Digital Libraries: Definitions, Issues and Challenges

Publié le 3 avril 2008 par mel

Title: Digital Libraries: Definitions, Issues and Challenges

Autor: Gary Cleveland

Identifier: http://www.ifla.org/VI/5/op/udtop8/udtop8.htm

Date: March, 1998.

Description: this article presents the digital library, with its issues and its challenges, by comparing with the traditional libraries. It enumerates the characteristics of digital libraries

Subject: issues, challenges, virtual libraries, electronic libraries, libraries without walls, architecture

Format: html

Type: text

Language: english

Relation:

Arms, W.Y. (1995). Key concepts in the architecture of the digital library. D-lib Magazine, July, 1995. URL: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/July95/07arms.html

Bush, V., "As We May Think", Atlantic Monthly, July 1945, pp. 101-108.

Chapman, S. and Kenny, A.R. (1996). Digital conversion of research library materials: a case for full informational capture. D-lib Magazine, October, 1996. URL: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/october96/cornell/10chapman.html

Miller, J.S. (1996). W3C and digital libraries. D-Lib Magazine, November, 1996.
Publisher: http://www.ifla.org/

Extract of the article:
"The idea of easy, finger-tip access to information-what we conceptualize as digital libraries today-began with Vannenar Bush's Memex machine (Bush, 1945) and has continued to evolve with each advance in information technology. With the arrival of computers, the concept centered on large bibliographic databases, the now familiar online retrieval and public access systems that are part of any contemporary library. When computers were connected into large networks forming the Internet, the concept evolved again, and research turned to creating libraries of digital information that could be accessed by anyone from anywhere in the world. Phrases like "virtual library," "electronic library," "library without walls" and, most recently, "digital library," all have been used interchangeably to describe this broad concept. "