Here is a general list of useful connections for cultural and scientific memory and education institutions that have an interest in digitization, preservation and access. Visit the Web sites of Canadiana.org members for more resources. Consult the Canadiana.org Membership page.
An international Z39.50 specification supporting Library applications and resource discovery. It describes and specifies a subset of ANSI/NISO Z39.50-1995, Information Retrieval (Z39.50): Application Service Definition and Protocol Specification (ISO 23950).
CHIN and Canadian museums work together to strengthen their collective ability to create, present and manage Canadian online content.
Centre francophone d'informatisation des organisations.
Treasury Board Canada. Background on how and why the Common Look and Feel Initiative was undertaken, purpose, audience, application, CLF implementation date.
National leadership in collaborative research and development on innovative communications, broadcasting and information technologies, for a strong Canadian knowledge-based economy.
Government of Canada. The DSP primary objective is to ensure that Canadians have ready and equal access to federal government information.
Provides leadership in New Brunswick and beyond by contributing to the development of scholarly electronic publishing.
Over 90 selected technology-based standards, protocols, and document formats that are pertinent to digital Library activities.
The Core Subject Thesaurus (CST) is to be used as a source of standardized terminology for the indexing and retrieval of Government of Canada information resources in various formats. Its main function is to standardize the external form and meaning of index terms, thus ensuring that a particular concept or subject will always be represented in the same way in Government of Canada metadata resources.
IM Forum identifies information management issues common to government institutions and develops practical solutions that have government-wide application.
Committed to advancing the role of information in development.
The project addresses peservation and authenticity issues.
James Turner, Université de Montréal The MetaMap is a pedagogical graphic that takes the form of a subway map. Its aim is to help the information science community to understand metadata standards, sets, and initiatives of interest in this area.
(There is Canadian representation on the METS Editorial Board.)
Library and Archives Canada, Electronic Collections Coordinating Group (1998).
Library and Archives Canada. Series designed to provide information on Library networking projects and technologies.
Online Computer Library Center. Promotes the equal sharing of resources and information available in Canada with other countries.
University of British Columbia Research to identify and define the requirements for creating, handling and preserving reliable and authentic electronic records.
Library and Archives Canada.
Project of the Library Subcommittee of the Conference of Rectors and Principals of Quebec Universities (CREPUQ). Developed in cooperation by Quebec university Libraries, Sherlock is a shared infrastructure for bilingual access to and use of numerical data.
McMaster University
Preserving Access to Digital Information.
Framework of standards, guidance and implementation projects centred around the goal of reliable archiving electronic records created or managed by the Victorian government.
MINERVA EC is a Thematic Network in the area of cultural, scientific information and scholarly content
Nouvelles de la formation à la distance.
A centre of expertise in digital information management, providing advice and services to the Library, information, education and cultural heritage communities.
International Research on Permanent Authentic Records in Electronic Systems. Addresses issues of records' life-cycle through reliability, accuracy, authenticity and preservation.
Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG), a working group of ISO/IEC in charge of the development of standards for coded representation of digital audio and video.
A not-for-profit global consortium for the development, convergence and adoption of e-business standards.
W3C is an open forum of companies and organizations with the mission to lead the Web to its full potential. W3C develops interoperable technologies and is a forum for information, commerce, communication, and collective understanding.
W3C is hosted by the Laboratory for Computer Science at MIT www.lcs.mit.edu, by ERCIM www.ercim.org and by Keio University www.keio.ac.jp.
A non-profit scientific society devoted to advancing the scientific understanding of the mechanisms underlying thought and intelligent behavior and their embodiment in machines.
University of California, Berkeley. Experiment with interactive multimedia technology in professional practice, scholarship, and education.
Formulating program directions for the research community in the areas of computer, computational, and informational sciences and engineering with the participation of selected organizations. A directorate of the National Science Foundation.
Preservation Department of Stanford University Libraries. Full text Library of conservation information, covering topics of conservation of Library, archives and museum materials.
A non-profit organization, CliR works to expand access to information however recorded and preserved, as a public good.
Flexible copyright licenses for creative works.
