256 pages
6" x 9"
Softcover
ISBN-13: 978-1-55570-914-3
Year Published: 2013
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Offering an authoritative and truly global exploration of current research in digital libraries, in this book a blue-ribbon team of internationally renowned academics discuss what has been achieved with digital libraries and what we can expect in the future. Equally informative for LIS students, academics, researchers, and practitioners alike, this collection includes in-depth consideration of such topics as - Design and architecture of digital libraries
- Metadata and crowdsourced data for access and interaction in digital library user interfaces
- Collaborative search and retrieval in digital libraries
- Towards socially inclusive digital libraries
- Users’ interactions with digital libraries
- iSTEM: integrating subject categories from multiple repositories
- Intellectual property and digital libraries
Table of Contents
Foreword Christine L. Borgman
1. Digital libraries and information access: introduction Gobinda Chowdhury and Schubert Foo
2. Design and architecture of digital libraries Hussein Suleman
3. Metadata and crowdsourced data for access and interaction in digital library user interfaces Ali Shiri and Dinesh Rathi
4. Information Access Gobinda Chowdhury and Schubert Foo
5. Collaborative Search and Retrieval in Digital Libraries Dion Hoe-Lian Goh
6. The social element of digital libraries Natalie Pang
7. Towards socially inclusive digital libraries Chern Li Liew
8. Users’ interactions with digital libraries T. D. Wilson and Elena Macevičiūtė
9. Digital libraries and scholarly information: technology, market, users and usage Jeonghyun Kim, Angel Durr and Suliman Hawamdeh
10. Digital libraries and open access Gobinda Chowdhury and Schubert Foo
11. iSTEM: integrating subject categories from multiple repositories Christopher C. Yang and Jung-ran Park
12. Usability of digital libraries Sudatta Chowdhury
13. Intellectual property and digital libraries Michael Fraser
14. Digital preservation: interoperability ad modum Milena Dobreva and Raivo Ruusalepp
15. Digital libraries and information access: research trends Gobinda Chowdhury and Schubert Foo
About the Editors
G. G. Chowdhury is Professor of Information and Knowledge Management and Director of the Center for Information and Knowledge Management at the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. An academic researcher in different parts of the world for over two decades, he has written several books, articles, and conference papers on information retrieval and digital libraries. He has served as an editorial board member of the Journal of Documentation, Library Review, Journal of Information Science, World Digital Libraries and Online Information Review, as well as acting as an international program committee member at various international conferences.
Schubert Foo is Professor and Associate Dean (Graduate Studies), College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He has served as Board Member of the National Library Board, and the National Archives of Singapore Board, and has also served on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Information Science, Journal of Information and Knowledge Management, and International Yearbook of Library and Information Management, among others. He has published more than 200 international conference and journal papers, book chapters and books in his areas of research in internet and multimedia technology, multilingual information retrieval, digital libraries and knowledge management.
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