What is the user community(-ies)?
Alexandria Digital Library (ADL) provides access to its collection of gazetteer, databases, maps, documents and photographs via its specialized technology. The users of the digital library are students, researchers, faculty members and other people for general public who are interested in science. Users are able to search through various catalogues and collect information they are interested in. Users are able to create collection level metadata, map item-level metadata and locate item images.
Who are stakeholders (sponsors, partners)? Who actually operates this digital library?
The digital library is one of the Digital Library Initiatives. It has many partners in various industries and academia. It works closely with University of California at Santa Barbara, State University of New York at Buffalo, University of Maine California Digital Library, HYPERLINK "http://www.religion.ucsb.edu/" Center for the Study of Sacred Sites (CASS) , HYPERLINK "http://www.dlese.org/" Digital Library of Earth Systems Education (DLESE) , HYPERLINK "http://www.esri.com/" Environmental Systems Research (ESRI) , HYPERLINK "http://www.gatech.edu/" Georgia Tech University , HYPERLINK "http://www.informix.com/" Informix , HYPERLINK "http://www.mapinfo.com/" MapInfo , Nanyang Technological University, HYPERLINK "http://www.nps.gov/" National Park Service , Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Operational Support Web (NAVOCEANO), HYPERLINK "http://www.oracle.com/" Oracle , HYPERLINK "http://www.geog.uu.nl/pcraster/" PCRaster , HYPERLINK "http://www.sdsc.edu/" San Diego Supercomputer Center , HYPERLINK "http://www.sgi.com/" SGI , HYPERLINK "http://www.scec.org/" Southern California Earthquake Center , HYPERLINK "http://www.sri.com/" SRI International , HYPERLINK "http://www.stanford.edu/" Stanford University , HYPERLINK "http://www.sun.com/" Sun Microsystems , HYPERLINK "http://www.abdn.ac.uk/" University of Aberdeen , University of California ( HYPERLINK "http://www.ucla.edu/" Los Angeles , HYPERLINK "http://www.ucsb.edu/" Santa Barbara , HYPERLINK "http://www.berkeley.edu/" Berkeley ), HYPERLINK "http://www.usgs.gov/" US Geological Survey and HYPERLINK "http://www.geog.uu.nl/" Utrecht University . The digital library is constantly seeking partnership from evolving and existing industries. In order to make the library work effectively, some divisions are involved in the project. The divisions are Metadata Administration, Software Developers and workshops (like NZADL workshop). Workshops include division of the use of R-Structures and Information Management Systems.
How is the digital library funded? Is it sustainable?
The digital library was established in 1994 and has been mainly funded by National Science Foundation, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The funding of the development of the library under the NSF DLI2 initiative is ended till 2006. Since all these organizations were funded enough to keep their projects alive, we may see that ADL was no exception. The support is now provided by Davidson Library UCSB.
How does the Digital Library interoperate/cooperate with other Digital Libraries?
The library has a number of developed technological mechanisms to cooperate with other digital libraries. Various collaboration software has been used between digital libraries affiliated to …