Archiving in the networked world (2009)
Purpose - To consider whether PDF formats are appropriate for long term digital archiving. Design/methodology/approach - To examine how well PDF's capabilities fit eReader devices such as future...
Archiving in the networked world (2009)
Purpose – The goal of this column is not to argue the pros and cons of digital archiving, or to propose solutions to its problems, but to describe it as a research subject and a social phenomenon....
Purpose – This editorial seeks to compare the German Bibliothekartag, the American Library Association Annual Meeting, and the International Federation of Library Associations meeting....
Copyright in the networked world (2008)
Purpose – Libraries and scholars face more frequent problems with and decisions about plagiarism than in the past. This article aims to look at complex cases where plagiarism may have occurred....
Copyright in the networked world (2008)
Purpose – This column aims to examine the influence of technology on copyright infringement and looks at the contemporary technology race between tools for rights enforcement and tools for copying...
Copyright in the networked world (2008)
Purpose – This paper uses an inductive approach to define “gray copyright.” It is needed to describe those situations in which the practical degree of copyright protection can best be measured...
Technology around the world (2008)
Seadle, Michael, Greifeneder, Elke
Purpose – This editorial aims to discuss how technology has transformed the cultural map for libraries so that experiences in Taiwan, Iran, India, Greece, or New Zealand are relevant anywhere in...
In archiving we trust: Results from a workshop at Humboldt University in Berlin (2008)
Michael Seadle; Humboldt University, Berlin, Elke Greifeneder; Humboldt University, Berlin
If 25 specialists in preserving scholarly information had sat together in June of 1907 at the University of Berlin on Unter den Linden, they could likely have agreed that materials stored in the...
Seadle, Michael, Greifeneder, Elke
If 25 specialists in preserving scholarly information had sat together in June of 1907 at the University of Berlin on Unter den Linden (Humboldt–Universität zu Berlin), they could likely have...
Langzeitarchivierungssysteme - Vertrauen ist gut, Kontrolle ist besser (2008)
Seadle, Michael, Greifeneder, Elke
Ausnahmen gibt es die bekannten LZA-Systeme erst seit einigen Jahren. Tests, ob das System überhaupt eine LZA garantieren kann, werden nur intern durchgeführt und nachher nicht öffentlich...
Dieser Beitrag untersucht, unter welchen Bedingungen Autoren ökonomisch davon profitieren können, dass sie ihre Werke unter einer Creative-Commons-Lizenz frei verfügbar machen. Methodisch werden...
Dieser Beitrag untersucht, unter welchen Bedingungen Autoren ökonomisch davon profitieren können, dass sie ihre Werke unter einer Creative-Commons-Lizenz frei verfügbar machen. Methodisch werden...
Envisioning an iSchool Curriculum (2007)
Seadle, Michael, Greifeneder, Elke
The questions we were asked to discuss for this 6th International Conference on Conceptions of Library and Information Science were whether there should be a unique iSchool curriculum and, if so,...
Anthropologists in the library (2007)
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to review the book Studying Students: The Undergraduate Research Project at the University of Rochester edited by Nancy Fried Foster and Susan Gibbons....
Feeding America: Lessons from a Project Demonstration (2007)
The Online Archive of California (OAC) is a digital information resource that facilitates and provides access to materials such as manuscripts, photographs, and works of art held in libraries,...
Copyright in the networked world (2007)
Purpose – This column seeks to look at the case of a long-standing project to arrange document delivery between US and German libraries. This case represents the broader problem of international...
Purpose – This column aims to look at the different economic and intellectual approaches to copyright as separate cultures whose assumptions and approaches make it difficult for them to share a...
The new mission of a new i-school (2007)
Purpose – To discuss the mission statement for the Institute of Library and Information Sciences at Humboldt University in Berlin. Design/methodology/approach – The article examines other...
