External Example Collections

Existing Digital Collections

Name + Link	Short Description	Underlying Software
Kurzsammlungen der BSB	Das Referat Digitale Bibliothek ist aus dem Münchener Digitalisierungszentrum hervorgegangen, das die Bayerische Staatsbibliothek 1997 mit Unterstützung der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft als eines von zwei nationalen Digitalisierungszentren eingerichtet hatte. Dem Referat obliegen im Moment drei Aufgabenschwerpunkte: die (Retro-)Digitalisierung von gedruckten Beständen im Rahmen von drittmittelgeförderten Projekten und in Eigenleistung, im Gefolge von digitization on demand und der Digitalisierung aus Bestandserhaltungs- und/oder Sicherheitsgründen; die technische Unterstützung des Aufbaus und der Pflege von Virtuellen Fachbibliotheken, die die Bayerische Staatsbibliothek im Rahmen ihrer Sondersammelgebietsverpflichtungen aufbaut und unterhält sowie die technische Betreuung des Kulturportals "Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online (BLO)"; die Langzeitarchivierung elektronischer Dokumente. Das Referat fungiert darüber hinaus landesweit als Kompetenzzentrum für alle Fragestellungen im Zusammenhang mit dem Thema "digitale Bibliothek".	Diverse
Digitale Sammlungen der BSB	as above	Diverse
NYPL	The New York Public Library (NYPL) NYPL-Digital is your gateway to The New York Public Library’s rare and unique international holdings in digitized form, including: Historic maps Rare prints and photographs Illuminated manuscripts Unusual printed ephemera Sound files and moving images Original art and more Continues to fulfill the Library's traditional mission in the Internet Age to collect, preserve and make its holdings available Connects you to digital versions of increasingly valuable, fragile and hard-to-use originals by offering a ever-growing selection of digital collections Offers many holdings in their entirety, ensuring the virtual equivalent of consulting them in person Organizes holdings via topical or thematic groupings into virtual collections, helping bridge physical (departmental or organizational) separation Maintains current links to related NYPL websites such as online exhibitions, archival finding aids, and e-books Reflects ongoing development and evolution of best practices in the digital environment Results from setting benchmarks and coordinating practices institution-wide for capture, description, storage, retrieval and delivery of digital surrogates	Own development + Oracle + Lucene + ColdFusion
McGill Digital Collections Program	The Digital Collections Program (DCP) is home to McGill Library's digitization unit. Located in the Rare Books and Special Collections Division (McLennan Library Complex), DCP designs and produces digital projects based on the Library's many unique collections. To date DCP has produced more than forty digital projects covering a wide array of subjects including, art, architecture, history and literature, engineering, medicine, maps, music, and urban design. McGill's Digital Collections range from archival inventories (The Moshe Safdie Hypermedia Archive); bibliographic databases (Cookbook Collection, Canadian Olympic Collection) which provide access to items in the collection; image databases (Ramsay Traquair: The Architecture of Old Quebec, Napoleon Print Collection); full-text collections (In Pursuit of Adventure: The Fur Trade in Canada and the North West Company and the Canadian Architect and Builder); hybrid projects like In Search of Your Canadian Past: The Canadian County Atlas Project.
Zentrales Archiv Digitalisierter Drucke	Das Zentrale Verzeichnis Digitalisierter Drucke weist grundsätzlich alle vollständig digitalisierten Druckwerke aus, die frei über das Internet zur Verfügung gestellt werden und einem gewissen wissenschaftlichen Qualitätsstandard genügen. Verschiedene Arten von Druckwerken sind dabei eingeschlossen: Zeitungen, Zeitschriften, Musikdrucke oder "Kleinschrifttum" wie Einblattdrucke oder Flugblätter ebenso wie Monographien oder Reihen. Das Portal konzentriert sich in einer ersten Phase auf Digitalisierungsprojekte im Sinne digitaler Sammlungen oder digitaler Bibliotheken. Die Einspielung von Einzelwerken wird zunächst zurückgestellt und zu einem späteren Zeitpunkt realisiert.	Diverse
JUWEL	JUWEL (JUelicher Wissenschaftliche Elektronische Literatur) ist das offizielle, institutionelle Dokumenten-Repositorium des Forschungszentrums Jülich. In JUWEL werden Publikationen Jülicher Wissenschaftler und Wissenschaftlerinnen gespeichert, erschlossen und der Öffentlichkeit zugänglich gemacht.	DSPACE
Document Server@UHasselt	Research & Publications in digital form, including preprints, published articles, technical reports, working papers and more. A service provided by the Hasselt University Library	DSPACE
VBN, Aalborg University	All research published at Aalborg University is continuously registered in VBN under the following categories: Book or report, Journal article, Contribution to book or collection, Conference contribution and Working papers.	PURE
DiVA - Publications from Jönköping University	DiVA contains theses, dissertations and other publications in full-text from Jönköping University.	DiVA (own development)
Oxford Eprints, Oxford University	Oxford E-prints is a digital archive for research articles written by Oxford University authors. It is a cross-diciplinary archive, accessible to all.	GNU EPrints
