Libraries are spending an increasing amount of their budgets to purchase and create digital content. What will happen to this investment in the next 5 to 10 years? Without a concerted effort, these digital resources could become obsolete. To make today's digital resources available to the researchers of the future, we need to make sure that we preserve this data.

In this talk, we will discuss background and basic principles of digital preservation, including the OAIS reference model, issues with formats and the problems with interactive digital materials. We will also discuss digital preservation activities within the IU Libraries and the DLP and our plans for the future.

Semantic Web starts from late 90s as the original vision of the WWW inventor Tim Berners-Lee. The power of the Semantic Web lies in the potential for interoperability through some well-defined metadata in machine understandable way with logic reasoning support. Layered design principle in the Semantic Web paves the way for reuse. With the evolution of the Web, currently Web 2.0 provides scalable information sharing platform, while the Semantic Web adds valuable machine understandable metadata to enable efficient and automatic way of information sharing and cross-portal communication and collaboration. The combination of the Semantic Web with Web2.0 forms a new momentum for the next web weave coined as Web 3.0 in the New York Times. This talk will go through the footprints of the web evolution and highlights the semantics on the Web.

IU's digitization of the 14,000 early color photographs of Charles Cushman opened the world's eyes to the work of a pioneer amateur in this genre. Beyond its value in exposing to the public beautiful and historically valuable images, the Cushman site also opened a window onto three areas of inquiry: the history of photography, the study of the American built environment, and not least the life of one mysterious man.

This talk focuses on the elusive creator of the Cushman photographs. I will discuss how digital resources, made accessible by IU and other providers, have begun to reveal the contours of an otherwise forgotten life. In my virtual pursuit of this peripatetic artist, I came closer not just to one man's secrets but also to the heart of midcentury America.

The primary examples will be video collected in the Ethnographic Video for Instruction and Analysis Digital Archive project but I won't really focus on technical issues. I plan to discuss issues about these videos involving Intellectual Property, the rights of the groups being filmed, what does "public access" mean and do we really want it for video used for scholarship, revealing "raw" data versus a finished product, the scholarly process of working with and presenting video vs. more traditional methods of scholarship, what does video on the internet mean for traditional pedagogy and is there even such a thing as video scholarship involving field video or other video shot by the scholar and can we arrive at a consensus about the value of such an endeavor. These issues have all been discussed as part of the EVIADA project at one time or another and the project team has attempted to solve some of them. I plan to share some of those solutions as well as pose some questions we don't have answers for yet.

The Scholarly Database (SDB) aims to serve the needs of researchers and practitioners interested in the analysis, modeling, and visualization of large-scale scholarly datasets. The database currently provides access to 11 major datasets such as Medline, U.S. patents, National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health funding awards - a total of about 20 million records. The books, journals, proceedings, patents, grants, technical reports, doctoral and master theses can be cross searched. Results can be downloaded as data dumps for further processing. The online interface at https://sdb.slis.indiana.edu provides full-text search for four databases (MEDLINE, NSF, NIH, USPTO) using Solar. Specifically, it is able to search and filter the contents of these databases using many criteria and search fields, particularly those relevant for scientometric research and science policy practice.

The group behind the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) has recently released a beta specification for a new protocol, entitled Open Archives Initiative Object Reuse and Exchange (OAI-ORE). OAI-ORE "defines standards for the description and exchange of aggregations of Web resources," a need commonly faced by digital libraries. This presentation will provide an introduction to the OAI-ORE data model and serializations of OAI-ORE "resource maps" in Atom and RDF. It will also discuss the movement towards data sharing by digital libraries using mechanisms native to the Web rather than in library-centric, high-value and low adoption protocols.

This session will focus on IUScholarWorks, the collaborative project between the IUB Libraries and Digital Library Program to provide a system-wide repository and open-access journal publishing infrastructure. Other related initiatives that will not be covered in this session include the Archives of Institutional Memory, IUPUI's IDeA, Open Journal System at IUPUI, and IUPUI's eArchives.   The following projects will be highlighted:  the Faculty Annual Report which will include a mechanism for faculty to indicate they wish to deposit their works into the institutional repository (IR); our plans for including digital dissertations into the IR based on the upgrade to DSpace version 1.5x; the addition of new IU journals to OJS (Open Journal System); and statistics gathering and reporting in both the IR and OJS systems throughout IUScholarWorks.