Defining a digital library (2007)
Seadle, Michael, Greifeneder, Elke
Purpose – This editorial seeks to examine the definition of a “digital library” to see whether one can be constructed that usefully distinguishes a digital library from other types of...
Defining a digital library (2007)
Seadle, Michael, Greifeneder, Elke
Purpose – This editorial seeks to examine the definition of a “digital library” to see whether one can be constructed that usefully distinguishes a digital library from other types of...
The new mission of a new i-school (2007)
Purpose – To discuss the mission statement for the Institute of Library and Information Sciences at Humboldt University in Berlin. Design/methodology/approach – The article examines other...
Purpose – This column aims to look at the different economic and intellectual approaches to copyright as separate cultures whose assumptions and approaches make it difficult for them to share a...
Copyright in the networked world (2007)
Purpose – This column seeks to look at the case of a long-standing project to arrange document delivery between US and German libraries. This case represents the broader problem of international...
Copyright in the networked world (2006)
This column looks at questions from teaching faculty about the use of copyright protected materials in an online course. Design/methodology/approach – Copyright guidelines are considered. The US...
Content management systems (2006)
Abstract: Purpose – To introduce the special theme issue on “Content management systems”. Design/methodology/approach – Each of the articles in the theme are described in brief. Findings –...
Copyright in the networked world (2006)
Purpose – The purpose of this column is to look at how US copyright law deals with facts and what can reasonably be considered as a fact. Design/methodology/approach – The US statutes and case...
Copyright in the networked world (2006)
Purpose – The purpose of this column is to look at how copyright enforcement is handled. Design/methodology/approach – Legal issues in enforcement are examined, as well as the initiatives of...
Copyright in the networked world (2006)
Purpose – The purpose of this column is to look at how copyright enforcement is handled. Design/methodology/approach – Legal issues in enforcement are examined, as well as the initiatives of...
Copyright in the networked world (2006)
Purpose – The purpose of this column is to look at how US copyright law deals with facts and what can reasonably be considered as a fact. Design/methodology/approach – The US statutes and case...
Content management systems (2006)
Abstract: Purpose – To introduce the special theme issue on “Content management systems”. Design/methodology/approach – Each of the articles in the theme are described in brief. Findings –...
Copyright in the networked world (2006)
This column looks at questions from teaching faculty about the use of copyright protected materials in an online course. Design/methodology/approach – Copyright guidelines are considered. The US...
SpeechFind: Advances in Spoken Document Retrieval for a National Gallery of the Spoken Word (2005)
Hansen, John H.L., Huang, Rongqing, Zhou, Bowen, Seadle, Michael, Deller Jr., John R., Kurimo, Mikko, ...
Advances in formulating spoken document retrieval for a new National Gallery of the Spoken Word (NGSW) are addressed. NGSW is the first large-scale repository of its kind, consisting of speeches,...
Copyright in the networked world (2005)
Purpose – This column aims to look at the results of the US Copyright Office's request for comments about orphan copyrights. Design/methodology/approach – It uses a form of Game Theory called the...
Copyright in the networked world (2005)
Purpose – This column looks at which rights matter, how to retain them, and which journal publishers already cooperate. Design/methodology/approach – It uses the requirements of the Berlin...
Copyright in the networked world (2005)
Purpose – This column looks at which rights matter, how to retain them, and which journal publishers already cooperate. Design/methodology/approach – It uses the requirements of the Berlin...
Copyright in the networked world (2005)
Purpose – This column aims to look at the results of the US Copyright Office's request for comments about orphan copyrights. Design/methodology/approach – It uses a form of Game Theory called the...
Selection for digital preservation (2004)
This editorial discusses long-term archiving and long-term access to digital documents, with an emphasis on criteria for selection. Selecting materials for digital preservation depends on whether the...
Education for twenty-first century librarians (2004)
Humboldt University invited experts to Berlin recently to offer advice about its library science program. While the education of librarians for the twenty-first century needs to include practical...
