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Libraries, the Internet, and scholarship : tools and trends converging
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Libraries, the Internet, and scholarship : tools and trends converging

Author: Charles Franklin Thomas
Publisher: New York : Marcel Dekker, 2002.
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Charles Franklin Thomas
ISBN: 0824707729 9780824707729
OCLC Number: 49028846
Description: xiv, 217 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Machine generated contents note: 1. Libraries and Digital Preservation: Who Is Providing Electronic Access for Tomorrow? -- Kelly Russell -- Introduction 1 -- Background and Context 2 -- The Changing Face of Preservation 4 -- A Context for Digital Preservation 6 -- The Scale of the Problem 7 -- What Is "Digital Preservation?" 8 -- Preservation Digitization 9 -- Technology Dependence and Media Longevity 10 -- Case Studies 11 -- Storage Media 12 -- Digital Archaeology 13 -- Strategies for Digital Preservation 14 -- Reliance on Hard Copy 15 -- Technology Preservation 17 -- Technology Emulation 17 -- Migration 19 -- Portable Data 20 -- Collection Management and Digital Preservation 21 -- Intellectual Property Rights and Digital -- Preservation 22 -- Responsibility Issues 24 -- Developing Preservation Policies 26 -- Conclusion 27 -- End Notes 28 -- 2. The Internet, Scholarly Communication, and Collaborative Research 31 -- Rosemary L. Meszaros -- Introduction 31 -- The Crisis in Scholarly Publishing 32 -- A Promising Forecast for Scholarship 33 -- The Internet's Impact Explained 35 -- Potential Pitfalls 36 -- Intellectual Property 37 -- Models of Scholarly Communication and Research -- Online 38 -- Conclusion 42 -- End Notes 42 -- 3. From Virtual Libraries to Digital Libraries: The Role of Digital Libraries in Information -- Communities 45 -- David Robins -- Introduction 46 -- Conceptual Background 48 -- Traditional Library 48 -- Virtual Library 51 -- Digital Libraries 53 -- Digital Library Initiatives 54 -- National Science Foundation's Digital Library Initiative 55 -- Community 57 -- Information Community 59 -- Libraries and Information Communities: A Model that Worked 60 -- Information Communities and Digital Libraries: New Directions 64 -- A New Model for Digital Libraries and Information Communities 69 -- Some Caveats Regarding the Role of Digital Libraries in Information Communities 71 -- Conclusion 72 -- End Notes 73 -- 4. Integrating Metadata Frameworks into Library Description 77 -- William Fietzer -- Introduction 77 -- Facts and Figures 79 -- What Is Metadata? 80 -- Standards and Interoperability 81 -- The Dublin Core and Warwick Framework 82 -- Crosswalks and Associated Issues 84 -- The Need for Thesauri 87 -- Multilingual Environmental Thesauri 88 -- Problems of Concept and Cost 90 -- Production Costs and Concerns 91 -- The Human Factor 91 -- Limitations and Concerns of Each Method 95 -- Limited Publics 96 -- Knowing the Market 97 -- Conclusion 98 -- End Notes 100 -- 5. Technology's Impact on Research and Publication in the Natural Sciences 103 -- David P. Atkins and Flora G. Shrode -- Introduction 103 -- Taxonomy and Related Disciplines 105 -- Taxonomic and Systematics Data 107 -- Taxonomic and Systematic Database Initiatives 109 -- Taxonomic Databases: What's in a Name? 111 -- Successful Initiatives 112 -- Phylogenetics Initiatives 113 -- NBII and the Integrated Taxonomic Information System 113 -- NBII and the PLANTS National Database 114 -- Biological or Nonspatial Metadata Standards 115 -- International Initiatives: Global Plants Checklist and Species2000 116 -- Integrating Databases: Some Cases 117 -- Bioinformatics and Genomics 118 -- Genetic and Protein Sequence Databases 120 -- Journals: Communicating the Research 121 -- Discussion: What Really Works? 123 -- Conclusion 126 -- End Notes 127 -- 6. Electronic Text Encoding in the Humanities 133 -- Perry Willett -- Introduction 133 -- Moving from Print to Digital 135 -- What Is Encoding? 137 -- Encoding Characters 138 -- Encoding Documents 139 -- Differences Between HTML and TEI Encoding 144 -- Bringing SGML to the Masses: XML 149 -- Issues in Encoding Literary Works 150 -- References 152 -- End Notes 153 -- 7. Visual Resources Collections and Technology 155 -- Paula Hardin -- Introduction 155 -- Working with Data 156 -- The Power of Databases 157 -- The Internet and World Wide Web 158 -- Digitization Projects 160 -- An Example of a Digital Visual Resources Project 162 -- Technology as a Learning and Growth Tool for VR Professionals 166 -- Conclusion 166 -- 8. An Introduction to Geographic Information Systems 169 -- Farrell W. Jones -- What Is GIS? 169 -- What Is Not a GIS? 171 -- GIS: A Discipline or Just a Tool? 172 -- The Classifications of GIS 173 -- The Components of a GIS 177 -- Conclusion 188 -- 9. Social Science Data and the Digital Library 191 -- Wendy L. Thomas -- Introduction 191 -- History of Digital Data 192 -- Issues in Creating a Virtual Data Library 193 -- Preservation 196 -- The Data Documentation Initiative 198 -- Conclusion 201 -- End Notes 202.
Responsibility: edited by Charles F. Thomas.
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