Building Digital Libraries: A How-to-Do-It Manual - Softcover

Terry Reese; Kyle Banerjee

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9781555706173: Building Digital Libraries: A How-to-Do-It Manual
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1555706177 ISBN 13: 9781555706173
Publisher: Neal Schuman Publishers, 2007

Synopsis

Librarians embarking on the challenge of building a digital collection have their work cut out for them and here is the book to help launch and complete the mission! Easy to understand, this guide demonstrates how resources are created, distributed, and accessed and how librarians can keep up with the latest technologies for successfully completing these tasks. Chapters walk you step-by-step through all of the stages. This how-to offers detailed advice for: planning for and assessing the purpose of your digital repository; acquiring, processing, classifying, and describing digital content; storing documents; choosing a platform; specific technologies useful repositories (XML, SOAP, and more); sharing data; federated searching of repositories; understanding issues with allowing/restricting access to information; analyzing repository use, and migrating to other platforms and accommodating new types of data. Librarians looking for a timely, comprehensive guide to creating a digital collection will find this book an invaluable resource.

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This volume in the Neal-Schuman How-To-Do-It Manual series offers step-by-step instruction on building digital repositories. The opening chapter provides an excellent overview of the topic, answering basic questions on the purpose and planning of these repositories. The following chapters detail the architecture, format, and technical issues involved in its creation. Each chapter concludes with a helpful bibliography; screen shots and schematic illustrations enhance the text. The final chapter provides thoughtful advice for future planning. Written by two experts, this book is aimed at systems librarians and others with sophisticated computer expertise. Librarians who are more interested in the content of digital libraries than the infrastructure will be grateful to the authors for writing this important work for their computer-savvy colleagues. --Donald Altschiller

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Publisher
Neal Schuman Publishers
Publication date
2007
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1555706177
ISBN 13 
9781555706173
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
277
Rating
  • 3.45 out of 5 stars
    11 ratings by Goodreads