Building Digital Libraries: A How-to-do-it ManualLibrarians 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 Librarians looking for a timely, comprehensive guide to creating a digital collection will find this book an invaluable resource. |
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Figure 413 | 4 |
Advantages of a Digital Repository | 6 |
Image and Text Processing | 12 |
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