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Digital libraries : an overview
Suresh Jange,Mallikarjun Angadi +1 more
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The concept of Digital library, the technology that has enabled its emergence & architecture of digital library system are examined, and possible challenges ahead for library and information professionals in the digital environment are explored.Abstract:
During the past recent years, there has been tremendous development reaming the concept of digital libraries-a knowledge base that can be stored and retrieved through on-line networks. Digital libraries are the most complex form of information systems that support digital document preservation, distributed database management, hypertext, filtering, information retrieval and selective dissemination of information. This has really overcome geographical barrier offering wide range of academic, research and cultural resources with multimedia effects which can be accessed around the world over the distributed networks. The paper examines the concept of Digital library, the technology that has enabled its emergence & architecture of digital library system. It also highlights the digital library projects undertaken in USA, UK and India. Here the authors explored the unique feature of digital library and possible challenges ahead for library and information professionals in the digital environment.read more
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Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: 2008 Annual Edition
TL;DR: This bibliography lists citations of English-language articles, books and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet.
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Collaboration and Crowdsourcing: The Cases of Multilingual Digital Libraries
TL;DR: These four multilingual libraries benefit substantially, both in the creation of the library and in its access, from the collaboration of groups domestic and international with different language expertise.
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Forgotten as data – remembered through information : social memory institutions in the digital age : the case of the Europeana Initiative
TL;DR: In this article, a case study on the Europeana initiative (a digitization project of European libraries, archives, and museums) reveals a fundamental shift in the field of memory institutions, and the disintegration of the cultural heritage artefact, its standard modes of description and the catalogue as such into a steadily accumulating assemblage of data and metadata.
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A web analytics approach for appraising electronic resources in academic libraries
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Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: 2008 Annual Edition
TL;DR: This bibliography lists citations of English-language articles, books and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet.
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Realizing the Hybrid Library
Stephen Pinfield,Jonathan Eaton,Catherine Edwards,Rosemary Russell,Astrid Wissenburg,Peter M. Wynne +5 more
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Collaboration and Crowdsourcing: The Cases of Multilingual Digital Libraries
TL;DR: These four multilingual libraries benefit substantially, both in the creation of the library and in its access, from the collaboration of groups domestic and international with different language expertise.
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A web analytics approach for appraising electronic resources in academic libraries
TL;DR: The results highlight the benefit of a web analytics evaluation framework for university libraries and the impact of classifying titles based on the funding area and show the statistical difference in both use and cost among the various funding areas when ranked by cost.