David Seaman

David Seaman
Syracuse University | SU

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Introduction
David Seaman is the Dean of Libraries and University Librarian at Syracuse University. Prior to that he was Associate Librarian for Information Management at Dartmouth College Library (2006-2015), the Executive Director of the Digital Library Federation (DLF) (2002-2006), and the founding Director of the Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia Library (1992-2002). For more information, please see David’s LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/david-seaman/6/a7a/900

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Publications (86)
Conference Paper
To make sure Special collections maintain relevance, Dartmouth has undertaken the following: 1) Investment: new teaching and digital library positions. 2) Active learning: program that attracts undergraduates to the library to work with primary objects (broader than the humanities only). 3) Research: support of undergraduate work as research as we...
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<http://vimeo.com/album/2611239/video/79505432> <http://www.elementascience.org/>
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<https://openaccess.unt.edu/symposium/2013/sessions> Discussion of the partnership between BioOne and Dartmouth College to launch "Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene" <http://www.elementascience.org/>. Such a campus publishing partnership fits well with BioOne’s and Dartmouth College Library’s missions and it engages the academic library more de...
Technical Report
<http://www.dartmouth.edu/~library/admin/docs/DartmouthNextGen2013.pdf> The Dartmouth College Library is ambitious to select, acquire, describe, curate, and deliver collections and services in a manner that is deeply integrated into the working lives of our users, and which results in excellent research and teaching. We place a premium on convenien...
Conference Paper
Drawing on a multi-year planning process, this presentation lays out a new Digital Program infrastructure at Dartmouth College and related policies in selection, preservation, and rights management. The Dartmouth Digital Library Program encompasses the strategic digitization of locally-held items and collections with the publishing of born-digital...
Conference Paper
A enriched partnership between Dartmouth’s Library and Computing Services to coordinate research, curricular, and information services for faculty. Three resource teams – for Sciences, Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities – are formalizing relationships between the subject, publishing, copyright, and media experts in the Library and the curricular...
Article
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march11/seaman/03seaman.html Through in-person interviews with humanities faculty members, this study examines what information needs are expressed by humanities scholars that an institutional repository (IR) can address. It also asks what concerns humanists have about IRs, and whether there is a repository model other than...
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Keynote speaker.
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Advancing Scholarly Communities in the Brave New World.
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Co-authored with Cyndy Pawlek. http://dx.doi.org/10.1629/2268
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Panel explores new technology, media. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ky63rRn2V_4 http://thedartmouth.com/2009/02/24/panel-explores-new-technology-media/ Marc Dixon (Dartmouth) Patricia Anderson (Dartmouth -- Economics) Bill Phillips (Dartmouth -- Film Studies) Elliot Marder (attorney) David Seaman (Dartmouth Library)
Chapter
This chapter demonstrates, libraries can provide literary scholars and students with collections that are increasingly a rich and complex hybrid of analog and digital resources, and librarians can function as willing allies in the exploration of new teaching techniques, research collaborations, analytical tools, and scholarly communications channel...
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Competitors and Collaborators: Striking a Balance.
Article
変化しつつある図書館: 動き, モジュール化, 順応性 デジタルライブラリー連盟専務理事 デビッド・シーマン
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Moderator and presenter.
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Broadcast 16 March 2005.
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Overview of the work of the Digital Library Federation; major trends in digital libraries. We need to think strategically and focus on our core mission to advance pedagogy and scholarship; any library that can be replaced by Google, should be. The transformation from isolation to integration is our central challenge and opportunity– with some en...
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Keynote speaker.
Book
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/60604751 TABLE OF CONTENTS Session I: Will Publishers be the Twenty-First Century’s Ancien Régime? John Feldcamp. "Will Publishers Be the Twenty-First Century’s Ancien Régime?" Joseph Reynolds. "Content, Context, and the Publishing Kingdom in the Twenty-First Century." Patricia Schroeder. "Publishers, Copyright, and t...
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Academic institutions are beginning to create digital institutional repositories into which the intellectual capital of a college or university can be preserved for reuse—gathering up not just the articles and books of the completed scholarly endeavor but also the data sets, presentations, and course-related materials that faculty generate. As this...
