Understanding Digital Libraries

2. Revised Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-1-55860-924-2
Verlag: Elsevier Science

Buch, Englisch, 456 Seiten, Format (B × H): 192 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 923 g

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

Zielgruppe

digital librarians, researchers

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lesk, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Technische Informatik Wartung & Reparatur
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Programmierung | Softwareentwicklung Grafikprogrammierung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Evolution of Libraries2. Text Documents3. Images of Pages4. Multimedia Storage and Retrieval5. Knowledge Representation Schemes6. Distribution7. Usability and Retrieval Evaluation9. Collections And Preservations10. Economics11. Intellectual Property Rights12. A World Tour of Digital Libraries13. Scope of Digital Libraries14. Future: Ubiquity, Diversity, Creativity, and Public Policy

Über Autor(innen)

Lesk, Michael
Michael Lesk joined the computer science research group at Bell Laboratories after receiving his Ph.D. degree in Chemical Physics in 1969. He went on to manage the computer science research group at Bellcore, where he is now a chief research scientist. He is best known for his work in electronic libraries, but has worked in document production and retrieval software, computer networks, computer languages, and human-computer interfaces as well. Past chair of the Association for Computing Machinery's special interest groups on Language Analysis and Information Retrieval, Lesk was Senior Visiting Fellow of the British Library in 1987 and is currently Visiting Professor of Computer Science at University College London. Lesk has been recently elected to the US National Academy of Engineering, in recognition of his contributions to UNIX applications, information systems, and digital libraries.