Building Digital Libraries

by Kyle Banerjee, Terry Reese

Overview

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

• needs assessment and planning for a digital repository;
• choosing a platform;
• acquiring, processing, classifying, and describing digital content;
• storing and managing resources in a digital repository;
• digital preservation;
• technologies and standards useful to digital repositories, including XML, the Portland Common Data Model, metadata schema such as Dublin Core, scripting using JSON and REST, linked open data, and automated metadata assignment;
• sharing data and metadata;
• understanding information-access issues, including digital rights management; and
• analyzing repository use, planning for the future, migrating to new platforms, and accommodating new types of data.

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780838917145
Publisher:	American Library Association
Publication date:	09/18/2018
Series:	How-To-Do-It Manuals
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	249
File size:	50 MB
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About the Author

Kyle Banerjee has twenty years' library experience, extensive systems knowledge, and has planned and written software to support ILS, digital collections, and resource-sharing system migrations since 1996. He coauthored two other textbooks about digital libraries and has written numerous articles on library automation.

Table of Contents

Building Digital Libraries, Second Edition Title Page Copyright Page Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Should You Build a Repository? Selling the Project Getting Your Repository off the Ground Questions to Ask before Choosing an Architecture Who Are the Users and What Do They Need? How Are Assets Acquired? What Rights Management and Access Controls Do You Need? How Does the Repository Handle Preservation? Other High-Level Platform Decisions Metadata Resource and Data Management Planning Workflow Collection Development Acquiring Content Transform Kick the Can down the Road Outsourcing Organizing Content and Assigning Metadata Structuring Content Crowd-Sourcing Resource Identification Batch Processes Rights Management Protecting the Integrity of Resources 4. Preservation Planning What Is Digital Preservation? Preserving the Content and Context, Not the Medium Language Difference between IT and Cultural Heritage Staff People, Not Software, Enable Preservation The Maturity Model Preservation File Formats Cloud-Based Digital Preservation Services Summary 5. General-Purpose Technologies Useful for Digital Repositories The Changing Face of Metadata XML in Libraries XHTML XPath XLink XML Schema XML Is Human-Readable XML Offers a Quicker Cataloging Strategy Multi-Formatted and Embedded Documents Metadata Becomes “Connected” JSON Programming Languages Programming Tools Software Tools REST (Representational State Transfer) Code Management Future of Software Development Deeper Reliance on Interpreted Languages and JavaScript Sharing Your Services Summary 6. Metadata Formats Metadata Primitives MARC MARC21XML Dublin Core MODS METS IIIF BIBFRAME Domain-Specific Metadata Formats PCDM (Portland Common Data Model) Semantic Web Summary 7. Sharing Data The Evolving Role of Libraries Metadata Doesn’t Want to Be Free . . . If It Did, It Would Be Easy Linked Data XSLT XQuery Metadata Crosswalking OAI-PMH OAI-PMH Verbs9 Facilitating Third-Party Indexing The Oregon State University Electronic Theses Process The Ohio State University Libraries: Automatic Data Transfer of Digital Content between the Internet Archive and the HathiTrust Summary Copyright Access Control Mechanisms Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) Single Sign-On (SSO) Shibboleth OAuth and Social Media Authentication Internal Authentication Vended Authentication Implementing Access Control 9. Thinking about Discovery Unpacking Discovery? Federated Search and Digital Libraries Why Think about Discovery Current Research Searching Protocols Z39.50 SRU/SRW OpenSearch Linking Protocols OpenURL DOI (Digital Object Identifiers) Evaluating User Needs User Needs Summary Providing Information That People Need Libraries’ New Roles Learning from the Past Adapting to Change Consolidation and Specialization The Shared Environment Federated Vocabularies Summary Index

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: Kathaleen E. McCormick, BS, MLS (Duquesne University)
Description: This is a guide to help libraries and other cultural institutions create, manage, and maintain their digital collections. A previous edition was published in 2008.
Purpose: The authors aim to give an overall introduction to managing digital collections. Their goal is not to give step-by-step instructions, but to cover the important points that must be considered when managing a digital repository. A variety of current technologies and practices are clearly explained and described. They succeed in creating a guide that is helpful for readers of all levels of digital experience.
Audience: This book is for those working with digital collections in libraries, museums, and similar cultural institutions. The authors are digital collection experts with many years of experience working with digital collections in libraries. For institutions deciding if they should start a digital repository, the book has information on all the aspects that need to be considered before getting started. For those already managing a collection, it serves as a guide for determining best practices.
Features: The chapters are titled and organized in a logical and useful way. All aspects needed to run a digital collection are covered, including acquisitions, content description, discovery, access, sharing information, harvesting, and preservation. The most current and widely used technologies including XML formats, JSON, and metadata formats including Dublin Core, MODS, METS, and BIBFRAME are explained and compared. For those who want to get more detailed information than is provided in a chapter, web addresses and other sources giving more in-depth coverage are provided.
Assessment: The authors take a large and complex topic and clearly cover its most important points, balancing general information with specific details on the latest technologies. The first edition was written 10 years ago, and this edition is extensively rewritten and includes many important updates.

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