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Digital library research at the Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications investigates all aspects of creating and disseminating digital collections, including experimentation with evolving technologies and formats, emerging standards, effects on previously established processes, and long-term survival of digital information. Additionally, the Lister Hill Center maintains a list of useful Digital Library Resources.
Lister Hill Center document management and conversion experiments in the early 1990's resulted in the development of innovative description, digitization, searching, and retrieval methods that continue to be used in current digital library research. These early experiments resulted in the Regional Medical Programs collection, a digital library of approximately 40,000 scanned images comprising some 1,500 documents from the 1960's and 1970's.
The Regional Medical Programs collection continues to remain available as a digital library and also serves as a unique test-bed for experiments in digital preservation.
The principles and practices established in the development of the Regional Medical Program digital library continue to guide current Lister Hill Center digital library research efforts. The U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) continues to support extramural research through the multi-agency Digital Library Initiative - Phase 2. Current projects include:
Selected Publications
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