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<p>Whether you're embarking on the challenge of building a digital collection from scratch, or simply need to understand the conceptual and technical challenges of constructing a digital library, this top-to-bottom resource is the ideal guidebook to keep at your side, especially in this thoroughly updated and reworked edition. Demonstrating how resources are created, distributed, and accessed, and how librarians can keep up with the latest technologies for successfully completing these tasks, its chapters walk you step-by-step through every stage. Demystifying core technologies and workflows, this book comprehensively covers<br></p><ul> <li>needs assessment and planning for a digital repository; </li> <li>choosing a platform; </li> <li>acquiring, processing, classifying, and describing digital content; </li> <li>storing and managing resources in a digital repository; </li> <li>digital preservation; </li> <li>technologies and standards useful to digital repositories, including XML, the Portland Common Data Model, metadata schema such as Dublin Core, scripting using JSON and REST, linked open data, and automated metadata assignment; </li> <li>sharing data and metadata; </li> <li>unde

Author

Kyle Banerjee and Terry Reese, Jr

Publisher

American Library Association

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9780838917244