Digital libraries

Unit 2
 What are digital libraries?
How do they work?
Mention a few digital libraries.
What is an Institutional Repository?
What does MARC stand for?

Group work
 "A potentially virtual organization, that comprehensively collects, manages
and preserves for the long depth of time rich digital content, and offers to its
targeted user communities specialized functionality on that content, of defined
quality and according to comprehensive codified policies."

Digital Library:
 organizations that provide the resources, including the specialized staff, to
select, structure, offer intellectual access to, interpret, distribute, preserve the
integrity of, and ensure the persistence over time of collections of digital
works so that they are readily and economically available for use by a defined
community or set of communities.

The Digital Library Federation

defines digital libraries as
 The digital library is not a single entity;
The digital library requires technology to link the resources of many;
The linkages between the many digital libraries and information services are
transparent to the end user;
Universal access to digital libraries and information services is a goal;
Digital library collections are not limited to document surrogates: they extend
to digital artifacts that cannot be represented or distributed in printed formats.
 MARC.

Digital potential
 Interoperability
Standards
Right management
Preservation
Resources
User Interface design
Public services

Digital challenges
 Illusions of inadequacy
Organizational obstacles
Lack of commitment
Lack of vision
The perfection prison
Technological literacy
What other barriers can you think of?

Digital barriers
 Research projects or production projects?
Lets build more bridges!

The digital library divide

 Licensing
Consorting
Purchasing
Digitazing*
Begging
Stealing
A proper mix

How to obtain resources.

 Many libraries just copy the handwritten catalog card

Right or wrong?

Cataloging and classification

 Besides such longstanding workhorses as MARC
the Dublin Core,
the Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS),
the Metadata Object Description Schema (MODS).

Metadata containers
Core?
Librarians,
computer
scientists,
museum
professionals,
etc.

Extensible
15 elements Dublin Core
standard

Carity of
objects within
variety od
subjects
Dublin Core
Why using digital libraries?
 It brings the library to
the user

Computer power is
New forms of used for searching
information become and browsing
possible

Digital
libraries
The information
is always Computer power is
available used for searching
and browsing

Information is
easier to keep
current
 Electronic storage is becoming cheaper than paper
Personal computer displays are becoming more pleasant to use
High-speed networks are becoming widespread
Computers have become portable

Technical developments
 Collections
Data
Metadata:
Structural metadata
Descriptive metadata
Administrative metadata
Identifier*
Items in a DL: Digital material or digital object (documents)
Library objects
Presentations
Disseminations

Basic terminology
Computers and Networks
The importance of Internet
 Digital libraries:
Internet has played a significant role in its developement.
They are used to help users work in a digital age.
They are considered as a useful source of information.
They have been developed since 1960s.
They have been massively improved.
Etc.

Closing
Grammar and vocabulary