NEW Digital Libraries in the Classroom Programme: Transforming Teaching and Learning

NEW - DELOS/NSF Working Groups Reports:
• Reference Models for Digital Libraries: Actors and Roles (html) (pdf)
• Digital Imagery for Significant Cultural and Historical Materials (html) (pdf)
• Spoken-Word Audio Collections (html) (pdf)
• Personalisation and Recommender Systems in Digital Libraries (html) (pdf)

NEW - Report on the Fourth DELOS Workshop: • Evaluation of Digital Libraries: Testbeds, Measurements, and Metrics (html) (pdf)

DELOS/NSF Working Groups
• Reference Models for Digital Libraries: Actors and Roles
• Digital Imagery for Significant Cultural and Historical Materials

Summary Report of the Series of Joint NSF-EU Working Groups on
Future Directions for Digital Libraries Research, October 12, 1998

NSF Partnerships:
NSF-JISC (US-UK)
NSF-DFG (US-Germany)
NSF-EU (US-European Union) DIGITAL LIBRARIES: Future Directions for
a European Research Programme

DLI2 International Digital Libraries Projects

University of California, Berkeley/ University of Liverpool: NSF-JISC (US-UK)
Project Web Site: Cross-Domain Resource Discovery: Integrated
Discovery and use of Textual, Numeric and Spatial Data
Project Start Date: October 1, 1999
Project End Date:September 30, 2002
Expected Total Amt. $488,058 (Estimated)
NSF Award Abstract
Ray Larson, Principal Investigator, School of Information Management Systems, University of California, Berkeley
Paul Watry, Co-Principal Investigator, Special Collections and Archives, University of Liverpool Library, University of Liverpool
Project proposal in pdf

Cornell University / ILRT / DST: NSF-JISC (US-UK-Australia)
Project Web Site: HARMONY: Metadata for resource discovery of multimedia digital objects
Project Start Date: October 1, 1999
Project End Date: September 30, 2002
Expected Total Amt. $240,000 (Estimated)
NSF Award Abstract
Mr. Carl Lagoze, Principal Investigator, Department of Computer Science, Cornell University
Mr. Dan Brickley, Co-Principal Investigator, Institute for Learning and Research Technology, University of Bristol
Dr. Jane Hunter, Co-Principal Investigator, Australian Distributed Systems Technology Center

Cornell University / Southampton University / Los Alamos National Laboratory: NSF-JISC (US-UK)
Project Web Site: The Open Citation Project
Project Start Date: October 1, 1999
Project End Date: September 30, 2002
Expected Total Amt. $291,650 (Estimated)
NSF Award Abstract
Carl Lagoze, Principal Investigator, Department of Computer Science, Cornell University
Stevan Harnad, Co-Principal Investigator, Cognitive Science Center, Department of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton

Harvard University / Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG), Germany / University of Missouri at Kansas City / Tufts University: NSF-DFG (US-Germany)
Project Web Site: The Archimedes Project: Realizing the Vision of an Open Digital Research Library for the History of Mechanics
Project Start Date: September 15, 2000
Project End Date:September 30, 2003
Expected Total Amt. $448,444 (Estimated)
NSF Award Abstract
Mark J. Schiefsky, Principal Investigator, Department of the Classics, Harvard University
Jeffrey Rydberg-Cox, Co-Principal Investigator, Department of English, University of Missouri at Kansas City
Gregory Crane, Co-Prinicpal Investigator, Perseus Project, Classics Department, Tufts University
Jürgen Renn, Peter Damerow, Urs Schoepflin, Co-Principal Investigators, Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG), Germany

University of Massachusetts / King's College, London: NSF-JISC (US-UK)
Project Web Site: Online Music Recognition and Searching (OMRAS)
Project Start Date: September 15, 1999
Project End Date:September 30, 2002
Expected Total Amt. $494,149 (Estimated)
NSF Award Abstract
Donald Byrd, Principal Investigator, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Tim Crawford, Co-Principal Investigator, Department of Music, King's College

University of Michigan / University of Leeds : NSF-JISC (US-UK)
Project Web Site: CAMILEON: Creative Archiving at Michigan and Leeds Emulating the Old On the New
Project Start Date: October 1, 1999
Project End Date:September 30, 2002
Expected Total Amt. $488,058 (Estimated)
NSF Award Abstract
Margaret Hedstrom, Principal Investigator, School of Information, The University of Michigan
Kelly Russell, Co-Principal Investigator, CURL exemplars in digital archives , University of Leeds
Project description

