Digital Libraries
Unmil P. Karadkar
Lecturer, School of Information
UT Austin
What is a Library?
Dictionary.com
li·brar·y
1.a place set apart to contain books, periodicals, and other material for
reading, viewing, listening, study, or reference, as a room, set of
rooms, or building where books may be read or borrowed.
2.a public body organizing and maintaining such an establishment.
3.a collection of manuscripts, publications, and other materials for
reading, viewing, listening, study, or reference.
4.a collection of any materials for study and enjoyment, as films, musical
recordings, or maps.
5.a commercial establishment lending books for a fixed charge; a lending
library.
6.a series of books of similar character or alike in size, binding, etc.,
issued by a single publishing house.
7.Biology. a collection of standard materials or formulations by which
specimens are identified.
8.canon1 (def. 9).
9.Computers. a collection of software or data usually reflecting a specific
theme or application.
Access to materials
What do I want?
Where do I find it?
http://www.people.com/people/gall
ery/0,,20344430,00.html
Replicate
Full-text search
Stemming
Case folding
Stop word lists
What should I read, watch, listen to?
What’s going on in the world
today?
Tell me more about…
Refine
New Terminology
• 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
RIAA, MPAA Lawsuits
Is This a Digital Library?
Is This a Digital Library?
Is This a Digital Library?
Is This a Digital Library?
Is This a Digital Library?
Is This 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
Training for Life Science Researchers
Resources for Paleontologists
http://www.paleocentral.org
Unmil P. Karadkar
unmil@ischool.utexas.edu