Research Catalog

Title

Understanding digital libraries / Michael Lesk.

Author

Lesk, Michael

Publication

Boston : Elsevier, 2004.

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Details

Description

xxxi, 424 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Summary

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 youll find specific and useful information on usability, preservation, scientific applications, and thorny legal and economic questions.

Uniform Title

Morgan Kaufmann series in multimedia information and systems

Subject

• Digital libraries
• Digital libraries > United States
• Libraries > United States > Computer files
• Libraries, Digital

Note

• "Practical digital libraries, 2nd edition."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 387-411) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Evolution of libraries -- Text documents -- Images of pages -- Multimedia storage and retrieval -- Knowledge representation schemes -- Distribution -- Usability and retrieval evaluation -- User needs -- Collections and preservations -- Economics -- Intellectual property rights -- A world tour of digital libraries -- Scope of digital libraries -- Future : ubiquity, diversity, creativity, and public policy.

ISBN

1558609245 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2004060982^^

OCLC

56911889

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library