University of Michigan / State Library of Lower Saxony and University Library of Gottingen / Cornell University: NSF-DFG (US-Germany)
Project Web Site: The Development of a Distributed Digital Library of Mathematical Monographs
Project Start Date: October 1, 2000
Project End Date:September 30, 2003
Expected Total Amt. $321,713 (Estimated)
NSF Award Abstract
John Price-Wilkin, Principal Investigator, Digital Library Production Service, The University of Michigan
H.Thomas Hickerson, Co-Principal Investigator, Cornell Institute for Digital Collections, Cornell University

Michigan State University : NSF - Institut Fondemental d'Afrique Noire (IFAN) - West African Research Center (WARC) (US-Africa)
Project Web Site: Multi-Lingual Digital Library for West African Sources
Project Start Date: August 15, 2000
Project End Date:July 31, 2003
Expected Total Amt. $379,951 (Estimated)
NSF Award Abstract
Mark Kornbluh, Principal Investigator, H-Net, MATRIX, History Department
Michael Seadle, Co-Principal Investigator, Michigan State University Libraries
David Wiley, David Robinson, Co-Principal Investigators, African Studies Center

University of Missouri at Kansas City
Project Web Site: Cultural Heritage Language Technologies
Project Start Date: January 1, 2002
Project End Date: November 30, 2004
Expected Total Amt. $494,689 (Estimated)
NSF Awards Abstract
Jeffrey Rydberg-Cox, Principal Investigator, Classical Studies Program and the Department of English
Ross Scaife,Co-Principal Investigator, Classics, University of Kentucky
Gregory Crane, Co-Principal Investigator, Department of Classics, Tufts University
Timothy Tangherlini, Co-Principal Investigator, Scandinavian Section, UCLA

SUNY (State University of New York) at Buffalo
Project Web Site: Creation of Devanagari Data Resources and OCR Technology Interchange
Project Start Date: January 15, 2002
Project End Date: December 31, 2004 (Estimated)
Expected Total Amt. $487,318 (Estimated)
NSF Awards Abstract
Venugopal Govindaraju, Principal Investigator, Department of Computer Science & Engineering and Center of Excellence for Document Analysis and Recognition (CEDAR)

State University of New York, Buffalo: NSF - National Institute for Informatics (NII), Japan - IRESTE, University of Nantes, France (US-France-Japan)
Project Web Site: Metadata Model, Resource Discovery, and Querying on large-scale Multidimensional Datasets
Project Start Date: August 15, 2000
Project End Date:July 31, 2003
Expected Total Amt. $400,000 (Estimated)
NSF Award Abstract
Aidong Zhang, Principal Investigator, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, CSE Database and Multimedia Group
David M. Mark, Co-Principal Investigator, Department of Geography
Raj Acharya, Co-Principal Investigator, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Networked Multimedia & Visualization Laboratory

Simmons College / Tsinghua University / Peking University, Beijing / Jiao-Tong University, Shanghai / National Taiwan University / National Tsinghua University / Academia Sinica
Project Web Site: CMNet (Chinese Memory Net): U.S.-Sino Collaborative Research Toward a Global Digital Library in Chinese Studies
Project Start Date: May 1, 2000
Project End Date: September 30, 2003
Expected Total Amt. $430,354 (Estimated)
NSF Awards Abstract
Chingchih Chen, Principal Investigator, Graduate School of Library and Information Science
Project Summary (pdf)

University of Virginia/ University of Trier: NSF-DFG (US-Germany)
Project Web Site: Middle High German Interlinked: A Full-Text Archive and Medieval German Dictionaries Collaboratory
Project Start Date: February 15, 2001
Project End Date: February 28, 2003
Expected Total Amt. $253,746 (Estimated)
NSF Award Abstract
David Seaman, Principal Investigator, Electronics Text Center

University of Wisconsin-Madison/ UKOLN / ILRT: NSF-JISC (US-UK)
Project Web Site: The Internet Scout Project
Project Start Date: October 1, 1999
Project End Date: September 30, 2002
Expected Total Amt. $480,166 (Estimated)
NSF Award Abstract
Rachael Bower, Principal Investigator, Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Andy Powell, Co-Principal Investigator, UK Office for Library and Information Networking, University of Bath
Project summary in pdf