The site offers you information about developing digital collections and managing networked information for the benefit of scholarship, education, and cultural progress. The Digital Library Federation (DLF) is a consortium of Libraries and related agencies.
Peer reviewed journal on the Internet. University of Illinois at Chicago.
Building Digital Collections, a Technical Overview
This page presents key standards used in the information community that are maintained by the Library of Congress. There is information on maintenance and use. Provides links to other related national and international standards organizations.
A resource of Librarians. Yale University.
MPEG (pronounced M-peg), which stands for Moving Picture Experts Group, is the nickname given to a family of International Standards used for coding audio-visual information in a digital compressed format.
Develop a national strategy to collect, archive and preserve the burgeoning amounts of digital content, especially materials that are created only in digital formats, for current and future generations. (Led by the Library of Congress.)
Guide to Good Practice in the Digital Representation & Management of Cultural Heritage Materials designed for those in all sectors of the cultural community who are digitizing and networking cultural resources.
The Open Archives Initiative develops and promotes interoperability standards that aim to facilitate the efficient dissemination of content. The Open Archives Initiative has its roots in an effort to enhance access to e-print archives as a means of increasing the availability of scholarly communication.
W3C is an open forum of companies and organizations with the mission to lead the Web to its full potential. W3C develops interoperable technologies and is a forum for information, commerce, communication, and collective understanding.
W3C is hosted by the Laboratory for Computer Science at MIT www.lcs.mit.edu, by ERCIM www.ercim.org and by Keio University www.keio.ac.jp.
Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia. Provides online access to full-text documents (e-texts), research projects, and Dalhousie-published scholarly electronic journals enabling users to access the available texts at any time, and from any location.
University of New Brunswick.
Promouvoir et diffuser la recherche universitaire. Érudit est le lieu de diffusion des revues soutenues par le Fonds québécois de recherche sur la société et la culture.
Carleton University Library. Use MADGIC web pages to discover government links, maps, and statistical data.
Canada's Local Histories Online.
Canada Central portal access point for Canadian theses and information about the Theses Canada program.
Tri-University Data Resources is a tri-joint venture of the University of Guelph, the University of Waterloo, and Wilfrid Laurier University. The individual centres for data resources and the University of Guelph Computing and Communications Services with the University of Waterloo Information Systems and Technology joined forces to create this centralized on-line data service.
Australia Council for the Arts.
Research and Exchange Partnership
University of Waikato.
Australia.
Bibliothèque nationale de France.
JISC supports education by providing strategic guidance, advice and opportunities to use Information and Communications Technology (ICT) to support teaching, learning, research and administration.
Online Archive of Britain's Migration Story.
Strategic body working with and for museums, archives and Libraries to tap the potential for collaboration.
Une réalisation de La Vitrine APO (Applications Pédagogiques de l'Ordinateur) qui regroupe plus de 90 établissements (commissions scolaires, collèges et universités).
Cours, manuels et logiciels éducatifs francophones du monde entier.
Listing of digital Library projects.
IASSIST is an international organization of professionals working in and with information technology and data services to support research and teaching in the social sciences.
MIRALab was created to assemble researchers from several disciplines and to forge links between them in a broad effort to understand human functionality and to simulate it in a realistic way.
Worldwide alliance of research institutions, Libraries and organizations that encourages competition in the scholarly communications market.
The Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE builds digital collections and services. It provides information and support to digital Library developers worldwide.
Conservancy of freely available information on software, music, literature, art, history, science, politics, and cultural studies.
The Library of Congress is the oldest federal cultural institution in the US, and it serves as the research arm of Congress. It is also the largest Library in the world.
Online tools, periodicals and online texts, Library information and more.
Internet producer of electronic books (eBooks or eTexts).
Digitization Summer School for Cultural Heritage Professionals
Canadian Copyright Licencing Agency.
Department of Justice Canada. Act current to March 11, 2009.
CIPO is a Special Operating Agency of Industry Canada. CIPO administers the intellectual property (IP) system in Canada and disseminates IP information.
The Copyright Policy Branch of the Department of Canadian Heritage, in co-operation with the Intellectual Property Policy Directorate of Industry Canada, is responsible for formulating and implementing an integrated Canadian copyright policy.
