Practical digital libraries : books, bytes, and bucks
Offers a wide ranging overview of digital libraries currently available; analizes economic and intellectual property issues in the emerging digital environment and show how text, images and audio and video can be represented, distributed, used and collected as forms of knowledge
Print Book, English, ©1997
Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, San Francisco, Calif., ©1997
xxii, 297 pages, 11 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm.
9781558604599, 1558604596
37156693
1 Evolution of Libraries 2 Text Access Methods 3 Images of Pages 4 Multimedia Storage and Access 5 Knowledge Representation Methods 6 Distribution 7 Usability and Retrieval Evaluation 8 Collections and Preservation 9 Economics 10 Intellectual Property Rights 11 International Activities 12 Future: Ubiquity, Diversity, Creativity, and Public Policy