Lesk - Chapter 11, Intellectual Property Rights
One bit of insightful information in this piece was its articulation of Bridgeman Art Library, Ltd. v. Corel Corp., 36 F. Supp. 2d 191. Lesk perceives this case as holding a photograph of an artwork is not copyrightable if the photograph was routinely taken just to depict the artwork. This is especially important for digital libraries which routinely digitize images of important works of art.
Another potential pitfall for English-language digital libraries is the United Kingdom's protection over "typographic arrangement." Because a public domain book may be set in a protected typeset, one may need to look into legal issues before digitizing certain books.
Muddiest Point: What is the best resource/book for librarians to turn for copyright help, for large digitization projects?
Stiglitz - Intellectual Property Rights and Wrongs
Stiglitz reminds us that when designing a digital library, we must take into account how users from less advantaged regions may access our material. We should champion open-source software and open-access scholarship while maintaining high quality. In fact, this has already been down. Both DSpace and ContentDM are OS software available to librarians who have an Internet connection.
Lynch - Where Do We Go from Here?
Lynch does an excellent job of summarizing the history of digital libraries. I am glad he acknowledges the crucial role played by government-funded and led initiatives. Very often, a national government can play a pivotal role in innovation. Innovation is not the exclusive domain of decentralized lone rangers.
Second, Lynch raises many good fields of research for others to pursue in the future. However, because this article is a little old, 2005, many of these fields of research -- personal information management, long term relationships between humans and information collections and systems (e.g., human computer interaction) -- have already become well developed.
Knowledge Lost in Information - Report
The Ubiquitous Knowledge Environment, or "information ether," is now becoming a reality. I believe the scope of digital libraries includes cloud-supported libraries of videos and music. These are now readily accessible at a moment's touch from any area which is wireless supported. Also, Google Print permits one to add devices and then to print from one's Gmail account anywhere one is able to access it.
Even though these may not seem research-related, these above technologies represent "individualized, customized, human-centric computing."
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