Digital Libraries - Principles and Practice in a Global Environment

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Digital Libraries - Principles and Practice in a Global Environment systematically examines how digital libraries originate, evolve, and function across worldwide contexts. It covers user access and services, barriers such as technology gaps and language issues, and major digital information source types including full-text materials, metadata systems, and multimedia resources. The book explains key standards and interoperability mechanisms, organization of digital information, interface design, and search and browsing in multilingual settings. Practical implementation topics address planning, selection, security, evaluation, consortia, intellectual property, preservation, and staffing.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryResearch & Report

FormatPDF

Pages299

Reading Time12 h 33 min

AccessFree to download

List of Figures and Table

Preface

Chapter 1 Digital Libraries in Context

Treasures from the World’s Great Libraries

The Rise of Digital Libraries

The Traditional Library

Digital Libraries as a Global Resource

Digital Library Definitions

Why Digital Libraries?

Chapter 2 Digital Libraries: Users and Services

User Access to Digital Libraries

Digital Libraries in Various Institutional Environments

Personalized Digital Libraries

Digital Reference Services

Information Literacy

Barriers to User Access

Chapter 3 Digital Information Sources

Full-Text Materials

Metadata Sources

Multimedia Material

Websites and Quality Issues

Suppliers of Some Digital Information Sources

Creating Digitized Sources

Chapter 4 Standards and Interoperability

Standards

Interoperability

Metadata

Presentation Standards

Digital Object Locators

Protocols

Continuity and Change

Chapter 5 Organizing Access to Digital Information Sources

Software Developed from Library Management Systems

Open Source Software for Digital Library Development

Digital Library Architecture

Chapter 6 Interface Design

Interface Design Principles

Interfaces for Digital Libraries

Interface Developments

Interfaces for Speciﬁc User Communities

Languages and Interface Design

Cultures and Interface Design

Interface Evaluation

Chapter 7 Searching and Browsing

Libraries and Information Seeking

Searching

Browsing

Searching Multilingual Collections

Searching Visual and Sound Sources

User Feedback on Searching and Browsing

Chapter 8 Practical Issues

The Management of Change

Users’ Needs

Planning

Requirement Speciﬁcation

Selection

Installation

Running

Evaluation

Consortia

Intellectual Property Rights

Preservation Issues

Stafﬁng

Principles for Digital Library Development

Lucy A. Tedd · Andrew Large Digital Libraries Lucy A. Tedd Andrew Large Digital Libraries Principles and Practice in a Global Environment K · G · Saur München 2005 Bibliographic information published by Die Deutsche Bibliothek Die Deutsche Bibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data is available in the internet at [http://dnb.ddb.de](http://dnb.ddb.de). U Printed on acid-free paper © 2005 K . G . Saur Verlag GmbH, München All Rights Strictly Reserved No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without permission in writing from the publisher Typesetting by Florence Production Ltd., Stoodleigh, Devon, Great Britain. Printed and bound by Strauss GmbH, Mörlenbach, Germany. ISBN 3-598-11627-6 Contents List of Figures and Table xi Preface xvii Chapter 1 Digital Libraries in Context 1 1.1 Treasures from the World’s Great Libraries 1 1.2 The Rise of Digital Libraries 4 1.3 The Traditional Library 8 1.4 Libraries and Information Media in Historical Context 9 1.5 Digital Libraries as a Global Resource 14 1.6 Digital Library Deﬁnitions 16 1.7 Why Digital Libraries? 21 Chapter 2 Digital Libraries: Users and Services 25 2.1 User Access to Digital Libraries 25 2.2 Digital Libraries in Various Institutional Environments 29 2.2.1 Museums 29 2.2.2 National libraries 30 2.2.3 Public libraries and institutions 32 2.2.4 Research establishments 33 2.2.5 Teaching and learning establishments 34 2.3 Personalized Digital Libraries 36 2.4 Digital Reference Services 37 2.5 Information Literacy 39 2.6 Barriers to User Access 40 2.6.1 Visual or other physical impairment affecting access 40 2.6.2 No appropriate technology 42 2.6.3 ICT illiteracy 43 2.6.4 Language barrier 44 Chapter 3 Digital Information Sources 49 3.1 Introduction 49 3.2 Full-Text Materials 51 3.2.1 Scholarly ejournals 51 3.2.2 Open access, eprint collections and open archives 52 3.2.3 Ebooks 55 3.2.4 Electronic newspapers 58 3.2.5 Theses and dissertations 59 3.2.6 Archives 59 3.3 Metadata Sources 61 3.3.1 The catalogue 61 3.3.2 Abstracting and indexing databases 63 3.3.3 Indexes to archives 64 3.4 Multimedia Material 65 3.5 Websites and Quality Issues 67 3.6 Suppliers of Some Digital Information Sources 69 3.6.1 Scholarly ejournals 69 3.6.2 Open access, eprint collections and open archives 71 3.6.3 Ebooks 73 3.6.4 Abstracting and indexing databases 74 3.7 Creating Digitized Sources 75 Chapter 4 Standards and Interoperability 85 4.1 Introduction 85 4.2 Standards 85 4.3 Interoperability 86 4.4 Metadata 88 4.4.1 MARC 91 4.4.2 Dublin Core 92 4.4.3 The International Standard Archival Description (General) 95 4.4.4 Encoded Archival Description (EAD) 95 4.4.5 Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) 95 4.4.6 Resource Description Framework (RDF) 96 4.4.7 Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS) 96 4.4.8 CIMI XML 97 4.5 Presentation Standards 97 4.5.1 Character encoding 97 4.5.2 Formats 100 4.5.3 Markup languages 101 4.6 Digital Object Locators 102 4.7 Protocols 103 4.7.1 Z39.50 103 4.7.2 Open Archives Initiative-Protocol for Metadata Harvesting 105 4.8 Continuity and Change 105 Chapter 5 Organizing Access to Digital Information Sources 109 5.1 Introduction 109 5.2 Software Developed from Library Management Systems 111 5.2.1 EnCompass from Endeavor 112 5.2.2 Metalib and DigiTool from Ex Libris 113 5.2.3 Hyperion and Ilink from Sirsi 114 5.2.4 Millennium from Innovative Interfaces 115 5.3 Software Developed from Document/Information/ Museum Management Systems 115 5.3.1 CAIRS 116 5.3.2 CALM 116 5.3.3 Inmagic 118 5.3.4 KE EMu 120 5.3.5 Content management software 120 5.4 Open Source Software for Digital Library Devel

FAQs

What factors drive the growth and global relevance of digital libraries?

The book explains the rise of digital libraries, their relationship to traditional libraries, and why they serve as a global resource. It also introduces common digital library definitions and the motivations for developing them.

What are the main user access services and common barriers discussed?

It covers user access mechanisms, personalized digital libraries, digital reference services, and information literacy. It also analyzes barriers including physical impairments, lack of appropriate technology, ICT illiteracy, and language barriers.

Which standards and interoperability approaches are used for metadata and digital objects?

The text reviews standards covering metadata (e.g., MARC, Dublin Core, EAD, TEI, RDF, METS), presentation standards like character encoding and formats, and protocols such as Z39.50 and OAI-PMH. It also discusses digital object locators and continuity and change.

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