Michael Nelson - D-Lib Magazine Pioneered Web-Based Scholarly Communication - Invited Talk

Explore the pioneering role of D-Lib Magazine in web-based scholarly communication through this invited talk by Michael Nelson at JCDL 2022. Delve into the evolution of academic information sharing, from early systems like Netlib and CORE to the game-changing introduction of NCSA Mosaic in 1993. Examine the impact of the NSF/DARPA/NASA Digital Libraries Initiative and the adoption of landing page paradigms by publishers. Investigate D-Lib Magazine's experimental nature, its peers like Ariadne and First Monday, and its position between a magazine and a journal. Discover the magazine's numerous innovations, including HTML implementation, open access, persistent content and layout, URLs, identifiers, metadata, and mirror sites. Learn about the first issue's significant contributions, such as introducing Dublin Core and the Digital Libraries Initiative. Gain insights into the future research needs identified in the early days of digital scholarly communication.

D-Lib Magazine pioneered Web-based Scholarly Communication
Academic Information Should be Free
D-Lib Magazine's Most Prolific Contributors
Netlib: software via email
CORE: a variety of pre-Web hypertext systems
Anonymous FTP: the original institutional repository
NCSA Mosaic changed everything in 1993
NSF/DARPA/NASA Digital Libraries Initiative
Publishers Adopt Landing Page Paradigm
Scholarship is Still Not Web-Native
D-Lib Magazine as an Experiment
D-Lib Magazine's Peers: Ariadne
D-Lib Magazine's Peers: First Monday
265 issues & 1062 articles: Somewhere between a magazine and a journal
Innovations: HTML
Our Experimentations with D-Lib
Innovations: Open Access
Innovations: Persistent Content & Layout
Innovations: Persistent URLs
Innovations: Persistent Identifiers
Innovations: Metadata
Innovations: Mirror Sites
First Issue: Dublin Core
First Issue: DLI & DL12
First Issue: KWF & DOI
To the Editor
First Issue: What's needed in future research?
Conclusions