Digital Library - Concepts, Challenges, and Future Directions Concepts, Challenges, and Future Directions
Language: English
Published by IntechOpen, 2026
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Digital libraries are transforming the contemporary knowledge ecosystem, reshaping how information is created, shared, accessed, and preserved. Advances in digital technologies, networked infrastructures, and data-driven tools have expanded libraries beyond physical spaces and institutional boundaries, enabling new forms of scholarly communication, learning, and public engagement, while also introducing complex conceptual, technical, organizational, and ethical challenges. Digital Library - Concepts, Challenges, and Future Directions explores these transformations through contributions from diverse perspectives and global contexts. The volumes offer a balanced overview of foundational concepts, current challenges, emerging technologies, and the productive synergies shaping digital library development and use worldwide, reflecting the field's interdisciplinary and evolving nature. Covering topics such as digital library models and architectures, metadata and interoperability, digital preservation, user experience and accessibility, intellectual property and ethics, and the growing influence of artificial intelligence and data analytics, the book integrates theoretical insights with practical experiences drawn from a wide range of institutional and cultural settings. Authored by researchers and practitioners across disciplines, including library and information science and the digital humanities, this open-access volume underscores the global relevance of digital libraries and the importance of context-sensitive approaches. Its publication aligns with the principles of knowledge sharing and inclusivity central to digital libraries and IntechOpen's mission. Organized thematically from conceptual foundations to applied challenges and future-oriented perspectives, this book is also an essential resource for researchers, graduate students, librarians, and information professionals engaged in digital library research and practice. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 466.…
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- Digital Library - Concepts, Challenges, and Future Directions Concepts, Challenges, and Future Directions
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- IntechOpen
- Publication year
- 2026
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- Neu
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- Gebundene Ausgabe
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- English
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- 1836355874
- ISBN 13
- 9781836355878
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- 466 grams
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