Thursday, February 25, 2010
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Book: Building Digital Libraries: A How-to-do-it Manual
I am continuing to read and think about digital libraries. As I peeked around the Internet for additional resources, this 2008 book -
Building Digital Libraries: A How-to-do-it Manual - by Terry Reese and Kyle Banerjee came to my attention. Chapters include:
* Planning a Digital Repository
* Acquiring, Processing, Classifying, and Describing Digital Content
* Choosing a Repository Architecture
* General Purpose Technologies Useful for Digital Repositories
* Metadata Formats
* Sharing Data: Metadata Harvesting and Distribution
* Federated Searching of Repositories
* Access Management
* Planning for the Future
In the preface, they provide this reason for the book:
A digital library exists within a very different framework. A single resource (e.g., a portal) may consist of objects in many formats (full-text articles, databases, etc.), yet each of these objects is a resource in its own right. These objects may be updated frequently, and their original formats may become obsolete as technological developments lead to new types of information resources. Due to these differences, creating a digital library requires a new set of skills. Building Digital Libraries: A How-to-do-it Manual® is a tool kit for the new world of digital libraries. It demystifies the challenges of designing, constructing, and maintaining a digital repository.
While we may all us different terms to describe what a digital library is, I like this:
It is not just the information itself, but the organization, structure, and presentation of that information, that give a repository its value.
Those three things - organization, structure and presentation - are concepts that every digital library (and digitization program) should keep in mind. This book seems like a good complement to the Lesk book.
Building Digital Libraries: A How-to-do-it Manual - by Terry Reese and Kyle Banerjee came to my attention. Chapters include:
* Planning a Digital Repository
* Acquiring, Processing, Classifying, and Describing Digital Content
* Choosing a Repository Architecture
* General Purpose Technologies Useful for Digital Repositories
* Metadata Formats
* Sharing Data: Metadata Harvesting and Distribution
* Federated Searching of Repositories
* Access Management
* Planning for the Future
In the preface, they provide this reason for the book:
A digital library exists within a very different framework. A single resource (e.g., a portal) may consist of objects in many formats (full-text articles, databases, etc.), yet each of these objects is a resource in its own right. These objects may be updated frequently, and their original formats may become obsolete as technological developments lead to new types of information resources. Due to these differences, creating a digital library requires a new set of skills. Building Digital Libraries: A How-to-do-it Manual® is a tool kit for the new world of digital libraries. It demystifies the challenges of designing, constructing, and maintaining a digital repository.
While we may all us different terms to describe what a digital library is, I like this:
It is not just the information itself, but the organization, structure, and presentation of that information, that give a repository its value.
Those three things - organization, structure and presentation - are concepts that every digital library (and digitization program) should keep in mind. This book seems like a good complement to the Lesk book.
Event: International Conference on Digital Libraries
The rapid growth of information technology has thrown up enormous opportunities in the growth of digital libraries (DL). Seeing the potential of leveraging IT as a tool for learning and bridging the knowledge gap, we have already conducted two international conferences on digital libraries since the year 2004 with varied themes successfully with overwhelming response.
The Third International Conference on Digital Libraries (ICDL) is being organized during 23-26 February 2010 jointly by TERI and IGNOU. The theme of the Conference is "Shaping the Information Paradigm". The conference will focus on creation, adoption, implementation and utilization of digital libraries, e-learning and a knowledge society. Apart from these, this conference has special focus on web-based methodologies in teaching and learning, academic programmes, information services, multi-media content, open archive initiatives & open educational resources, e-learning & e-resource management, and virtual support to distance learners. Special conference sessions and tutorials shall be devoted on the theme related
aspects to the digital library, the technologies applicable in open and distance education system. There are more that 50 International speakers will share their view. Please join there to share your experience.
In view of your experienced and valuable professional contribution, we invite you to submit a proposal for conference session and tutorial. We solicit your experienced and valuable contribution for the successful organization of this mega event. Further information Please visit www.teriin.org/events/icdl
International Conference on Digital Libraries (ICDL)
Shaping the Information Paradigm
New Delhi * 23 - 26 February 2010
Venue: Conference at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, 24 -26 February 2010
Tutorial at IGNOU, Convention Centre, New Delhi, 23 February 2010
Important dates
* Submission of full papers 15 September 2009
* Notification of acceptance of paper with comments 30 October 2009
* Submission of the final paper after incorporating comments 30 November 2009
Further details, please contact:
DEBAL C KAR
Organizing Secretary
ICDL Secretariat
TERI, Darbari Seth Block,
IHC Complex, Lodhi Road,
New Delhi, 110 003, India
Telephone 24682138, 24682100, 41504900
Fax 24682144, 24682145
E-mail icdl@teri.res.in
Web www.teriin.org/events/icdl
India +91 Delhi (0)11
The Third International Conference on Digital Libraries (ICDL) is being organized during 23-26 February 2010 jointly by TERI and IGNOU. The theme of the Conference is "Shaping the Information Paradigm". The conference will focus on creation, adoption, implementation and utilization of digital libraries, e-learning and a knowledge society. Apart from these, this conference has special focus on web-based methodologies in teaching and learning, academic programmes, information services, multi-media content, open archive initiatives & open educational resources, e-learning & e-resource management, and virtual support to distance learners. Special conference sessions and tutorials shall be devoted on the theme related
aspects to the digital library, the technologies applicable in open and distance education system. There are more that 50 International speakers will share their view. Please join there to share your experience.
In view of your experienced and valuable professional contribution, we invite you to submit a proposal for conference session and tutorial. We solicit your experienced and valuable contribution for the successful organization of this mega event. Further information Please visit www.teriin.org/events/icdl
International Conference on Digital Libraries (ICDL)
Shaping the Information Paradigm
New Delhi * 23 - 26 February 2010
Venue: Conference at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, 24 -26 February 2010
Tutorial at IGNOU, Convention Centre, New Delhi, 23 February 2010
Important dates
* Submission of full papers 15 September 2009
* Notification of acceptance of paper with comments 30 October 2009
* Submission of the final paper after incorporating comments 30 November 2009
Further details, please contact:
DEBAL C KAR
Organizing Secretary
ICDL Secretariat
TERI, Darbari Seth Block,
IHC Complex, Lodhi Road,
New Delhi, 110 003, India
Telephone 24682138, 24682100, 41504900
Fax 24682144, 24682145
E-mail icdl@teri.res.in
Web www.teriin.org/events/icdl
India +91 Delhi (0)11
digital library
A "digital library," in this discussion, means something more than the Web at large: it means an intentional collection of digital resources assembled, catalogued, indexed, preserved, and presented to serve the needs of scholarship. The digital library can exist outside the university--and increasingly, we will see them come into being in the form of the archives of corporations (Corning, for example, has mountains of historical data about its own operations, its own research, its own innovations)--but even in those cases, the purpose is more or less the same (Corning wants their engineers to be able to bring past experience to bear on current research agendas). To be called a "digital library" in the sense that I mean it here, the institution in question would have to present full-text (and full-image) resources, not just finding aids that point to boxes on a shelf--not that these aren't very important: they're simply not what I'm talking about here.
I am still collecting definitions of what a digital library is. If you have one that I should see, please let me know. Thanks!
I am still collecting definitions of what a digital library is. If you have one that I should see, please let me know. Thanks!
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
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