http://www.library.cornell.edu/library/cdl.html
"Cornell University created a Digital Library (CDL) to preserve and
provide wide access to library materials. Orginally planned as a way to
preserve deteriorating library materials already owned by Cornell University
Library, the CDL is expanding to include recent scientific journals, dissertations,
research papers, and historical materials of interest to scholars and the
public"
http://purl.org/dc/
"The Dublin Core has become an important part of the emerging infrastructure
of the Internet. Many communities are eager to adopt a common core of semantics
for resource description, and the Dublin Core has attracted broad ranging
international and interdisciplinary support for this purpose."
http://www.clir.org/diglib/dlfhomepage.htm
"The Digital Library Federation (DLF) is a consortium of research libraries
that are transforming themselves and their institutional roles by exploiting
network and digital technologies. By working together they leverage their
collective reputations, investments, and research and development capacities
in order to:"