Copyright in a networked world (2004)
The statutes themselves are not the only basis for deciding whether an intellectual property rights infringement has occurred. Ethical judgments can also influence judicial rulings. This column looks...
Copyright in the networked world (2004)
Interlibrary lending and document delivery have become an integral part of the services that contemporary libraries offer. The copyright laws in most countries authorized this copying within...
Copyright in the networked world (2004)
Early copyright laws said little about the rights of consumers. In general, the law in each country gave an exclusive, short-term right to make copies of the work as a whole. The periods were so...
International Conference on Digital Libraries (2004)
Seadle, Michael, Kar, Debal C.
The conference co-ordinator and an invited speaker of the International Conference on Digital Libraries (ICDL) which took place in New Delhi, India, February 2004 provide an overview of the...
International Conference on Digital Libraries (2004)
Seadle, Michael, Kar, Debal C.
The conference co-ordinator and an invited speaker of the International Conference on Digital Libraries (ICDL) which took place in New Delhi, India, February 2004 provide an overview of the...
Copyright in the networked world (2004)
Early copyright laws said little about the rights of consumers. In general, the law in each country gave an exclusive, short-term right to make copies of the work as a whole. The periods were so...
Copyright in the networked world (2004)
Interlibrary lending and document delivery have become an integral part of the services that contemporary libraries offer. The copyright laws in most countries authorized this copying within...
Copyright in a networked world (2004)
The statutes themselves are not the only basis for deciding whether an intellectual property rights infringement has occurred. Ethical judgments can also influence judicial rulings. This column looks...
Education for twenty-first century librarians (2004)
Humboldt University invited experts to Berlin recently to offer advice about its library science program. While the education of librarians for the twenty-first century needs to include practical...
Selection for digital preservation (2004)
This editorial discusses long-term archiving and long-term access to digital documents, with an emphasis on criteria for selection. Selecting materials for digital preservation depends on whether the...
SPEECHFIND: Spoken Document Retrieval for a National Gallery of the Spoken Word (2004)
Rongqing Huang, Praful Mangalath, Bowen Zhou, Michael Seadle, John R. Deller
In this study, we discuss a number of issues for audio stream phrase recognition for information retrieval for a new National Gallery of the Spoken Word (NGSW). NGSW is the first largescale...
Outcome-based evaluation (2003)
Outcome-based evaluation is increasingly used for digital library projects. The point of outcome-based evaluation is to establish a project’s effectiveness with its target audience. Although many...
The status of systems librarians (2003)
Systems librarians are a subspecies on whom everyone in the library world depends. Yet no one who has worked as a systems librarian would recognize themselves as having an exalted status. The problem...
Mental models for personal digital assistants (PDAs) (2003)
PDAs (personal digital assistants) have evolved from toys for geeks into tools with real potential for professionals. This editorial examines mental models about PDAs in order to understand the...
Copyright in a networked world (2003)
Internet-based distance education has become big business for both universities and the commercial world. The new TEACH Act was intended to make US copyright law friendlier toward Internet-based...
Copyright in a networked world (2003)
Internet-based distance education has become big business for both universities and the commercial world. The new TEACH Act was intended to make US copyright law friendlier toward Internet-based...
Mental models for personal digital assistants (PDAs) (2003)
PDAs (personal digital assistants) have evolved from toys for geeks into tools with real potential for professionals. This editorial examines mental models about PDAs in order to understand the...
The status of systems librarians (2003)
Systems librarians are a subspecies on whom everyone in the library world depends. Yet no one who has worked as a systems librarian would recognize themselves as having an exalted status. The problem...
Outcome-based evaluation (2003)
Outcome-based evaluation is increasingly used for digital library projects. The point of outcome-based evaluation is to establish a project’s effectiveness with its target audience. Although many...
