title: TheProfiles in ScienceDigital Library: Behind the Scenes.
abstract: This demonstration shows theProfiles in Science® digital library.Profiles in Sciencecontains digitized selections from the personal manuscript collections of prominent biomedical researchers, medical practitioners, and those fostering science and health. TheProfiles in ScienceWeb site is the delivery mechanism for content derived from the digital library system. The system is designed according to our basic principles for digital library development [1]. The digital library includes the rules and software used for digitizing items, creating and editing database records and performing quality control as well as serving the digital content to the public. Among the types of data managed by the digital library are detailed item-level, collection-level and cross-collection metadata, digitized photographs, papers, audio clips, movies, born-digital electronic files, optical character recognized (OCR) text, and annotations (see Figure 1). The digital library also tracks the status of each item, including digitization quality, sensitivity of content, and copyright. Only items satisfying all required criteria are released to the public through the World Wide Web. External factors have influenced all aspects of the digital library's infrastructure.
authors.affiliation: U.S. National Library of Medicine, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894 USA, +1 301 435 3252, mgallagher@mail.nih.gov.
authors.forename: Marie E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Gallagher
authors.forename: Christie
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Moffatt
keywords: Adaptability; Collection; Design; Digital Library; Digitized Manuscripts; Dissemination; H.3.7 [Information Storage and Retrieval]: Digital Libraries –; Information System; Legal Aspects; Systems issues