Understanding Digital Libraries (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Multimedia Information and Systems)

Lesk, Michael

Morgan Kaufmann

A digital library is not merely a collection of electronic information. It is an organized and digitized system of data that can serve as a rich resource for its user community. This authoritative and accessible guide for librarians and computer scientists explores the technologies behind digital libraries, the choices to be made in building them, and the economic and policy structures that affect them. 
The most comprehensive book on the subject, Practical Digital Libraries * offers the most wide-ranging overview of digital libraries currently available * analyzes economic and intellectual issues in the emerging digital environment * shows how text, images, audio, and video can be represented, distributed, used, and collected as forms of knowledge

Practical Digital Libraries: Books, Bytes, and Bucks (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Multimedia Information and Systems)

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This fully revised and updated second edition of Understanding Digital Libraries focuses on the challenges faced by both librarians and computer scientists in a field that has been dramatically altered by the growth of the Web. At every turn, the goal is practical: to show you how things you might need to do are already being done, or how they can be done. The first part of the book is devoted to technology and examines issues such as varying media requirements, indexing and classification, networks and distribution, and presentation. The second part of the book is concerned with the human contexts in which digital libraries function. Here you’ll find specific and useful information on usability, preservation, scientific applications, and thorny legal and economic questions.

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Understanding Digital Libraries (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Multimedia Information and Systems)

Practical Digital Libraries: Books, Bytes, and Bucks (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Multimedia Information and Systems)

Understanding Digital Libraries (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Multimedia Information and Systems)