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- Architecture Image ProjectPowell, James (Virginia Tech, 1996-06-10)In the Spring of 1996, a group of Library faculty met with photographic services (the imaging group: Annette Burr, Gail McMillan, Gary Worley) to develop a plan to support the digitization, archiving, identification and long-term storage of slide collections. This group decided that they would launch a pilot project during the summer. Photographic Services would scan 200 slides place them on a server in Scholarly Communications. SCP staff would design and implement a prototype workflow, storage, retrieval and annotation mechanism using a metadata scheme developed by this group. This document describes a preliminary proposal for implementing the requested prototype. The system must be fully in place by late summer 1996 so that teaching faculty can use it to develop course materials for the fall.
- Digital Libraries and Software AgentsPowell, James (Virginia Tech, 1997)Digital libraries will need digital, or software, agents to perform many important tasks such as communication with the user, acquisition of new information and maintenance of the links to that information (assuming that it is external to the structure of the digital library). Fortunately software agents are a diverse breed and there are many different types of agents which can be used to perform those tasks.
- Online Course Materials: Electronic ReservePowell, James (Virginia Tech, 1996-09-11)Course Materials Online: Connecting the classroom with the library
- Report of the Scholarly Communications Task ForceMcMillan, Gail; Metz, Paul; Powell, James; Zarnosky, Maggie (Virginia Tech, 1994-05-10)This report was distributed at the May 12th meeting of the Library Administrative Council (LAC) and put on the agenda for discussion at its next meeting. On May 19, 1994 this report was discussed, many of the questions it raised were answered and all of its recommendations were approved for implementation. This version of the report contains annotations (made June 24, 1994), especially to include answers to questions posed, and describes further activities of this task force.
- Survey of Four META-DATA CandidatesPowell, James (Virginia Tech, 1996-04-09)You would have a difficult time finding a resource in a digital library without consulting some type of database that contains descriptions of each resource. The information used to describe a book, journal, article or other resource in such a database is called meta-data. There are many formats for encoding meta-data. This document presents one set of bibliographic data describing a single resource in four formats used in various projects related to digital libraries.