Building digital libraries : a how-to-do-it manual for librarians

Title:

Author:

Banerjee, Kyle author

ISBN:

9780838916353

Edition:

Second edition.

Publication:

Chicago : ALA Neal-Schuman, 2019.

Physical Description:

xiv, 249 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.

Series:

How-to-do-it manuals for libraries.

Contents:

Getting started -- Choosing a repository architecture -- Acquiring, processing, classifying, and describing digital content -- Preservation planning -- General purpose technologies useful for digital repositories -- Metadata formats -- Sharing data : harvesting, linking, and distribution -- Access management -- Thinking about discovery -- Planning for the future

Abstract:

"This top-to-bottom resource is the ideal guidebook to keep at your side. Demystifying core technologies and workflows, its chapters walk you step-by-step through needs assessment and planning for a digital repository; acquiring processing, classifying, and describing digital content; storing and managing resources in a digital repository; technologies and standards useful to digital repositories, including XML, the Portland Common Data Model, metadata schema such as Dublin Core, scripting using JSON and REST, linked open data, and automated metadata assignment; and analyzing repository use, planning for the future, migrating to new platforms, and accommodating new types of data" -- Provided by publisher.

Subject Term:

Digital libraries.

Digital libraries. (OCoLC)fst00893704

Local Subject:

LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE COLLECTION

Added Author:

Reese, Terry, Jr.

Available:

Library	Call Number	Material Type	Status
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Summary

Whether you're embarking on the challenge of building a digital collection from scratch, or simply need to understand the conceptual and technical challenges of constructing a digital library, this top-to-bottom resource is the ideal guidebook to keep at your side, especially in this thoroughly updated and reworked edition. Demonstrating how resources are created, distributed, and accessed, and how librarians can keep up with the latest technologies for successfully completing these tasks, its chapters walk you step-by-step through every stage. Demystifying core technologies and workflows, this book comprehensively covers

needs assessment and planning for a digital repository; choosing a platform; acquiring, processing, classifying, and describing digital content; storing and managing resources in a digital repository; digital preservation; technologies and standards useful to digital repositories, including XML, the Portland Common Data Model, metadata schema such as Dublin Core, scripting using JSON and REST, linked open data, and automated metadata assignment; sharing data and metadata; understanding information-access issues, including digital rights management; and analyzing repository use, planning for the future, migrating to new platforms, and accommodating new types of data.

This book will thoroughly orient LIS students and others new to the world of digital libraries, and also ensure that current professionals have the knowledge and guidance necessary to construct a digital repository from its inception.

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Reviews (1)

Choice Review

This manual presents the overarching issues related to developing and managing institutional repositories (IRs), digital asset management systems (DAMs), online educational resources (OERs), and digital repositories. Discussions on how and why to build digital libraries are directed toward a generally tech-savvy audience; guidelines for the scope, expense, and support involved in a repository project are all included. The manual also offers guidance on how to organize and disseminate digital resources using various tools, methods, standards, and technologies. The authors compare differing platforms of repository architecture and describe several methods for selecting digital materials and supporting metadata. Strategies for sharing and harvesting data, authenticating users, and operating shared environments are discussed as well. The manual is clearly organized and provides many examples of descriptive schemas and languages for constructing various aspects of a digital repository. It goes beyond standards such as Dublin Core and XML, and explains new and emerging schemas and languages for both general-purpose and domain specific repositories.The material with this resource provides all the tools necessary for developing and preserving a digital repository in an evolving technological landscape. [Disclosure: Choice is part of the American Library Association, which published this book.] Summing Up: Recommended. Researchers and library professionals. --Amy E. Handfield, Manhattan College