Discover Digital Libraries
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Discover Digital Libraries

Theory and Practice

Iris Xie,Krystyna Matusiak

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Discover Digital Libraries

Theory and Practice

Iris Xie,Krystyna Matusiak

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About This Book

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

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Publisher
Elsevier
Year
2016
ISBN
9780124201057
Topic
Languages & Linguistics
Subtopic
Library & Information Science
Index
Languages & Linguistics

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APA 6 Citation

Xie, I., & Matusiak, K. (2016). Discover Digital Libraries ([edition unavailable]). Elsevier Science. Retrieved from https://www.perlego.com/book/1809798/discover-digital-libraries-theory-and-practice-pdf (Original work published 2016)

Chicago Citation

Xie, Iris, and Krystyna Matusiak. (2016) 2016. Discover Digital Libraries. [Edition unavailable]. Elsevier Science. https://www.perlego.com/book/1809798/discover-digital-libraries-theory-and-practice-pdf.

Harvard Citation

Xie, I. and Matusiak, K. (2016) Discover Digital Libraries. [edition unavailable]. Elsevier Science. Available at: https://www.perlego.com/book/1809798/discover-digital-libraries-theory-and-practice-pdf (Accessed: 15 October 2022).

MLA 7 Citation

Xie, Iris, and Krystyna Matusiak. Discover Digital Libraries. [edition unavailable]. Elsevier Science, 2016. Web. 15 Oct. 2022.