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Putting Content Online. A Practical Guide for Libraries
โ Scribed by Mark Jordan (Auth.)
- Publisher
- Chandos Publishing
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 353
- Series
- Chandos Information Professional Series
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Synopsis
This book focuses on practical, standards-based approaches to planning, executing and managing projects in which libraries and other cultural institutions digitize material and make it available on the web (or make collections of born-digital material available). Topics include evaluating material for digitization, intellectual property issues, metadata standards, digital library content management systems, search and retrieval considerations, project management, project operations, proposal writing, and libraries' emerging role as publishers.
- Highly practical. Explains complex processes, warns of potential challenges and provides advice for solving realistic problems
- Comprehensive: includes coverage of the range of techniques and strategies for digitizing and organizing material that practitioners can use to plan and implement digitization projects
โฆ Table of Contents
Content:
Front matter, Pages i-iii
Copyright, Page iv
Acknowledgements, Page xi
List of figures, Pages xiii-xiv
List of tables, Pages xv-xvi
About the author, Page xvii
1 - Introduction, Pages 1-16
2 - Preliminary tasks, Pages 17-35
3 - Copyright and digital library collections, Pages 37-51
4 - Metadata for digital collections, Pages 53-92
5 - File formats, Pages 93-120
6 - Search and display, Pages 121-150
7 - Content management systems, Pages 151-175
8 - Project management, Pages 177-211
9 - Project operations, Pages 213-253
10 - Developing workflows, Pages 255-282
11 - Preservation strategies, Pages 283-304
12 - A case study, Pages 305-339
Index, Pages 341-349
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