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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
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780124201057 |
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Publisher: | Elsevier Science |
Publication date: | 07/26/2016 |
Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
Format: | eBook |
Pages: | 388 |
Sales rank: | 927,180 |
File size: | 19 MB |
Note: | This product may take a few minutes to download. |
About the Author
Dr. Matusiak is an Assistant Professor in the Library&Information Science Program at the University of Denver. Her research interests focus on digitization of cultural heritage materials, indexing and retrieval of digital images, information behavior, use of digital libraries, and research methods. She combines practical experience in digitization and digital collections with research interests in use and evaluation of digital libraries. She has been involved in digitization of cultural heritage materials since 2001. Prior to accepting her position at the University of Denver, she worked as a Digital Collections Librarian at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee where she planned and designed over 20 distinct digital collections. She served as a co-investigator of the digitization project, funded by the National Endowment for Humanities, “Saving and Sharing the American Geographical Society Library’s Historic Nitrate Negative Images. She also served as a digitization consultant for projects funded by the Endangered Archive Programme at the British Library and assisted digital library projects at the Press Institute of Mongolia in Ulan Baatar, Mongolia and the Al-Aqsa Mosque Library in East Jerusalem. Her research projects include studies of information seeking behavior in digital collections, use of image and multimedia resources, and user interaction with large-scale digital libraries. She has published a number of articles on those topics and presented at national and international conferences. Dr. Matusiak contributes to this book her expertise in digitization, audiovisual materials, metadata, digital preservation, digital library management systems as well as her practical knowledge in building and managing digital collections.
Table of Contents
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
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This helpful reference provides current research on—and best practices for—digital libraries, including collection development, digitalization, organization, design, sustainability, preservation, retrieval, and evaluation, including new information on the social and legal issues associated with digital libraries and the application of social media