Tools for Digitization and Electronic Publishing

While many of these links are a result of digital library projects, the tool kit, checklists and project outlines are useful for embarking on any digital or electronic publishing project.

Archiving and Interchange DTD: The National Center for Biotechnology (NCBI) of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) created the Journal Archiving and Interchange Document Type Definition (DTD) with the intent of providing a common format in which publishers and archives can exchange journal content
Digitizing Images and Texts: Hosted by the Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE, this resource lists numerous sites offering information about capturing, storing and providing access to images in digital form.
Digital Libraries: Metadata Resources: By the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, this site furnishes information about different metadata formats and tools. Metadata are used to aid in the identification, description and location of networked electronic resources.
Digital Library Standards: From the Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE, this resource clarifies standards for the representation and communication of electronic information.
The Digital Library Tool Kit: This paper by Dr. Peter Noerr answers questions about developing, managing and distributing digital content. Issues covered include costs, outsourcing, expertise, staffing, planning, pitfalls, technical standards and protocols, etc. Read the preface and download the paper.
Espere Project: The ESPERE project started in 1996 as part of the UK electronic Libraries Programme (eLib) with UK scholarly society publishers. The University of Nottingham Electronic Publishing Research Group has provided technical expertise to the project since March 1997. It is currently a consortium of learned publishers investigating the technical and cultural issues involved in the development of electronic manuscript management and peer review systems.
GNU EPrints: GNU EPrints is free software that creates online archives. The software was developed as an open-access project at the University of Southampton, United Kingdom.
Guides to Quality in Visual Resource Imaging: Scroll slightly down the Web page to the section titled "Guides to Quality in Visual Resource Imaging." The Digital Library Federation and the Research Libraries Group convened an editorial board of experts to create guides for five areas of visual resource imaging.
Journal Publishing DTD: The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) a center of the National Library of Medicine (NLM), created the Journal Publishing Document Type Definition (DTD) with the intent of providing a common format for the creation of journal content in XML. NCBI encourages the use of this DTD to define the incoming data for PubMed Central, NLM's digital archive of life sciences journal literature
Kepler Archivelets: Kepler, a Digital Library for Individuals, has created self-contained, self-installing software that allows the user to easily create and maintain a small, Open Archive Initiative-compliant archive/archivelet.
NEC Research Institute: ResearchIndex provides algorithms, techniques, and software that can be used in other digital libraries.
"Web-based Journal Manuscript Management and Peer-review Software and Systems": Gerry Mckienan, August 2002: For each system a brief overview, an outline of features and functionalities, a Website, a vendor and contact information are provided.

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