An electronic publication with a primary focus on digital library research and development. http://www.dlib.org/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1045/july2008-editorial "I'd like to salute those who do so much so well to make conferences like JCDL, the European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL), the International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL), and others the terrific events they are." Editorial by Bonita Wilson, CNRI. http://dx.doi.org/10.1045/july2008-hirtle "This paper discusses the impact that copyright restoration of foreign works has had on US copyright status investigations, and offers some new steps that users must follow in order to investigate the copyright status in the US of any work." Articles by Peter B. Hirtle, Cornell University. http://dx.doi.org/10.1045/july2008-guenther "Many institutions use the Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS) to implement metadata in digital library applications. Since an important goal is the exchange of objects with their associated metadata between repositories, many implementers of PREMIS are looking at METS as a container to include PREMIS metadata along with other information about and links to the digital objects. To do this, the ambiguities in using PREMIS with METS need to be clarified in a set of guidelines." Article by Rebecca S. Guenther, Library of Congress, Network Development & MARC Standards Office. http://dx.doi.org/10.1045/july2008-buonora "...JPEG 2000 may be considered a format that can guarantee an efficient robustness to bit errors and offers a valid quality with transmission or physical errors: this point of view is confirmed by the case study results that we report in this article, concerning image quality after occurrence of random errors by a comparison among different file formats." Article by Paolo Buonora, Archivi di Stato and Franco Liberati, Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza". http://dx.doi.org/10.1045/july2008-weaver "The University of Queensland (UQ) maintains an online research profiling system, UQ Researchers, to showcase the expertise of its academic staff and postgraduate students....it was decided to compare the functionality of a social networking service with that of UQ Researchers to identify any gaps in the UQ research profiling service and to arrive at some recommendations for improving it." Article by Belinda Weaver, UQ eSpace. http://dx.doi.org/10.1045/july2008-hagedorn "This report is a follow-up to the McCown et al. article in IEEE Internet Computing two years ago, in which the researchers investigated the percentage of URLs from OAI records in Google, Yahoo and MSN search indexes. We were interested in whether Google in particular had increased the number of OAI-based resources in its search index." Project Update by Kat Hagedorn and Joshua Santelli, University of Michigan Libraries. http://dx.doi.org/10.1045/july2008-morris "At a conference where ideas about the theory and practice of information engineering in digital libraries would be presented, it was particularly appropriate to meet in a city where both the practical and theoretical knowledge of engineering have played major roles." Conference Report by Carol Minton Morris, Cornell University. http://dx.doi.org/10.1045/july2008-pickens "Recently, researchers in the Human Computer Interaction (HCI) and Information Retrieval (IR) communities have begun to develop new tools, algorithms, and systems to facilitate collaborative search. This workshop was particularly timely, considering that the two most common uses of Internet technologies are communication and search; collaborative information retrieval systems exist at the intersection of these two trends. The event brought together researchers from the HCI, IR, and Library Science communities, in both industry and academia, to define and discuss this emerging area." Conference Report by Jeremy Pickens and Gene Golovchinsky, FXPAL and Meredith Ringel Morris, Microsoft Research. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july08/07inbrief.html#WILDEMUTH http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july08/07inbrief.html#KOSCHER http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july08/07inbrief.html#GALLOWAY