PASCAL, Network of Excellence for Multimodal Interfaces	PASCAL is the European Commission's IST-funded Network of Excellence for Multimodal Interfaces. The project is supported by the Cognition Unit and coordinated by the University of Southampton.	GNU EPrints
ORBIT, The Danish Technical University	ORBIT - Online Research dataBase In Technology - is the only official research database of the Technical University of Denmark, DTU. ORBIT provides all information on scientific, popular and educational publications used in research activities at DTU. ORBIT is the central tool for departments, sections and the individual researchers to present their publications and externally funded research projects. The registration interface is accessible to DTU staff members via the link and Campus sign on. The ORBIT search interface gives worldwide public access to information about research and development activities at the University and provides an overview of publications to which DTU researchers have contributed as authors or co-authors. ORBIT also provides the possibility of cross search on publications, projects, department profiles and personal staff profiles. The database includes the full text when available, or a form is displayed, where you can order a copy of the article in paper form via DTV.	ORBIT (own development)
National Library of the Czech Republic	Main aim of DUR is to preserve all documents coming from activities of the university + provide wide access to them.	DigiTool (ExLibris)
THE WARBURG INSTITUTE LIBRARY DIGITAL COLLECTION	The aim of these digital collections is to make out-of-print source material on Medieval and Renaissance studies freely available online. Books are scanned, printed out on archival paper, bound and placed on the shelves. The originals are kept in the Reserve Books Room.
University of Wisconsin Digital Collections	Since its foundation in early 2000, the UWDCC has worked collaboratively with UW System faculty, staff, and librarians to create and provide access to digital resources that support the teaching and research needs of the UW community, uniquely document the university and State of Wisconsin, and provide access to rare or fragile items of broad research value. The UWDCC has also partnered with cultural heritage institutions and public libraries throughout Wisconsin to create digital resources. Resources within the collections are free and publicly accessible online. They are loosely organized into collections that span a range of subjects including art, ecology, literature, history, music, natural resources, science, social sciences, the State of Wisconsin, and the University of Wisconsin. Digital resources include text-based materials such as books, journal series, and manuscript collections; photographic images; slides; maps; prints; posters; audio; and video.	MINDS@UW (own development)
JSC Digital Image Collection	This collection of more than 9000 NASA press release photos spans the American manned space program, from the Mercury program to the STS-79 Shuttle mission.
The Margarita S. Studemeister Digital Library in International Conflict Management	From the United States Institute of Peace (USIP): The Foreign Affairs Documentation Center (FADC was planned as an inter-agency digital library for public access primarily to unclassified official foreign policy documents of the United States, and is now defunct. The FADC sought to identify valuable digital collections at federal agencies, define persistent names for the documents and an indexing scheme for the collections, implement a registration process for documents submitted by the participating agencies, and design the worldwide delivery of the texts. The system architecture design by William Y. Arms, formerly of the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI), allowed end-users at any of 200 posts around the world, or connected via a browser to the World Wide Web, to search and retrieve documents with the aid of downloadable plug-ins from the FADC's web site. The design pioneered by Arms is being implemented by the American Memory Project of the National Digital Library Program of the Library of Congress. We are currently collecting the full text of peace agreements signed by the contending parties, ending inter- and intrastate conflicts worldwide since 1989 for its Peace Agreements Digital Collection. Similarly, for the Truth Commissions Digital Collection, we are acquiring decrees establishing truth commissions and similar bodies of inquiry worldwide, and the reports issued by such groups. The Oral Histories Project on Stability Operations currently includes interviews conducted by the USIP's Professional Training program with individuals involved in stability operations in Iraq, a component of the Iraq Experience Project. USIP's development of a digital library reflects its commitment to innovative technologies, collaboration and resource-sharing to strengthen preventive diplomacy, the management of international relations and the resolution of conflicts worldwide. Furthermore, the digital library plans complement and augment other information and communications technology projects that seek to capture, describe, organize, search, retrieve and disseminate the growing intellectual production and information about practical experiences in international conflict management supported by USIP.

External lists of digital repositories

• at the DPE
• Zentrales Archiv Digitalisierter Drucke
• EROMM

Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online

New York Public Library

McGill Digital Collections Program

Corporation for National Research Initiatives