Flashcards: Digital libraries

Greenstone is a suite of software tools for building and distributing digital library collections on the Internet or CD-ROM.

Distributed Proofreaders (commonly abbreviated as DP or PGDP) is a web-based project that supports the development of e-texts for Project Gutenberg by allowing many people to work together in proofreading drafts of e-texts for errors.

The Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (TKDL) is an Indian digital knowledge repository of the traditional knowledge, especially about medicinal plants and formulations used in Indian systems of medicine.

WebCite is an on-demand archiving service, designed to digitally preserve scientific and educationally important material on the web by making snapshots of Internet contents as they existed at the time when a blogger, or a scholar or a Wikipedia editor cited or quoted from it.

The Dublin Core Schema is a small set of vocabulary terms that can be used to describe web resources (video, images, web pages, etc.), as well as physical resources such as books or CDs, and objects like artworks.

Europeana.eu is the EU digital platform for cultural heritage.

Goodreads is an Amazon company and "social cataloging" website founded in December 2006 and launched in January 2007 by Otis Chandler, II, a software engineer and entrepreneur, and Elizabeth Chandler.

Munich Digitization Center (German Das Münchener Digitalisierungszentrum (MDZ)) is an institution dedicated to digitalization, Online publication and the long-term archival preservation of the holdings of the Bavarian State Library and other cultural heritage institutions.

Marxists Internet Archive (also known as MIA or Marxists.org) is a non-profit website that hosts a multilingual library (created in 1990) of the works of Marxist, communist, socialist, and anarchist writers, such as Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, Rosa Luxemburg, Che Guevara, Mikhail Bakunin, and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, as well as that of writers of related ideologies, and even unrelated ones (for instance, Sun Tzu and Adam Smith).

Runivers (Russian: Руниверс) is a site devoted to Russian culture and history.

The arXiv (pronounced "archive") is a repository of electronic preprints, known as e-prints, of scientific papers in the fields of mathematics, physics, astronomy, computer science, quantitative biology, statistics, and quantitative finance, which can be accessed online.

The Choral Public Domain Library (CPDL) is a sheet music archive which focuses on choral and vocal music in the public domain or otherwise freely available for printing and performing (such as via permission from the copyright holder).

Open Library is an online project intended to create "one web page for every book ever published".

The Open Content Alliance (OCA) is a consortium of organizations contributing to a permanent, publicly accessible archive of digitized texts.

Project Runeberg (Swedish, Projekt Runeberg) is a digital cultural archive initiative that publishes free electronic versions of books significant to the culture and history of the Nordic countries.

Project Gutenberg (PG) is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks".

The European Library is an Internet service that allows access to the resources of 49 European national libraries and an increasing number of research libraries.

(Not to be confused with Ibibio people or Ibibio language.)(This article is about the digital library and archive project. For other uses, see Metalab (disambiguation).) ibiblio (formerly SunSITE.unc.edu and MetaLab.unc.edu) is a "collection of collections," and hosts a diverse range of publicly available information and open source content, including software, music, literature, art, history, science, politics, and cultural studies.

archive.is (formerly archive.today) is a funded by donations digital time capsule, with data-centre located in Europe at Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France.

The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) is a US project aimed at providing public access to digital holdings in order to create a large-scale public digital library.

Librusec (Russian: Либрусек) is a library internet portal, the owner of which, Ilja Larin (Russian: Илья Ларин), lives in Ecuador.

(For the digital version of a research document, see eprint.) EPrints is a free and open-source software package for building open access repositories that are compliant with the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting.

The International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP), also known as the Petrucci Music Library after publisher Ottaviano Petrucci, is a subscription-based project for the creation of a virtual library of public domain music scores, based on the wiki principle.

The Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML) is a museum and library in New Delhi, India, which aims to preserve and reconstruct the history of the Indian independence movement.

Tamil Heritage Foundation (THF) is a non-profit organization that collaborates with the British Library to collect, preserve and digitize documents of Tamil cultural heritage.

ETH-Bibliothek is the largest public scientific and technical library in Switzerland.

Canadiana.org, formerly the Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions, is a non-profit and charitable organization dedicated to preserving Canada's heritage and making it accessible online.

Magzter is a cross-platform, self-service, global digital magazine newsstand with over 8,000 magazines from 3,400+ publishers.

The East Asia Image Collection (EAIC) is an open-access digital repository of images from all areas of the history of the Empire of Japan.

AudioCulture is a New Zealand On Air funded online project billed as the "Noisy library of New Zealand Music".