Building an Open Language Archives Community on the OAI foundation (2003)
Gary Simons, Steven Bird, Edited Tim Cole, Michael Seadle
The Open Language Archives Community (OLAC) is an international partnership of institutions and individuals who are creating a worldwide virtual library of language resources. The Dublin Core (DC)...
METS and the metadata marketplace (2002)
One purpose of the Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS) is to deal with the multiplication of metadata types in recent years, and especially metadata that deal with non-paper materials,...
The physical dimension of information space (2002)
One of the unintended effects of new information technology has been the obsolescence of the buildings housing the technology. Information technology can be building-independent, but our buildings...
Copyright in the networked world (2002)
In copyright law, the principle of moral rights is that some part of the creator’s personality has gone into each original work, and that that element of personality cannot be sold or transferred....
Copyright in the networked world (2002)
Two recent court cases have redefined how images may be used on the Internet without copyright infringement. The Bridgeman case is based explicitly on British as well as US law. Kelly v. Arriba...
Copyright in a networked world (2002)
What happens when “fair use”, “fair dealing”, face-to-face teaching guidelines and other copyright exceptions do not apply? Only three choices remain: give up plans to use the protected work,...
Copyright in a networked world (2002)
What happens when “fair use”, “fair dealing”, face-to-face teaching guidelines and other copyright exceptions do not apply? Only three choices remain: give up plans to use the protected work,...
Copyright in the networked world (2002)
Two recent court cases have redefined how images may be used on the Internet without copyright infringement. The Bridgeman case is based explicitly on British as well as US law. Kelly v. Arriba...
Copyright in the networked world (2002)
In copyright law, the principle of moral rights is that some part of the creator’s personality has gone into each original work, and that that element of personality cannot be sold or transferred....
The physical dimension of information space (2002)
One of the unintended effects of new information technology has been the obsolescence of the buildings housing the technology. Information technology can be building-independent, but our buildings...
METS and the metadata marketplace (2002)
One purpose of the Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS) is to deal with the multiplication of metadata types in recent years, and especially metadata that deal with non-paper materials,...
The Copyright Need, Michael Seadle
An important research component in the creation of the National Gallery of the Spoken Word (NGSW) is the development of watermarking technologies for the audio library. In this paper we argue that...
A love affair with markup (2001)
It was not love at first sight when I met my first markup language sometime in the 1980s. But XML is different. It has a rich and flexible tag-set that lets it function as a database. It is also...
The Folk Heritage Collections in Crisis conference (2001)
The Folk Heritage Collections in Crisis conference pursued three themes: access, preservation, and intellectual property. The 100 invited participants were mainly middle-aged, established,...
In defense of (some) commercial journals (2001)
Not all commercial publishers are alike. Of the many epithets thrown at the commercial publishers of academic works, “greedy” ranks as the most common. But for journals facing serious...
Copyright in the networked world (2001)
This column examines a “non-legislative” report on “Fair use guidelines for educational multimedia”. Although the guidelines have serious flaws, they offer several positive features: they...
Copyright in the networked world (2001)
Libraries tend to make assumptions about copyright. The assumption is that any work published since 1923 has copyright protection. This article is about how to discover key facts about the copyright...
Copyright in the networked world (2001)
There are times when the US copyright laws seem to stem from a culture that puts little value on providing public access to its own past. Two recent conferences discussed problems raised by copyright...
Copyright in the networked world (2001)
Legal deposit is the requirement that particular types of material be deposited with a national library or designated research libraries. US law does not at present include any requirement for the...
Copyright in the networked world (2001)
Legal deposit is the requirement that particular types of material be deposited with a national library or designated research libraries. US law does not at present include any requirement for the...
Copyright in the networked world (2001)
There are times when the US copyright laws seem to stem from a culture that puts little value on providing public access to its own past. Two recent conferences discussed problems raised by copyright...
Copyright in the networked world (2001)
Libraries tend to make assumptions about copyright. The assumption is that any work published since 1923 has copyright protection. This article is about how to discover key facts about the copyright...
