Electronic Publishing Projects at Yale University Library

1931 Yale Library Gazette (RSC) -- Contact: Marianna McKim
digitization of the April, 1931, Yale University Library Gazette.

Divinity Library databases--Contact: Martha Smalley

• The Ad Hoc Digital Library is a faculty-library initiative to support and coordinate resources relating to the history of Christianity at Yale University. Ad Hoc contains almost 2600 items and includes both texts and images. While some of the elements of this site are only locally accessible, most are available through the Internet and are intended to serve a larger audience. The purposes and expected uses of materials accessed through the site are educational and scholarly.
• The EIKON Image Database for Biblical Studies is a faculty-library initiative that provides digital resources for teaching and research in the field of Biblical studies. Images in the EIKON database are a subset of about 1200 of the materials in the AdHoc Digital Library, and concentrates on those that are in the public domain.

Archives 300 (MS&A) --Contact: Anne Marie Phillips
Providing comprehensive and effective description and access to the Yale documentary record and Yale historical information

Art through The Museum System (BAC) --Elizabeth Fairman
scanning the art works (paintings, drawings, sculpture, prints) in the British Art Center for input into the database system called TMS (The Museum System) with an eye to eventually providing access on the Web. 

Avalon Project (Law Library) -- Contact: Bill Fray
The Law Library mounts digital documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government.

Beinecke Collection Databases

• As part of the Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS) project, the Beinecke Papyrology Database describes papyri held in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library and includes many images. Over the last year 5800 papyri have been scanned for this database.
• The Beinecke Photonegatives Database contains approximately 19,000 images of photographs, manuscripts, correspondence, artwork, objects, and illustrations and selected pages from printed works in the Beinecke's collections. The images were scanned from the Photonegative File, a file containing negatives and color transparencies of images selected for reproduction or study by patrons over the last twenty years. Data describing these images in most cases is very brief, but generally includes call number and subject or author.

BYTES-- Contact: Ann Okerson
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has granted $42,000 to the Yale University Library to fund a one-year pilot project that will be conducted by eight of the eighteen members of NERL (the NorthEast Research Libraries consortium). The project is called BYTES, Books You Teach Every Semester, and grows out of the NERL libraries' desire to exploit and influence effectively the rapidly developing electronic book marketplace, which began clearly to emerge in 1999. The participating institutions include: Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, New York University, Syracuse University, University of Connecticut, and Yale University. The investigators will attempt to answer a series of fundamental, policy-shaping questions related to the potential digitization of books and other reading materials that support study and teaching in these areas.

Digitized Images from the Visual Resource Collection -- Contact: Susan J. Williams
Images from the Visual Resource Collection are being digitized for classroom use. Slides are selected according to the needs of professors and placed on a course web server. The Visual Resource Collection is also working with Luna Insight software and professors to create presentations for classes.

Finding Aid Project (MS&A, Beinecke, Divinity) -- Contact: Brian Kupiec

Electronic Texts in the History of Medicine (Historical Medical) -- Contact: Toby Appel
With the collaboration of Richard H. Siderits, M.D., the Historical Library is making available through the Web several popular medical texts of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries.

Imaging America (Library and ITS) -- Contact: Max Marmor
Imaging America will focus on images useful in teaching the history of American art and architecture, in the curatorial work of the Art Gallery, and in the design of plays with an American setting.

Scully Project (Art)

jake (Medical & others at Yale and beyond) --Contact: Dan Chudnov
jake supports the management of and linking between online resources and descriptions thereof. jake consists of a database containing information about e-resources (including online journals, databases, search interfaces, and textbooks) and how they relate to each other. These relationships include a functional but minimal amount of title authority control, listing of indexing and fulltext coverage, and resource evolution. About jake.

Luna Imaging
Yale has worked closely and most successfully with Luna Imaging, Inc. in the development of classroom applications and in the creation of an image database currently containing material from the Imaging America Project, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, and the Yale Visual Resources Collection (6000 records in all). Through the Luna Users Group, Yale is now working closely with other research institutions on a fundamental set of challenges that must be met if the Luna database architecture is to succeed in a networked research environment. Release 3.0 of the Insight software, scheduled for November, 2000, will deliver a new database structure and several important enhancements requested and refined by the Users Group.

• Classroom Use of Digital Images
• Classroom Presentation Module --Sample Screens

New Haven Health (Medical) -- Contact: Matt Wilcox
The Medica Library has digitized current and historical document, statistics, and photographs which are relevant to the public health of the greater New Haven Area.

Project Open Book (Preservation) -- Contact: Paul Conway
A research and development program that explored the feasibility and costs of large-scale conversion of preserved material from microfilm to digital imagery

ThesisWeb (Medical) -- Contact: Charles Greenberg
THESISweb is a project to create a searchable database of Medical thesis citations with abstracts, allowing students and faculty to rapidly locate theses by year, school, or subject, as well as conveniently read or print abstracts from a standard web browser.

Beyond Yale:
ARL Digital Initiative Database
Inventory of Canadian Digital Initiatives
Inventory of Distributed Digital Research Library Germany
Digital Library Federation (which contains the DLF newsletter, reporting on consortium members digital library activities)

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