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Building Digital Libraries

Building Digital Libraries

Paperback

Series: How-To-Do-It Manual Series (for Librarians)

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ISBN10: 1555706177
ISBN13: 9781555706173
Publisher: Neal Schuman Publ
Published: Jan 1 2008
Pages: 277
Weight: 1.85
Height: 0.80 Width: 8.40 Depth: 10.80
Language: English
Librarians embarking on the challenge of building a digital collection have their work cut out for them--and here is the book to help launch and complete the mission! Easy to understand, this guide demonstrates how resources are created, distributed, and accessed--and how librarians can keep up with the latest technologies for successfully completing these tasks. Chapters walk you step-by-step through all of the stages. This book offers detailed advice for: *Planning for and assessing the purpose of your digital repository; *Acquiring, processing, classifying and describing digital content; *Storing documents; *Choosing a platform; *Specific technologies useful to digital repositories (XML, SOAP, and more); *Sharing data; *Federated searching of repositories; *Understanding information-access issues; *Analyzing repository use; *Migrating to new platforms and accommodating new types of data

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