Purpose – This review aims to provide a snapshot of digital library research of the past 11 years (1997‐2007) that focuses on organisational and people issues, including those concerning the social/cultural, legal, ethical, and use dimensions. Design/methodology/approach – The review...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to evaluate current approaches to assessing digitisation activities in memory institutions. Design/methodology/approach – Qualitative and quantitative analysis of digitisation surveys were performed. Analysis concentrated on several themes: general...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to point out the commonalities of research in digital libraries and digital preservation with regard to the issues of users and context of information. Design/methodology/approach – The paper's approach is a review of selected literature and reports of...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to produce figures showing the carbon footprint of the knowledge industry – from creation to distribution and use of knowledge, and to provide comparative figures for digital distribution and access. Design/methodology/approach – An extensive...

Purpose – This paper aims to present an evaluation of open source OCR for supporting research on material in small‐ to medium‐scale historical archives. Design/methodology/approach – The approach was to develop a workflow engine to support the easy customisation of the OCR process...