TY - CHAP
T1 - Digital Libraries
T2 - Social Issues and Technological Advances
AU - Chen, Hsinchun
AU - Houston, Andrea L.
N1 - Funding Information:
The goal of the Making of America (MOA) Project is to create and make accessible (over the Internet) a distributed digital library of materials on the history of the United States. The Cornell University and University of Michigan libraries have cooperated in the initial phase of MOA, which has been funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Charles E. Culpeper Foundation. The MOA project is designed to select complementary journals and monographs on 19th-century US history from the two universities, create digital images of the material in a manner that ensures full capture of all significant information, and provide equitable access to the combined digital collection from both campuses.
PY - 1999
Y1 - 1999
N2 - Abstract. The location and provision of information services has dramatically changed over the last ten years. There is no need to leave the home or office to locate and access information now readily available on-line via digital gateways furnished by a wide variety of information providers, (e.g. libraries, electronic publishers, businesses, organizations, individuals). Information access is no longer restricted to what is physically available in the nearest library. It is electronically accessible from a wide variety of globally distributed information repositories-"digital libraries". In this chapter we will focus on digital libraries, starting with a discussion of the historical visionaries, definitions, driving forces and enabling technologies and some key research issues. We will discuss some of the US and international digital library projects and research initiatives. We will then describe some of the emerging techniques for building large-scale digital libraries, including a discussion of semantic interoperability, the "Grand Challenge" of digital library research. Finally, we offer our conclusions and a discussion of some future directions for digital libraries.
AB - Abstract. The location and provision of information services has dramatically changed over the last ten years. There is no need to leave the home or office to locate and access information now readily available on-line via digital gateways furnished by a wide variety of information providers, (e.g. libraries, electronic publishers, businesses, organizations, individuals). Information access is no longer restricted to what is physically available in the nearest library. It is electronically accessible from a wide variety of globally distributed information repositories-"digital libraries". In this chapter we will focus on digital libraries, starting with a discussion of the historical visionaries, definitions, driving forces and enabling technologies and some key research issues. We will discuss some of the US and international digital library projects and research initiatives. We will then describe some of the emerging techniques for building large-scale digital libraries, including a discussion of semantic interoperability, the "Grand Challenge" of digital library research. Finally, we offer our conclusions and a discussion of some future directions for digital libraries.
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U2 - 10.1016/S0065-2458(08)60022-4
DO - 10.1016/S0065-2458(08)60022-4
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:27844551964
T3 - Advances in Computers
SP - 257
EP - 314
BT - Advances in Computers
PB - Academic Press Inc.
ER -