Discover Digital Libraries

Discover Digital Libraries

Discover Digital Libraries: Theory and Practice is a book that integrates both research and practice concerning digital library development, use, preservation, and evaluation. The combination of current research and practical guidelines is a unique strength of this book. The authors bring in-depth expertise on different digital library issues and synthesize theoretical and practical perspectives relevant to researchers, practitioners, and students. The book presents a comprehensive overview of the different approaches and tools for digital library development, including discussions of the social and legal issues associated with digital libraries. Readers will find current research and the best practices of digital libraries, providing both US and international perspectives on the development of digital libraries and their components, including collection, digitization, metadata, interface design, sustainability, preservation, retrieval, and evaluation of digital libraries. - Offers an overview of digital libraries and the conceptual and practical understanding of digital libraries - Presents the lifecycle of digital library design, use, preservation and evaluation, including collection development, digitization of static and multimedia resources, metadata, digital library development and interface design, digital information searching, digital preservation, and digital library evaluation - Synthesizes current research and the best practices of digital libraries, providing both US and international perspectives on the development of digital libraries - Introduces new developments in the area of digital libraries, such as large-scale digital libraries, social media applications in digital libraries, multilingual digital libraries, digital curation, linked data, rapid capture, guidelines for the digitization of multimedia resources - Highlights the impact, challenges, suggestions for overcoming these challenges, and trends of present and future development of digital librariesOffers a comprehensive bibliography for each chapter

Digital Libraries

The challenge of integration - the need for integration; problems; opportunities; Standards necessary for integration - general (communication, authentication, data interchange); library specific; emerging; Enabling technology - web servers; scripting languages; databases; data interchange technology; Authentication and security - obstacles to authentication; directory services; data, network and server security; Interfacing with integrated library systems - emerging ILS roles; data exchange and interoperability; Licensed electronic resource management - functions and examples of electronic resource management systems; Digital asset management - types and functions of digital asset management systems; integration of digital asset management systems; search integration of digital asset management system content; digital collection assessment and development; Integration with content providers - federated searching; resolvers; expanding role of search engines; Web portals - roles of a library web site; commercial vs. locally designed content management systems; usability; Positioning for the future - possibilities and limitations of planning; organizational structure and design of digital libraries; staff needed to build and support digital libraries; developing and maintaining the expertise to meet future challenges.

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