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DO IT is based on the sale of our public airwaves. Its ambitions are transformational, driving massive digitizing of library and museum holdings and funding the research needed to create the tools and services that professors, teachers, and citizens need to use digital material in new ways.This proposed $20-billion trust would come from a portion o...
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This article is about the so-called 'data-silo' phenomenon, in which content is isolated by the publisher or aggregator, and which generates an unreasonable cluster of destination points for the harried student or professor to visit, each with its own interface, set of functions and behaviors. A user has no confidence that what one can do on Site A...
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L'univers du livre a ete modifie par l'augmentation massive de l'edition electronique et la venue de media autres que le Web, - Palm Pilots et autres Personal Digital Assistants. Pour repondre a la demande en e-books (livres electroniques) et en lecteurs d'e-books, le E Text Center de l'University of Virginia, qui fournit des documents electronique...
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Moderator, plenary session.
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The Digital Library Federation is a consortium of research libraries and related organizations in the United States that are pioneering in the use of electronic-information technologies. Each of the DLF's members, mostly research libraries, contributes to a capital fund and an annual budget to support the organization, which is administered by a di...
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With Lynne Brindley (British Library) and Jay Jordan (OCLC).
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When libraries acquire electronic resources from publishers or vendors, they must understand, record, transmit, and inform others about the many financial, legal, inter-relational, and access aspects of these arrangements. The acquisitions and licensing processes are complex, publishers transmit this information to libraries in a variety of paper a...
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The DLF provides a space for librarians and others to collaborate on issues of common interest, from policy questions to digitizing standards, from cataloging standards to software development. 2002 DLF projects include: sponsorship (with the Getty Grant Program) of Visual Resources Association to compile a manual that may be used to describe, docu...
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Keynote presentation. University of Karlskrona. Ronneby, Sweden.
Article
In 1996 the National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a joint grant to the University of California at Berkeley, Duke University, Stanford University, and the University of Virginia to produce a body of Encoded Archival Description (EAD) finding aids and to test the assumption that a collection of such guides could function both as a local reso...
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http://www.dl.slis.tsukuba.ac.jp/DLjournal/No_9/ http://www.dl.slis.tsukuba.ac.jp/DLjournal/No_9/3e_kstubbs/3-kstubbs-e.html ISSN 1340-7287
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http://www.dl.slis.tsukuba.ac.jp/DLjournal/No_9/ http://www.dl.slis.tsukuba.ac.jp/DLjournal/No_9/4e_etext/4-etext-e.html ISSN 1340-7287
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http://www.dl.slis.tsukuba.ac.jp/DLjournal/No_9/ http://www.dl.slis.tsukuba.ac.jp/DLjournal/No_9/3j_kstubbs/3-kstubbs-j.html ISSN 1340-7287
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http://www.dl.slis.tsukuba.ac.jp/DLjournal/No_9/ http://www.dl.slis.tsukuba.ac.jp/DLjournal/No_9/4j_etext/4-etext-j.html ISSN 1340-7287
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The Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia has been mounting SGML full-text databases on-line since 1992, and actively building a user community around this Internet resource. Conceiving of what we do as firmly a library operation, we have sought to integrate the electronic text databases into the training, cataloging, preservation, a...
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The Electron. Text Ctr. at the Univ. of Virginia Combines an Online Archive of Thousands of SGML-encoded Electron. Texts, All Available Through A Single Piece of Search Software, with A Lib.-based Ctr. Housing Hardware and Software Suitable for the Creation and Anal. of Text. Through Ongoing Train. Sessions and Support of Individual Teach. and Res....
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As part of an on‐going commitment to the use of computers in education and research, the University of Virginia (UVa) Library has established an Electronic Text Center and an online collection of machine‐readable texts. Open since September 1992, the Center collects and prepares texts for inclusion into our online text service, makes available hard...
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Proceedings from The Visions and Opportunities Symposium in December 1992, Washington DC.
Book
Compiler. Boxed floppy disk. [Kidd’s print version was published in The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 82 (1988): 411 584.] http://sites.dartmouth.edu/dseaman/archive/electronic-ulysses/

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