Digital library trends prospects (1 Ergebnisse)
Verlag: Jnanada Prakashan, 2011
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In den WarenkorbContents Foreword 1 Fundamentals of digital library 2 Components of digital library 3 E-learning and resources 4 Online education and quality control methodologies 5 Online information retrieval 6 Electronic reference services 7 Distributed information discovery 8 Descriptive metadata and information retrieval 9 World wide web a…nd the internet 10 Electronic publishing 11 Digital libraries in Japan 12 Digital library architecture 13 Information retrieval system 14 Implementation of UDC Bibliography Index The book critically examines and analyses the various issues and problems associated with digital library and its future prospects in the age of information technology As a matter of fact digital library is comprehensive concept applicable to a wide array of digital entitles Comparatively speaking digital libraries have the potential to store much more information on account of the fact that it requires very little physical space to contain it while traditional libraries are limited by storage space From the economic perspective the cost of maintaining a digital library is much lower than that of a traditional library A traditional library must spend large sums of money paying for staff book maintenance rent and additional books Digital libraries do away with these fees In operational terms digital libraries are built out of components that are integrated into a production quality system Broadly speaking the key elements of the digital library include metadata digital objects repositories and harvesting rights management resource discovery servicing indexing and retrieving linking annotating and browsing interface and interaction architecture and inter-connecting All these aspects of digital library have discussed and analysedOnline education and quality control methodologies and electronic reference services are important ingredients of digital library These aspects have been critically investigated in chapters fifth and sixth respectably Distributed computing requires that different computers share some technical standards With distributed searching a result might want to search many independent collections with a single query compare the results choose the most promising and retrieve selected materials from the collectionsThis book will be of immense help to all those contemplating to acquire expert knowledge of digital library trends and prospects with special reference to Library and Information Science and Management jacket 217 pp.