Digital Libraries
Unmil P. Karadkar
Lecturer, School of Information
UT Austin
Libraries
Access to materials
Where do I go to find
something I want?
Replicate
http://www.people.com/people/gall
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RIAA, MPAA Lawsuits
Full-text search
Stemming
Case folding
Stop word lists
Refine
Rename
• Cataloging  Organization
• Catalog information Metadata
• Books, periodicals, images, audio, video 
Documents
Collateral Damage
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Copyright and intellectual property
Funding sources – local vs. global issues
Access – local vs. remote
Intellectual property
Publishing
User Interfaces
Safeguards for special populations
But what is a library?
But what is a library?
But what is a library?
But what is a library?
But what is a library?
But what is a digital library?
Evolve
Broadening our horizons
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From libraries to collections
Special services for special audiences
Visualization techniques
New search modalities
– Images, videos, audio
– Content-based searches
• New kinds of collections
• Science data sets – Chemistry, Human Genome
Project
• What about the Humanities?
Online Picasso Project
Online Picasso Project
Online Picasso Project
Training for Life Science Researchers
Unmil P. Karadkar
unmil@ischool.utexas.edu