
Discover Digital Libraries
Theory and Practice
Description
Key Features
- 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 libraries
Offers a comprehensive bibliography for each chapter
Readership
Researchers, designers, librarians, teachers, and graduate students who are interested in digital library development and evaluation
Table of Contents
1. Introduction to Digital Libraries
2. Digital Library Collection Development
3. Digitization of Text and Still Images
4. Digitization of Audio and Moving Image Collections
5. Metadata
6. Digital Library Management Systems
7. Interface Design and Evaluation
8. User Needs and Search Behaviors
9. Digital Preservation
10. Evaluation of Digital Libraries
11. New Developments and ChallengesAppendix
A. Digitization Guides, Standards, and Best Practices
B. Examples of Metadata Schemas Reviewed in Chapter 5
Product details
- No. of pages: 388
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Elsevier 2016
- Published: July 21, 2016
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Hardcover ISBN: 9780124171121
- eBook ISBN: 9780124201057