Building Digital Libraries

by Kyle Banerjee, Terry Reese

Whether you're embarking on the challenge of building a digital collection from scratch, or simply need to understand the conceptual and technical challenges of constructing a digital library, this top-to-bottom resource is the ideal guidebook to keep at your side, especially in this thoroughly updated and reworked edition. Demonstrating how resources are created, distributed, and accessed, and how librarians can keep up with the latest technologies for successfully completing these tasks, its chapters walk you step-by-step through every stage. Demystifying core technologies and workflows, this book comprehensively covers This book will thoroughly orient LIS students and others new to the world of digital libraries, and also ensure that current professionals have the knowledge and guidance necessary to construct a digital repository from its inception.

264 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2008

Reviews

[Bill Sleeman · Rating 2 out of 5]

A solid introduction to an important issue.

[Antonio · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book offers a practical guide about how to build digital repositories from the basics, i.e. planning, software, acquiring, preservation, metadata formats, harvesting, access management, and discovery. The authors focus on well-established technologies (XML, XSLT, JSON) and metadata schemes (MARC, DC, METS) rather than cutting-edge implementations like IIIF or Linked Open Data (though there are sections on those technologies). In conclusion, they provide a general and pragmatic framework for most of digital libraries.