[Web4lib] DLIST Advisory Board and DL-Harvest Established

[Anita S. Coleman]

*****Apologies for cross posting*****

Name: Anita Coleman
Phone: (520) 621-3565
Email: asc at u.arizona.edu

We are pleased to announce the establishment of an Advisory Board for
DLIST, Digital Library for Information Science and Technology, and
delighted to invite the community to explore DL-Harvest.

The members of the first DLIST Advisory Board are:

Subiah Arunachalam, Distinguished Fellow, M S Swaminathan Research
Foundation, Chennai, India

Julia Blixrud, Assistant Executive Director, Association for Research
Libraries, Washington, DC

Rachel Bower, Co-Director, The Internet Scout Project, Madison, Wisconsin

Michael Gorman, Dean of Library Services, California State University,
Fresno, California

Birger Hjorland, Research Professor, Royal School of Library and
Information Science Copenhagen, Denmark

Christopher Khoo, Programme Director and Associate Professor, School of
Communication & Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Scott Nicholson, Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies,
Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York

Biographical sketches of the DLIST Advisory Board members are available at
http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/advisoryboard.html. The Advisory Board is
helping DLIST build a dynamic public domain for the library and
information professions and disciplines.

DL-Harvest is a federated archive, an open aggregator service of DLIST. It
brings together full-text, scholarly materials in the Information Sciences
from many different OAI-PMH compliant repositories. DL-Harvest is using
PKP Harvester with software improvements for flow control, sets, and
advanced searching, that have been developed by DLIST Graduate Research
Assistant, Joseph Roback. Besides DLIST, the current list of 11 archives
harvested includes selective harvesting from ArXiV. DL-Harvest is
available at http://dlharvest.sir.arizona.edu.

DLIST, http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/, is a service of the School of
Information Resources and Library Science and the Learning Technologies
Center, University of Arizona.  Seed monies for DLIST are from the
University of Arizona College of Social and Behavioral Sciences and the
Proposition 301 funded initiative of the Internet Technology Commerce and
Design Institute, now the Arizona Center for Information Science and
Technology. DLIST is running on EPrints2 archive-creating software, which
generates eprints archives that are compliant with the Open Archives
Protocol for Metadata Harvesting OAI v2.0.