at DIRC
WHERE: 14N-132 (Digital Instruction Resource Center – DIRC) WHEN: Friday, July 20, noon – 1pm While you won’t come out of this session qualified to be a patent attorney, you will be able to successfully find patent references from all over the world and know how to obtain patent text and diagrams. The session will be a hands-on [...]
Published on : Thu, 12 Jul 2007 18:08:27 +0000

JulyAP Workshop: Copyright and Scholarly Publication: Retaining Rights & Increasing the Impact of Research
WHERE: 14N-132 (Digital Instruction Resource Center – DIRC) WHEN: Friday, July 13, noon – 1pm Can you use and re-use your own work for future writing and teaching? Or is it locked tight behind a vault of copyright restrictions? This session will help you find the keys to fully realize the potential of your own work for [...]
Published on : Fri, 06 Jul 2007 12:09:27 +0000

Hit the open road with Open Access
What’s the big deal about open access anyway? If I’m writing an article, what rights should I keep? Where can I find out more? Check out http://libraries.mit.edu/open-access to find out what’s happening nationally and beyond, and http://libraries.mit.edu/rights to find out how to retain your rights and increase the impact of your research. Look for these posters showing current Open [...]
Published on : Thu, 21 Jun 2007 18:05:28 +0000

FACADE project aims to “future-proof” digital architectural files
Photo of MIT’s Stata Center by Andy Ryan A $724,415 grant from The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has been awarded to the MIT Libraries to address the challenge of preserving digital Computer-Aided Design (CAD) files. CAD has revolutionized the architectural industry, giving architects the ability to create astounding three-dimensional models.  However CAD models exist [...]
Published on : Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:56:43 +0000

New software from MIT’s Project Simile for creating rich visualizations on web pages: Exhibit
Exhibit is a lightweight structured data publishing framework that lets you create web pages with support for sorting, filtering, and rich visualizations by writing only HTML and optionally some CSS and Javascript code. It’s like Google Maps and Timeline, but for structured data normally published through database-backed web sites. Exhibit essentially removes the need for a [...]
Published on : Wed, 31 Jan 2007 17:09:44 +0000

MIT awarded $1.5 million for research on new search technologies for digital libraries
MIT recently received a $1,500,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for the next phase of a project that promises to create new search technologies for digital libraries. The project, called SIMILE, brings together researchers from the MIT Libraries Digital Library Research Group (DLRG) and the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) to [...]
Published on : Wed, 13 Dec 2006 19:36:29 +0000

DSpace and educational technology at MIT
DSpace is featured on a new web site devoted to educational technology innovations at MIT. The Educational Transformation through Technology at MIT site details the commitment, strategy and impact of the DSpace project and features a video interview with MIT’s Director of Libraries, Ann Wolpert, and the Libraries’ Associate Director for Technology and acting [...]
Published on : Tue, 21 Mar 2006 20:46:04 +0000

MacKenzie Smith interviewed about Digital Libraries Research Projects
The Educause web site has made available an audio file (MP3) of an interview with MacKenzie Smith (Associate Director for Technology) about topics such as the Science Commons, governance of DSpace, the MIT Libraries’ investigation of Semantic Web technology via the SIMILE project, grid computing vis-a-vis the SDSC Storage Resource Broker, and digital preservation. [...]
Published on : Thu, 16 Mar 2006 21:18:31 +0000

Piggy Bank: a Firefox extension from the MIT Libraries Digital Library Research Group
Piggy Bank is an extension to the Firefox Web browser that turns it into a “Semantic Web browser”, letting you make use of existing information on the Web in more useful and flexible ways. For details, see the Piggy Bank web site. See also a recent article from Lecture Notes in Computer Science by David [...]
Published on : Mon, 24 Oct 2005 19:31:14 +0000

MIT Digital Library Research Group web site
Interested in following what’s going on with the MIT Libraries’ research group? Check out the web site of the Digital Library Research Group for information on projects, such as CWSpace, DSRB, LEADIRS, and SIMILE. Primary concerns include building a DSpace open source community, as well as research on applications of the Semantic Web and the [...]
Published on : Mon, 24 Oct 2005 19:21:09 +0000