Description

Librarians embarking on the challenge of building a digital collection have their work cut out for them--and here is the book to help launch and complete the mission! Easy to understand, this guide demonstrates how resources are created, distributed, and accessed--and how librarians can keep up with the latest technologies for successfully completing these tasks. Chapters walk you step-by-step through all of the stages. This book offers detailed advice for: *Planning for and assessing the purpose of your digital repository; *Acquiring, processing, classifying and describing digital content; *Storing documents; *Choosing a platform; *Specific technologies useful to digital repositories (XML, SOAP, and more); *Sharing data; *Federated searching of repositories; *Understanding information-access issues; *Analyzing repository use; *Migrating to new platforms and accommodating new types of data