
Discover Digital Libraries
Theory and Practice
- 1st Edition - July 21, 2016
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Authors: Iris Xie, Krystyna Matusiak
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 4 1 7 1 1 2 - 1
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 4 2 0 1 0 5 - 7
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Request a sales quoteDiscover 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
Researchers, designers, librarians, teachers, and graduate students who are interested in digital library development and evaluation
1. Introduction to Digital Libraries2. Digital Library Collection Development3. Digitization of Text and Still Images4. Digitization of Audio and Moving Image Collections5. Metadata6. Digital Library Management Systems7. Interface Design and Evaluation8. User Needs and Search Behaviors9. Digital Preservation10. Evaluation of Digital Libraries11. New Developments and Challenges
AppendixA. Digitization Guides, Standards, and Best PracticesB. Examples of Metadata Schemas Reviewed in Chapter 5
- Edition: 1
- Published: July 21, 2016
- No. of pages (Hardback): 388
- No. of pages (eBook): 388
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN: 9780124171121
- eBook ISBN: 9780124201057
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