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The e-Depot is a digital archiving environment that ensures long-term access to digital objects which would otherwise be threatened by rapidly evolving software and hardware platforms as well as media decay. It is the dedicated archiving environment for the KB's national electronic deposit collection. In addition, it will include the Dutch web archive and digitised master images. In line with the international nature of information provision, the KB has extended its e-Depot services to publishers worldwide. The e-Depot is supported by sustained research and development efforts geared towards maintaining the integrity of stored digital objects.

How an online application could change research communication.

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"Organizing the OCA: Learning faceted subjects from a library of digital books. David Mimno and Andrew McCallum. Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) 2007, Vancouver, BC, Canada. PDF The Open Content Alliance is one of several large-scale digitization projects currently producing huge numbers of digital books. Statistical topic models are a natural choice for organizing and describing such large text corpora, but scalability becomes a problem when we are dealing with multi-billion word corpora. This paper presents a new method for topic modeling, DCM-LDA. In this model, we train an independent topic model for every book, using pages as "documents". We then gather the topics discovered, cluster them, and then fit a Dirichlet prior for each topic cluster. Finally, we retrain the individual book topic models using these new shared topics. " via Dan Cohen working on virtual shelves project, using information within texts (OCA) as organizing principle instead of LCSH; former Perseus programmer

The INKE group is comprised of researchers and stakeholders at the forefront of computing in the humanities, text analysis, information studies, usability and interface design. The network is led by Canadian scholars, but includes members from the USA and the UK. It is comprised of those who are best-poised to understand the nature of the human record as it intersects with the computer. Our work is divided into four key research groupings: textual studies, user experience, interface design, and information management.