Research Article: “A 25 Year Retrospective on D-Lib Magazine” (Preprint)

The following article (preprint) was recently posted on arXiv.

Title

A 25 Year Retrospective on D-Lib Magazine

Authors

Michael L. Nelson
Old Dominion University
Norfolk, Virginia

Herbert Van de Sompel
Data Archiving and Networked Services
The Hague, Netherlands

Source

via arXiv
August 28, 2020

Abstract

In July, 1995 the first issue of D-Lib Magazine was published as an on-line, HTML-only, open access magazine, serving as the focal point for the then emerging digital library research community. In 2017 it ceased publication, in part due to the maturity of the community it served as well as the increasing availability of and competition from eprints, institutional repositories, conferences, social media, and online journals — the very ecosystem that D-Lib Magazine nurtured and enabled. As long-time members of the digital library community and authors with the most contributions to D-Lib Magazine, we reflect on the history of the digital library community and D-Lib Magazine, taking its very first issue as guidance. It contained three articles, which described: the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set, a project status report from the NSF/DARPA/NASA-funded Digital Library Initiative (DLI), and a summary of the Kahn-Wilensky Framework (KWF) which gave us, among other things, Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs). These technologies, as well as many more described in D-Lib Magazine through its 23 years, have had a profound and continuing impact on the digital library and general web communities.

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