DLF Aquifer
is built upon the DLF mission to enable new research and scholarship through the development and adoption of technical standards and best practices. DLF Aquifer participants leverage shared actions, resources and infrastructures to encourage the creation of digital collections that can be brought together and made accessible across the globe. The DLF Aquifer initiative pushes the limits of the network by maintaining distributed, loosely coupled organizational and technical models.
Beginning with a significant, well-bounded collection of digital content in the area of American culture and life, DLF Aquifer is creating a test-bed of services to support selecting, collecting and providing access to quality digital content within a variety of local technical environments. Grounded in the thinking that libraries add value through the organization of information, DLF Aquifer offers opportunities for collaboration among libraries, with scholars and with partners building repositories, content management systems, course management systems and other solutions that support the scholarly process. Future broader scale collaborations can be modeled on the DLF Aquifer experience.
Current DLF Aquifer Project Status
DLF Aquifer Prototypes
DLF Aquifer Documentation
- How to join DLF Aquifer
- Services Working Group report of the findings from an Institutional Survey of DLF member libraries. The survey, made in August 2005 examines user-services assessment efforts, assesses what services are desired by end users and institutions and looks at how DLF Aquifer might contribute solutions.
- DLF MODS Implementation Guidelines for Cultural Heritage Materials The primary goal of the Aquifer Initiative is to enable distributed content to be used effectively by libraries and scholars for teaching, learning, and research. The provision of rich, shareable metadata for this distributed content is an important step towards this goal. To ensure the Implementation Guidelines are useful and coherent, the Metadata Working Group collected comments and feedback from the wider digital library community. The working group is in the process of reviewing the extensive comments they received and held an interactive Birds of a Feather session at DLF Spring Forum to present the feedback received and changes to the guidelines under consideration.
- DLF Aquifer Business Plan approved by the DLF Board, May 20, 2005
DLF Aquifer Presentations
DLF Aquifer Publications
Send questions or comments to: Katherine Kott, Aquifer Director
Stanford University Libraries and Academic Resources, 1450 Page Mill Road, Palo Alto, CA 94304-8408 Phone: +650 725-1067 Fax: +650 725-4902
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