Building Digital Libraries (How-To-Do-It Manuals)

Banerjee, Kyle; Reese, Terry

ISBN 10: 083891635X / ISBN 13: 9780838916353

Published by ALA Neal-Schuman, 2018

About this Item

Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly!

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Building Digital Libraries (How-To-Do-It Manuals)
• Publisher: ALA Neal-Schuman
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 083891635X
• ISBN 13: 9780838916353
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: good

About this title

Synopsis

"This top-to-bottom resource is the ideal guidebook to keep at your side. Demystifying core technologies and workflows, its chapters walk you step-by-step through needs assessment and planning for a digital repository; acquiring processing, classifying, and describing digital content; storing and managing resources in a digital repository; technologies and standards useful to digital repositories, including XML, the Portland Common Data Model, metadata schema such as Dublin Core, scripting using JSON and REST, linked open data, and automated metadata assignment; and analyzing repository use, planning for the future, migrating to new platforms, and accommodating new types of data" --

About the Author

Kyle Banerjee has twenty years of library experience and extensive systems knowledge. He has planned and written software to support library systems migration since 1996. He is the coauthor of Building Digital Libraries (2008) and Digital Libraries: Content and Systems (2006), and is the author of numerous other publications. Terry Reese is the head of digital initiatives at the Ohio State University Libraries. Over the past seventeen years, his research interests have centered on the changing nature of library metadata and the ways in which this data can be reused and transformed in different contexts. He is the author and creator of MarcEdit, a cross-platform library metadata editing tool that is designed to lower the technical barriers for users working with various forms of library metadata. He is the coauthor of Building Digital Libraries (2008), and author of numerous other publications.