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1 Lucy A. Tedd Andrew Large Digital Libraries Principles and Practice in a Global Environment

2 Contents List of Figures and Table Preface xi xvii Chapter 1 Digital Libraries in Context 1.1 Treasures from the World's Great Libraries The Rise of Digital Libraries The Traditional Library g 1.4 Libraries and Information Media in Historical Context Digital Libraries as a Global Resource Digital Library Definitions Why Digital Libraries? 21 Chapter 2 Digital Libraries : Users and Services User Access to Digital Libraries Digital Libraries in Various Institutional Environments Museums National libraries Public libraries and institutions Research establishments Teaching and learning establishments 2.3 Personalized Digital Libraries Digital Reference Services Information Literacy 39 2,6 Barriers to User Access Visual or other physical impairment affecting access 40.2 No appropriate technology ICI illiteracy Language barrier 44

3 vi Contents Chapter 3 Digital Information. Sources Introduction Full-Text Materials Scholarly ejournals Open access, eprint collections and open archives Ebooks Electronic newspapers Theses and dissertations Archives Metadata Sources The catalogue Abstracting and indexing databases Indexes to archives Multimedia Material Websites and Quality Issues Suppliers of Some Digital Information Sources Scholarly ejournals Open access, eprint collections and open archives Ebooks Abstracting and indexing databases Creating Digitized Sources 75 Chapter 4 Standards and Interoperability Introduction Standards Interoperability Metadata MARC Dublin Core The International Standard Archival Description (General) Encoded Archival Description (EAD) Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Resource Description Framework (RDF) Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS) CM XML Presentation Standards Character encoding Formats Markup languages Digital Object Locators Protocols Z Open Archives Initiative-Protocol for Metadata Harvesting Continuity and Change 105 Chapter 5 Organizing Access to Digital Information Sources 5.1 Introduction Software Developed from Library Management Systems 111

4 cotrfettls vii EnCompass from Endeavor Metalib and DigiTool from Ex Libris Hyperion and Ilink from Sirsi Millennium from Innovative Interfaces Software Developed from Document/Information/ Museum Management Systems CAIRS CALM Inmagic KE EMu Content management software Open Source Software for Digital Library Development CERN Document Server software DSpace EPrints Archive Software Greenstone Digital Library Architecture 125 Chapter 6 Interface Design Introduction Interface Design Principles : An Overview Interface Design Rules Interfaces for Digital Libraries Content overview Searching and browsing Display of retrieved information Personalization Help Interface Developments Interfaces for Specific User Communities Interfaces for young users Interfaces for users with visual handicaps Languages and Interface Design Cultures and Interface Design Interface Evaluation 158 Chapter 7 Searching and Browsing ] Libraries and Information Seeking Searching Browsing Information Display Searching Multilingual Collections Machine translation Cross-language information retrieval Searching Visual and Sound Sources Automatic indexing of non-text material Automatic image indexing 182

5 viii Contents Automatic indexing of audio content User Feedback on Searching and Browsing 185 Chapter 8 Practical Issues The Management of Change 189 8,2 Users' Needs Planning 193 8,4 Requirement Specification 193 8,5 Selection Installation Health and safety issues Training Documentation and help Authentication, authorization and access Security issues Running Evaluation Consortia 202 8,9.1 Regional consortia National consortia Multinational consortia Intellectual Property Rights Preservation Issues Staffing Principles for Digital Library Development Further Sources of Information 216 Chapter 9 Case Studies Introduction Open Library, Open University, UK Background to the institution Background to the library Digital library implementation and use Biblioteca Mario Rostoni, University Carlo Cattaneo, Italy Background to the institution 226 9,3.2 Background to the library Digital library implementation. and use University of Moratuwa Library, Sri Lanka Background to the institution Background to the library Digital library implementation and use Vidyanidhi Digital Library, University of Mysore, India Background to the institution Background to the Vidyanidhi Digital Library Project Vidyanidhi Digital Library and E-Scholarship Portal ELibraryHub and Digital Library, National Library Board, Singapore 240

6 Corttetas ix Background to the institution ELibraryHub and the Digital Library The International Children's Digital Library, University of Maryland, US Background to the institution Background to the ICDL ICDL implementation and use Archives, McGill University, Montreal, Canada Background to the institution Background to the Archives Implementation and use of the digitized collections National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK Background to the institution Background to digital library development Implementation and use of the digitized collections 260 List of Acronyms 265

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