Libraries: the Internet, and Scholarship: Tools and Trends ConvergingThis title analyzes contemporary trends and tools that affect how information is created, stored, discovered and used in a progressive technological environment. It presents a framework for librarians to tailor their services and resources, in-house expertise and organizational identities to provide an efficient and effective community of learning for their evolving clientele. |
Contents
Libraries and Digital Preservation Who Is Providing Electronic Access for Tomorrow? | 1 |
BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT | 2 |
THE CHANGING FACE OF PRESERVATION | 4 |
A CONTEXT FOR DIGITAL PRESERVATION | 6 |
THE SCALE OF THE PROBLEM | 7 |
WHAT IS DIGITAL PRESERVATION? | 8 |
PRESERVATION DIGITIZATION | 9 |
TECHNOLOGY DEPENDENCE AND MEDIA LONGEVITY | 10 |
LIMITATIONS AND CONCERNS OF EACH METHOD | 95 |
LIMITED PUBLICS | 96 |
KNOWING THE MARKET | 97 |
CONCLUSION | 98 |
END NOTES | 100 |
Technologys Impact on Research and Publication in the Natural Sciences | 103 |
TAXONOMY AND RELATED DISCIPLINES | 105 |
TAXONOMIC AND SYSTEMATICS DATA | 107 |
CASE STUDIES | 11 |
STORAGE MEDIA | 12 |
DIGITAL ARCHAEOLOGY | 13 |
STRATEGIES FOR DIGITAL PRESERVATION | 14 |
RELIANCE ON HARD COPY | 15 |
TECHNOLOGY PRESERVATION | 17 |
MIGRATION | 19 |
PORTABLE DATA | 20 |
COLLECTION MANAGEMENT AND DIGITAL PRESERVATION | 21 |
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS AND DIGITAL PRESERVATION | 22 |
RESPONSIBILITY ISSUES | 24 |
DEVELOPING PRESERVATION POLICIES | 26 |
CONCLUSION | 27 |
END NOTES | 28 |
The Internet Scholarly Communication and Collaborative Research | 31 |
THE CRISIS IN SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING | 32 |
A PROMISING FORECAST FOR SCHOLARSHIP | 33 |
THE INTERNETS IMPACT EXPLAINED | 35 |
POTENTIAL PITFALLS | 36 |
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY | 37 |
MODELS OF SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION AND RESEARCH ONLINE | 38 |
CONCLUSION | 42 |
From Virtual Libraries to Digital Libraries The Role of Digital Libraries in Information Communities | 45 |
INTRODUCTION | 46 |
CONCEPTUAL BACKGROUND | 48 |
VIRTUAL LIBRARY | 51 |
DIGITAL LIBRARIES | 53 |
DIGITAL LIBRARY INITIATIVES | 54 |
NSFS DIGITAL LIBRARY INITIATIVE | 55 |
COMMUNITY | 57 |
INFORMATION COMMUNITY | 59 |
A MODEL THAT WORKED | 60 |
NEW DIRECTIONS | 64 |
A NEW MODEL FOR DIGITAL LIBRARIES AND INFORMATION COMMUNITIES | 69 |
SOME CAVEATS REGARDING THE ROLE OF DIGITAL LIBRARIES IN INFORMATION COMMUNITIES | 71 |
CONCLUSION | 72 |
END NOTES | 73 |
Integrating Metadata Frameworks into Library Description | 77 |
FACTS AND FIGURES | 79 |
WHAT IS METADATA? | 80 |
STANDARDS AND INTEROPERABILITY | 81 |
THE DUBLIN CORE AND WARWICK FRAMEWORK | 82 |
CROSSWALKS AND ASSOCIATED ISSUES | 84 |
THE NEED FOR THESAURI | 87 |
MULTILINGUAL ENVIRONMENTAL THESAURI | 88 |
PROBLEMS OF CONCEPT AND COST | 90 |
PRODUCTION COSTS AND CONCERNS | 91 |
TAXONOMIC AND SYSTEMATIC DATABASE INITIATIVES | 109 |
WHATS IN A NAME? | 111 |
SUCCESSFUL INITIATIVES | 112 |
PHYLOGENETICS INITIATIVES | 113 |
NBII AND THE PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE | 114 |
BIOLOGICAL OR NONSPATIAL METADATA STANDARDS | 115 |
GLOBAL PLANTS CHECKLIST AND SPECIES2000 | 116 |
SOME CASES | 117 |
BIOINFORMATICS AND GENOMICS | 118 |
GENETIC AND PROTEIN SEQUENCE DATABASES | 120 |
COMMUNICATING THE RESEARCH | 121 |
WHAT REALLY WORKS? | 123 |
CONCLUSION | 126 |
END NOTES | 127 |
Electronic Text Encoding in the Humanities | 133 |
MOVING FROM PRINT TO DIGITAL | 135 |
WHAT IS ENCODING? | 137 |
ENCODING CHARACTERS | 138 |
ENCODING DOCUMENTS | 139 |
DIFFERENCES BETWEEN HTML AND TEI ENCODING | 144 |
XML | 149 |
ISSUES IN ENCODING LITERARY WORKS | 150 |
REFERENCES | 152 |
END NOTES | 153 |
Visual Resources Collections and Technology | 155 |
WORKING WITH DATA | 156 |
THE POWER OF DATABASES | 157 |
THE INTERNET AND WORLD WIDE WEB | 158 |
DIGITIZATION PROJECTS | 160 |
AN EXAMPLE OF A DIGITAL VISUAL RESOURCES PROJECT | 162 |
TECHNOLOGY AS A LEARNING AND GROWTH TOOL FOR VR PROFESSIONALS | 166 |
An Introduction to Geographic Information Systems | 169 |
WHAT IS NOT A GIS? | 171 |
A DISCIPLINE OR JUST A TOOL? | 172 |
THE CLASSIFICATIONS OF GIS | 173 |
THE COMPONENTS OF A GIS | 177 |
CONCLUSION | 188 |
Social Science Data and the Digital Library | 191 |
HISTORY OF DIGITAL DATA | 192 |
ISSUES IN CREATING A VIRTUAL DATA LIBRARY | 193 |
PRESERVATION | 196 |
THE DATA DOCUMENTATION INITIATIVE | 198 |
CONCLUSION | 201 |
END NOTES | 202 |
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