Reviewing recent digital library research projects.

Instructions: To sign up for a particular project, enter your name in the pink box below and click a button next to a project, and then click "send". The page should reappear with your name inserted. You should only sign up for one project. To change your mind, enter your name and use the "delete previous choice" button; you must spell your name exactly the same way; then go through the sign-up procedure again to pick another project. Do not delete anybody else's name unless they agreed to the change. (I have copies of the history).

Projects: The order of the projects below is not significant. The earlier projects are neither more or less straightforward than the later ones. Nor is the list complete or even truly representative. It's largely the list of NSF funded DLI-2 projects, skipping some that didn't seem to have published much. To be sure that everyone had at least some choice, I added various others but there are still many more: examples include the Ameritech projects from the Library of Congress or the projects at Harvard, Yale, or Georgia. If you find that everything that appeals to you in the list below is taken, browse around (although for many of the others there won't be as much technological interest).

Warning: These projects vary widely in size and in the quality of their documentation; sometimes the reference below points to a fairly complete project website and sometimes you'll have to rely primarily on your own searching.

The actual sign-up sheet

Your name:

Morgan Farnkopf1. University of Arizona, High-Performance Digital Library Classification Systems: From Information Retrieval to Knowledge Management
2. University of California Berkeley Re-inventing Scholarly Information Dissemination and Use
Darryl Voorhees3. University of California Los Angeles, Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative
4. Carnegie Mellon University, Simplifying Interactive Layout and Video Editing and Reuse
Amy Renna5. Columbia University, A Patient Care Digital Library: Personalized Search and Summarization over Multimedia Information
6. Cornell University, Project Prism at Cornell University: Information Integrity in Digital Libraries
Kristen Shea7. Eckerd College, Digital Analysis and Recognition of Whale Images on a Network (DARWIN)
Wei Fang8. University of Hawaii at Manoa, Shuhai Wenyuan Classical Chinese Digital Database and Interactive Internet Worktable
9. University of Illinois -- Chicago, A Digital Library for Human Movement
10. Indiana University Indianapolis/Bloomington, A Distributed Information Filtering System for Digital Libraries
Kumiko Katoh11. Indiana University, Creating the Digital Music Library
12. Johns Hopkins University Digital Workflow Management: The Lester S. Levy Digitized Collection of Sheet Music, Phase Two
Geoffrey Wood13. University of Kentucky The Digital Atheneum: New Techniques for Restoring, Searching, and Editing Humanities Collections
14. University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Word Spotting: Indexing Handwritten Manuscripts
15. Michigan State University, Founding a National Gallery of the Spoken Word
16. Oregon Health and Science University, Tracking Footprints through an Information Space: Leveraging the Document Selections of Expert Problem Solvers
17. University of Pennsylvania, Digital provenance (sort of defunct)
John Klima18. Stanford University, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
19. Stanford University, Image Filtering for Secure Distribution of Medical Information
Jen Levine20. University of Texas at Austin, A Digital Library of Vertebrate Morphology, Using High-Resolution X-ray CT
Julie Friedberg21. Tufts University A Digital Library for the Humanities
Stephanie Fox22. University of Washington, Automatic Reference Librarians for the World Wide Web
23. Columbia University, Columbia Earthscape: A Model for a Sustainable Online Educational Resource in Earth Sciences
Yeojoo Lim24. University of Maryland, Digital Libraries for Children
25. Brown University, 3D Free Form Models for the Representation, Manipulation, and Recovery of Shape, with Applications to Archaeology and Virtual Sculpting
Scott Jobson26. University of Virginia, The Valley of the Shadow; the Shenandoah Valley in the Civil War.
27. University of California, Berkeley, A Multilingual Gazatteer [sic] System for Integrating Spatial and Cultural Resources; this got swallowed into the Electronic Cultural Atlas.
28. University of California Santa Barbara, Alexandria Digital Library Project
Takeo Sugihara29. Carnegie Mellon University, Informedia: digital video understanding
krista dandurand30. Columbia University, Computational Tools for Modeling,Visualizing and Analyzing Historic and Archaeological Sites
Victor Enriquez31. Johns Hopkins University, Digital Hammurabi - High Resolution 3D Imaging of Cuneiform Tablets
Julie Strange32. Princeton University, Shape-Based Retrieval and Its Application
David Ranzan33. Stanford University, Solving the Puzzle of the Forma Urbis Romae
David D'Onofrio34. Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, MALACH: Multilingual Access to Large Spoken Archives
35. University of Massachusetts, Online Music Recognition and Searching (OMRAS)
Andrew Noyes36. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, D-Space: a groundbreaking digital library system to capture, store, index, preserve, and redistribute the intellectual output of a university's research faculty. No false modesty here.
Amy DiPasquale37. Columbia University (and others), Fathom; Columbia encourages you to browse this archive of online learning resources, including lectures, articles, interviews, exhibits and free seminars.
Jack Kabrel38. University of Virginia, The William Blake Archive.
39. University of Virginia, A Hypermedia Research Archive of the Complete Writings and Pictures of Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
Deborah McGrath 40. Stanford University, Creating Digital Archives of 3D Artworks. Focus on the Digital Michaelangelo project.
Sean Boyle41. Texas A&M University, The Cervantes Project.
42. University of South Dakota, Hocoka: From the Heart of the Nation to the Rim of the World . (Oral histories of Native Americans; site seems down)
Nicole Williams43. University of California-Davis, British Women Romantic Poets, 1789-1832 .
Candy Willis44. RLG, Studies in Scarlet, Marriage, Women and the Law 1815-1914.
Julia Rey45. University of Georgia, Virtual Vaudeville