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The Profiles in Science Digital Library: Behind the Scenes
Marie E Gallagher1, Christie Moffatt
1U.S. National Library of Medicine, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894 USA, +1 301 435 3252, mgallagher@mail.nih.gov.
Proceedings of the ... ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries
|April 2, 2013
Summary
The Profiles in Science digital library offers digitized personal collections of biomedical researchers and health professionals. This system ensures quality control and public access to valuable scientific historical records.
Area of Science:
- Biomedical Informatics
- Digital Libraries
- History of Science
Background:
- The need for accessible archives of prominent biomedical researchers' personal collections.
- The development of digital libraries for preserving and disseminating scientific heritage.
- Challenges in managing diverse digital content and ensuring data integrity.
Purpose of the Study:
- To demonstrate the Profiles in Science digital library system.
- To showcase the digitization and management of personal manuscript collections.
- To provide public access to historical biomedical research materials.
Main Methods:
- Digitizing personal manuscript collections including papers, photographs, and audio-visual materials.
- Implementing a digital library system with rules for digitization, metadata creation, and quality control.
- Utilizing optical character recognition (OCR) for text data and managing annotations.
Main Results:
- A comprehensive digital library containing diverse data types: metadata, digitized items, OCR text, and annotations.
- A system for tracking item status, including digitization quality, content sensitivity, and copyright.
- Public access to selected digital content via the Profiles in Science website.
Conclusions:
- The Profiles in Science digital library successfully provides access to digitized historical biomedical research.
- The system adheres to established digital library development principles for content management and delivery.
- External factors have shaped the infrastructure and functionality of the digital library.
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