The Mountain West Digital Library (MWDL) is a centralized discovery portal for digital resources from libraries, archives, museums, government agencies, and historical societies in the Mountain West region of the United States.

The Panjab Digital Library is a voluntary organization digitizing and preserving the cultural heritage of Panjab since 2003.

PADICAT acronym for Patrimoni Digital de Catalunya, in Catalan; or Digital Heritage of Catalonia, in English, is the Web Archive of Catalonia.

Google News Archive is an extension of Google News that provides free access to scanned archives of newspapers and links to other newspaper archives on the web, both free and paid.

Feedbooks is a digital library and cloud publishing service for both public domain and original books founded in June 2007 and based in Paris, France.

The North Carolina Learning Object Repository (NCLOR) is a service offered by the North Carolina Community College System (NCCCS), that provides a central location to manage, collect, contribute, and share digital learning resources for use in traditional or distance learning environments.

Encoded Archival Description (EAD) is an XML standard for encoding archival finding aids, maintained by the Technical Subcommittee for Encoded Archival Description of the Society of American Archivists, in partnership with the Library of Congress.

Berliner Tageszeitung (styled BERLINER TAGESZEITUNG and also known colloquially as BTZ) is a German daily online newspaper.

The LOCKSS ("Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe") project, under the auspices of Stanford University, is a peer-to-peer network that develops and supports an open source system allowing libraries to collect, preserve and provide their readers with access to material published on the Web.

The Roots Reggae Library is a website that reviews discographies of Reggae artists.

Wikisource is an online digital library of free content textual sources on a wiki, operated by the Wikimedia Foundation.

bioRxiv is a preprint repository for the biological sciences launched in November 2013.

Bangladesh Liberation War eArchive (Bengali: মুক্তিযুদ্ধ ই-আর্কাইভ) is a 'Library, Archive & Research' organization, founded in 2007, working with collection, preservation & distribution of historical documents & research on the Liberation War of Bangladesh and Genocide of Innocent Bengali People in 1971.

Archives Service Center, University Library System, University of Pittsburgh (ASC) is one of the main repositories within the University Library System at the University of Pittsburgh and houses collections of various manuscripts, media, maps, and other materials of historical, social and scientific content.

Do Space is a 501(c)(3) non-profit community center for technology, digital library, education, and small makerspace featuring 3D printing technology in Omaha, Nebraska.

Discus (sometimes stylized as DISCUS, also referred to as South Carolina's Virtual Library and SC Discus) is a free-of-charge digital library intended exclusively for residents of the US state of South Carolina that is managed by the South Carolina State Library.

D-Lib Magazine is an on-line magazine dedicated to digital library research and development.

Wikibooks (previously called Wikimedia Free Textbook Project and Wikimedia-Textbooks) is a wiki-based Wikimedia project hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation for the creation of free content textbooks and annotated texts that anyone can edit.

PANDORA is the national web archive for the preservation of Australia's online publications.

Heurist is an online database designed for digital research objects including bibliographic records, web bookmarks, historical events, document annotations, images, contemporary stories and other data which is rich in text and classification data, and often heterogeneous.

NZ On Screen is a state-funded online promotional showcase of New Zealand television and film.

The William Blake Archive is a digital humanities project first created in 1996.

Clifford Lynch is the director of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), where he has been since 1997.

The South Asian American Digital Archive (SAADA) is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization with a mission to create a more inclusive society by giving voice to South Asian Americans through documenting, preserving, and sharing stories that represent their unique and diverse experiences.

HathiTrust is a large-scale collaborative repository of digital content from research libraries including content digitized via the Google Books project and Internet Archive digitization initiatives, as well as content digitized locally by libraries.

The Kurdish Digital Library (called BNK, in French La bibliothèque numérique kurde (BNK)) is a multimedia digital library created by Kurdish Institute of Paris.

The Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse is a website that posts information and documents relating to civil rights litigation.

The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is a UK-based non-profit limited company which seeks to secure the preservation of digital resources in the UK and internationally to secure the global digital memory and knowledge base.

Digital Comic Museum is a digital library of comic books in the public domain, released in 2010.

The Digital Curation Centre (DCC) was established to help solve the extensive challenges of digital preservation and digital curation and to lead research, development, advice, and support services for higher education institutions in the United Kingdom.

C-SPAN Video Library is the audio and video streaming website of C-SPAN, the American legislative broadcaster.

The International Nuclear Library Network (INLN), coordinated by the IAEA Library, i.