Digital libraries / William Y. Arms.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Arms, William Y.

Series:

Digital libraries and electronic publishing.

Digital libraries and electronic publishing

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Libraries--United States--Special collections--Electronic information resources.

Libraries.

Digital libraries--United States.

Digital libraries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (302 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The emergence of the Internet and the wide availability of affordable computing equipment have created tremendous interest in digital libraries and electronic publishing. This book is the first to provide an integrated overview of the field, including a historical perspective, a survey of the state of the art, and an examination of current research.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Series Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgements

1 Libraries, Technology, and People

2 The Internet and the World Wide Web

3 Libraries and Publishers

4 Innovation and Research

5 People, Organizations, and Change

6 Economic and Legal Issues

7 Access Management and Security

8 User Interfaces and Usability

9 Text

10 Information Retrieval and Descriptive Metadata

11 Distributed Information Discovery

12 Object Models, Identifiers, and Structural Metadata

13 Repositories and Archives

14 Digital Libraries and Electronic Publishing Today

Glossary

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-262-26134-0

1-282-09605-2

9786612096051

0-262-25565-0

9780585281327

0-585-28132-7

OCLC:

45731551