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I manage this Web site and the following Web sites: Leslie (Blakeley) Adkins - my oldest daughter

Lori Ann Blakeley (June 20, 1985 - May 4, 2005) - my middle daughter

Evan Blakeley- my youngest child

Digital Library Initiatives

"The ease with which electronic information can be created and "published" makes much of what is available today, gone tomorrow. Thus there is an urgent need to preserve this information before it is forever lost." - National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program, a collaborative initiative of the Library of Congress, http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/index.php

National Digital Strategy Advisory Board Members

Digital Libraries Initiative Phase I (1994 1998, now replaced by Phase II)

(National Science Foundation (NSF)/The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)/The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) now a part of the Directorate for Computer and Information Sciences and Engineering (CISE) )

Focused on dramatically advancing the means to collect, store, and organize information in digital forms, and make it available for searching, retrieval, and processing via communication networks

Six projects at University of California Berkeley (image focused); Carnegie-Mellon University (video indexing); University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (automatic classification algorithms/scientific journals); University of Michigan (agent based search/retrieval); University of California at Santa Barbara (geographical map indexing); and Stanford University (heterogenous/federated search/retrieval).

Digital Libraries Initiative Phase II

The Library of Congress is pleased to participate as a sponsor of the Digital Libraries Initiative - Phase II announced by the National Science Foundation (NSF) in February 1998. In addition to NSF, the Library of Congress joins the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the National Library of Medicine (NLM), The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and the National Endowment for the Humanities in sponsoring this second phase of the Digital Libraries Initiative. The Library of Congress is committed to digital libraries not only as an expansion of the traditional service offered by the nation's libraries but also as a new resource created by many hands and accessible via national and international computer networks.

The Digital Libraries Initiative - Phase II is intended to extend the research carried out during the initial awards announced in 1994, then sponsored by the National Science Foundation, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and the National Aeronautical and Space Administration. The first phase funded six research projects over a five-year period and signaled the beginning of a national conversation about digital libraries, promoting discussion of "the

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Plans for the next steps in this important initiative were made in a 1996 workshop whose participants agreed that research should be conducted with real collections and real users in mind.  For more information, consult Digital Libraries Report of the Santa Fe Planning Workshop on Distributed Knowledge Work Environments (printed report at http://www.si.umich.edu/SantaFe/report.html).

The Phase II initiative includes content providers among the sponsors, thus guaranteeing the availability of a testbed that researchers may use to validate new technology in collections-and user-centered environments.  For this purpose, the Library of Congress is offering many of its American Memory collections, a substantial body of multimedia content: document and pictorial images, searchable text, recorded sound, maps, and motion pictures.  The Library hopes the research and collaborative efforts that emerge during the Digital Libraries Initiative - Phase II will lead to new technologies, new practices, and new communities of collection producers, content shapers, and end-users.  By stimulating a dialog among the tool builders, the content providers, and the users of digital materials, we hope to establish a tighter feedback loop for sharing findings associated with building, maintaining, using, and sustaining digital libraries.