Understanding digital libraries /
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 n...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; Boston :
Elsevier,
©2005.
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
| Series: | Morgan Kaufmann series in multimedia information and systems.
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| Online Access: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=123435 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Evolution of libraries
- 2. Text documents
- 3. Images of pages
- 4. Multimedia storage and retrieval
- 5. Knowledge representation schemes
- 6. Distribution
- 7. Usability and retrieval evaluation
- 8. User needs
- 9. Collections and preservations
- 10. Economics
- 11. Intellectual property rights
- 12. A world tour of digital libraries
- 13. Scope of digital libraries
- 14. Future : ubiquity, diversity, creativity, and public policy.