Copyright in the networked world (2001)
This column examines a “non-legislative” report on “Fair use guidelines for educational multimedia”. Although the guidelines have serious flaws, they offer several positive features: they...
In defense of (some) commercial journals (2001)
Not all commercial publishers are alike. Of the many epithets thrown at the commercial publishers of academic works, “greedy” ranks as the most common. But for journals facing serious...
The Folk Heritage Collections in Crisis conference (2001)
The Folk Heritage Collections in Crisis conference pursued three themes: access, preservation, and intellectual property. The 100 invited participants were mainly middle-aged, established,...
A love affair with markup (2001)
It was not love at first sight when I met my first markup language sometime in the 1980s. But XML is different. It has a rich and flexible tag-set that lets it function as a database. It is also...
Preserving the spoken word (1999)
How can we digitize the spoken word in a way that maximizes its usefulness and accessibility over as long a period as possible? This editorial lists six issues: copyright and ownership; selection at...
Bayes’ theorem is about updating assumptions. It provides a mathematical basis for a heuristic search algorithm. A system using such an algorithm could make a kind of “best guess” about what...
Many practices that are legal or at least clearly “fair use” in the paper world encounter serious complications in digital form. This is partly because the statutes and case law mostly do not...
Why a copyright column? (1999)
Copyright is integral to everything we do in digital publishing. This new column will examine a wide range of intellectual property issues using concrete examples from current projects. Since...
International complications (1999)
Every page on the Web represents an international publication. A client machine in Germany can easily access a server in Michigan, but the copyright laws in the USA differ in a number of significant...
International complications (1999)
Every page on the Web represents an international publication. A client machine in Germany can easily access a server in Michigan, but the copyright laws in the USA differ in a number of significant...
Why a copyright column? (1999)
Copyright is integral to everything we do in digital publishing. This new column will examine a wide range of intellectual property issues using concrete examples from current projects. Since...
Many practices that are legal or at least clearly “fair use” in the paper world encounter serious complications in digital form. This is partly because the statutes and case law mostly do not...
Bayes’ theorem is about updating assumptions. It provides a mathematical basis for a heuristic search algorithm. A system using such an algorithm could make a kind of “best guess” about what...
Preserving the spoken word (1999)
How can we digitize the spoken word in a way that maximizes its usefulness and accessibility over as long a period as possible? This editorial lists six issues: copyright and ownership; selection at...
The raw and the cooked among librarians (1998)
This introduction to Library Hi Tech‘s special issue on digital libraries and digital centers is about applying anthropology to library research. The goal is to demonstrate anthropology at work by...
Building on the Cornell-Yale Model (1998)
This article has two purposes. One is to summarize the elements of the Cornell-Yale digitization model in a way that would be useful to other institutions planning to follow their effort. The people...
Building on the Cornell-Yale Model (1998)
This article has two purposes. One is to summarize the elements of the Cornell-Yale digitization model in a way that would be useful to other institutions planning to follow their effort. The people...
The raw and the cooked among librarians (1998)
This introduction to Library Hi Tech‘s special issue on digital libraries and digital centers is about applying anthropology to library research. The goal is to demonstrate anthropology at work by...
Digitization for the Masses (1997)
According to Clifford Lynch, Coalition for Networked Information president, a problem in developing digital libraries is that scarce resources get burned up in too many small-scale local projects,...
Digitization for the Masses (1997)
According to Clifford Lynch, Coalition for Networked Information president, a problem in developing digital libraries is that scarce resources get burned up in too many small-scale local projects,...
Schlögl, Robert, Bruch, Christoph, Kuras, Jan, Koch, Wolfram, Seadle, Michael, Müller, Harald
9.30 Welcome and Coffee 10.00 Why would you want to know about open access? (Prof. Dr. Robert Schlögl, Director, Fritz Haber Institute of the MPS) Open Access at Max Planck Society (Christoph Bruch,...