Discuss how open source and social software applications can serve to fill digital library roles
“Open Source’ Integrated Library System Software
Digital libraries are a set of electronic resources and associated technical capabilities for creating, searching, and using information. In this sense they are an extension and enhancement of information storage and retrieval systems that manipulate digital data in any medium (text, images, sounds; static or dynamic images) and exist in distributed networks. The content of digital libraries includes data, metadata that describe various aspects of the data (such as representation, creator, owner, reproduction rights), and metadata that consist of links or relationships to other data or metadata, whether internal or external to the digital library”.
Open source software in the establishment of institutional repository (IR) systems in local libraries, using either Greenstone,
Fedora, DSpace or EPrints. These libraries are vouching on the successful implementation in the local library set up, so that it can then be up-scaled to institution-wide application through campus networks or intranet. A healthy uptake of the institution-wide set up may then open up to wider audiences with the availability of dedicated information infrastructure combined with broadband connectivity and national educational policies. Digital libraries provide access to different types of information resources, which may be organised in varying ways by their producers or access providers. It is a challenge for a given digital library to build and /or adopt a simple and yet effective method for organising information.Organized collections of information” which are collected and digitized making it possible for the creation of a digital library “Focused collection of digital objects, including text, video and audio with methods for access and retrieval, and for selection, organization and maintenance.
Open source software in the establishment of institutional repository (IR) systems in local libraries, using either Greenstone,
Fedora, DSpace or EPrints. These libraries are vouching on the successful implementation in the local library set up, so that it can then be up-scaled to institution-wide application through campus networks or intranet. A healthy uptake of the institution-wide set up may then open up to wider audiences with the availability of dedicated information infrastructure combined with broadband connectivity and national educational policies. Digital libraries provide access to different types of information resources, which may be organised in varying ways by their producers or access providers. It is a challenge for a given digital library to build and /or adopt a simple and yet effective method for organising information.Organized collections of information” which are collected and digitized making it possible for the creation of a digital library “Focused collection of digital objects, including text, video and audio with methods for access and retrieval, and for selection, organization and maintenance.
Ensure Open Access:
Ensure Connectivity to the computer network and available content. Ensure that the technology is usable and the user has the requisite skills and the knowledge. Avoid proprietary hardware and software solutions whenever possible.
Digital Library Services:
Reference service and information services are the integral to traditional services. Although digital library research and development so far has not concentrated on them, reference services should form an important part of digital libraries.
Library automation is the general term for information and communications technologies (ICT) that are used to replace manual systems in the library. The word “library” has been appropriated by many different groups to signify simply a collection of digital objects that people can access from their desktops digital objects like electronic documents, and digitized pictures, sound, and video. A global information network, of which the Internet is the seed, has the illusion of promising fingertip access to the world’s information. A fairly spectacular example of what many people consider to be a digital library today is the World Wide Web. The Web is a gathering of thousands and thousands of documents. Many would call this huge collection of documents a “digital library” because they can read and use whatever they wish by accessing the Web, just as one can use technology to do banking in a “digital bank” or buy compact discs in a “digital record store”.
Digital information on the Internet is characterized by the fact that digital documents can
exist in several formats, possibly in several versions, in locations that are not yet fixed. A
document or resource may exist at one network location one day, and disappear the next.Services such as AltaVista, YAHOO, and other WWW services are increasingly popular. These indexing services provide an essential service in assisting users to find information. But users are already noting that these services are becoming overburdened and that obtaining meaningful results can be frustratingly elusive.
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