Building Digital Libraries

Terry Reese Jr., Kyle Banerjee

ISBN 10: 083891635X / ISBN 13: 9780838916353

Published by Association of College and Research Libraries, US, 2018

About this Item

Whether you're embarking on the challenge of building a digital collection from scratch, or simply need to understand the conceptual and technical challenges of constructing a digital library, this top-to-bottom resource is the ideal guidebook to keep at your side, especially in this thoroughly updated and reworked edition. Demonstrating how resources are created, distributed, and accessed, and how librarians can keep up with the latest technologies for successfully completing these tasks, its chapters walk you step-by-step through every stage. Demystifying core technologies and workflows, this book comprehensively coversneeds assessment and planning for a digital repository;choosing a platform;acquiring, processing, classifying, and describing digital content;storing and managing resources in a digital repository;digital preservation;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;sharing data and metadata;understanding information-access issues, including digital rights management; andanalyzing repository use, planning for the future, migrating to new platforms, and accommodating new types of data.This book will thoroughly orient LIS students and others new to the world of digital libraries, and also ensure that current professionals have the knowledge and guidance necessary to construct a digital repository from its inception.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Building Digital Libraries
• Publisher: Association of College and Research Libraries, US
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 083891635X
• ISBN 13: 9780838916353
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: Second Edition.
• Condition: New
• Weight: 630 grams

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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.