http://www.oclc.org/programsandresearch/dss/ en-us ©2006 OCLC Online Computer Library Center Topics of interest to the library and information science community Each year OCLC invites distinguished professionals to Dublin to make presentations on topics of current interest. The topics sometimes align closely with research directions within OCLC, but also may represent areas of interest to the library and information science community not formally under study by OCLC researchers. Each year OCLC invites distinguished professionals to Dublin to make presentations on topics of current interest. The topics sometimes align closely with research directions within OCLC, but also may represent areas of interest to the library and information science community not formally under study by OCLC researchers. OCLC Research researchweb@oclc.org http://www.oclc.org/common/images/logos/logo-oclc-en.gif http://www.oclc.org/programsandresearch/dss/ Priscilla Caplan Digital Preservation and the Unfamiliar Future This presentation will review the basics of digital preservation, explore some of the problems that make it so difficult, and outline some requirements for digital preservation repositories. In addition, it will show how some of these theoretical requirements have been implemented in DAITSS, a preservation repository application under development at the Florida Center for Library Automation. This presentation will review the basics of digital preservation, explore some of the problems that make it so difficult, and outline some requirements for digital preservation repositories. In addition, it will show how some of these theoretical requirements have been implemented in DAITSS, a preservation repository application under development at the Florida Center for Library Automation. http://www.oclc.org/programsandresearch/dss/mp3/dss_caplan.mp3 Wed, 16 Feb 2005 09:30:00 EST 1:37:07 no digital, preservation, repositories, archive, library, libraries Gregory M. Shreve, Ph.D. Software Localization and Internationalization: How and Why The growth of e-commerce and the Internet over the next decade will be driven by the expansion of regional markets. In order to reach potential consumers in these markets, companies will have to globalize their electronic documents. Web sites, software interfaces, product documentation and internal communications will be produced in the languages and cultural styles of an increasingly diverse and potentially rewarding international marketplace. Over the past decade, the language industry has emerged to provide these localization services. Localization is currently one of the fastest-growing sectors of the international economy. Internationalization is a related engineering process whose objective is to optimize the design of products so that they can more easily be adapted for localized delivery. In an age when the fast, simultaneous release of multilingual documentation, web pages or software is a corporate objective, internationalization strategies are indispensable. The growth of e-commerce and the Internet over the next decade will be driven by the expansion of regional markets. In order to reach potential consumers in these markets, companies will have to globalize their electronic documents. Web sites, software interfaces, product documentation and internal communications will be produced in the languages and cultural styles of an increasingly diverse and potentially rewarding international marketplace. Over the past decade, the language industry has emerged to provide these localization services. Localization is currently one of the fastest-growing sectors of the international economy. Internationalization is a related engineering process whose objective is to optimize the design of products so that they can more easily be adapted for localized delivery. In an age when the fast, simultaneous release of multilingual documentation, web pages or software is a corporate objective, internationalization strategies are indispensable. http://www.oclc.org/programsandresearch/dss/mp3/dss_shreve_22k8b.mp3 Thu, 9 Dec 2004 09:30:00 EST 1:58:41 no software, localization, internationalization, multilingual, language, library, libraries Paul Conway Institutional Repositories: Is There Anything Left to Say? Paul Conway's presentation will review the hype and the substance of institutional repositories and focus on three critical needs that have received relatively short shrift on the road to viable repository services: defining and dividing the content pie, adding a generous dollop of archival theory, and creating a rich incentive environment at the local level. Against this background of needs, Dr. Conway will conclude with commentary on the irony that only new collaborative models may be able to save a repository built under the umbrella of a single institution. Paul Conway's presentation will review the hype and the substance of institutional repositories and focus on three critical needs that have received relatively short shrift on the road to viable repository services: defining and dividing the content pie, adding a generous dollop of archival theory, and creating a rich incentive environment at the local level. Against this background of needs, Dr. Conway will conclude with commentary on the irony that only new collaborative models may be able to save a repository built under the umbrella of a single institution. http://www.oclc.org/programsandresearch/dss/mp3/dss_conway.mp3 Thu, 7 Oct 2004 09:30:00 EDT 1:24:42 no repository, repositories, archives, library, libraries Jim Gray The World Wide Telescope: A Prototype of the Digital Library As Manager of Microsoft's Bay Area Research Center (BARC), Jim Gray is working with the astronomy community to build the World-Wide Telescope, and has been active in building online databases such as TerraServer and SkyServer. Integrating the world's astronomy data and research literature into an accessible single distributed database will result in the world's best telescope. In this endeavor, Dr. Gray has encountered many of the problems librarians have grappled with for centuries, such as curation, preservation, indexing, access, and summarization. "I don't need to tell [librarians] that the concept of a library is morphing to be an amalgam of text and data all integrated together. The Dublin Core is a major bedrock of this new library, but there are many other parts." Jim Gray's presentation will provide an overview of the World-Wide Telescope effort from the perspective of a digital library, focusing on metadata, schema, curation, and preservation issues. As Manager of Microsoft's Bay Area Research Center (BARC), Jim Gray is working with the astronomy community to build the World-Wide Telescope, and has been active in building online databases such as TerraServer and SkyServer. Integrating the world's astronomy data and research literature into an accessible single distributed database will result in the world's best telescope. In this endeavor, Dr. Gray has encountered many of the problems librarians have grappled with for centuries, such as curation, preservation, indexing, access, and summarization. "I don't need to tell [librarians] that the concept of a library is morphing to be an amalgam of text and data all integrated together. The Dublin Core is a major bedrock of this new library, but there are many other parts." Jim Gray's presentation will provide an overview of the World-Wide Telescope effort from the perspective of a digital library, focusing on metadata, schema, curation, and preservation issues. http://www.oclc.org/programsandresearch/dss/mp3/dss_gray.mp3 Mon, 17 May 2004 09:30:00 EDT 1:33:24 no digital, metadata, schema, preservation, library, libraries