Building Digital Libraries: A How-To-Do-It Manual

Librarians embarking on the challenge of building a digital collection have their work cut out for them — and here is the book to help launch and complete the mission Easy to understand, this guide demonstrates how resources are created, distributed, and accessed — and how librarians can keep up with the latest technologies for successfully completing these tasks. Chapters walk you step-by-step through all of the stages. This book offers detailed advice for:

• Planning for and assessing the purpose of your digital repository
• Acquiring, processing, classifying and describing digital content
• Storing documents
• Choosing a platform
• Specific technologies useful to digital repositories (XML, SOAP, and more)
• Sharing data
• Federated searching of repositories
• Understanding information-access issues
• Analyzing repository use
• Migrating to new platforms and accommodating new types of data Librarians looking for a timely, comprehensive guide to creating a digital collection will find this book an invaluable resource.