Building Digital Libraries: A How-to-do-it Manual for Librarians (How-To-Do-It Manuals): A How-to-Do-It Manual for Archivists & Librarians - Softcover

American Library Association

 
9781555706173: Building Digital Libraries: A How-to-do-it Manual for Librarians (How-To-Do-It Manuals): A How-to-Do-It Manual for Archivists & Librarians
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1555706177 ISBN 13: 9781555706173
Publisher: Neal-Schuman Publishers, 2008

Synopsis

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

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

Product Description

Rare book

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.

Publisher
Neal-Schuman Publishers
Publication date
2008
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1555706177
ISBN 13 
9781555706173
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
277