Digital Libraries (Digital Libraries and Electronic Publishing)

By William Y. Arms

Book Overview

Provides an integrated overview of digital librairies, including a historical perspective, the state of the art, and late-1990s research. Although the book covers a range of technical, economic, social and organizational topics, the focus is on the actual working components of a digital library.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262011808
• ISBN13: 9780262011808
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 287 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Introduction to Digital Libraries

While I was a little bit disappointed about the lack of in-depth detail, I must say that _Digital Libraries_ provides an excellent overview of the range of issues surrounding managed collections of digital information.Arms covers everything from the economic and legal issues (nice coverage of the issues involved for publishers!) to the concepts behind object models and structural metadata. The book finishes with a glossary which should prove useful to those trying to wade through the alphabet soup around asset management and digital library technology.Given that this is an overview, I missed a good bibliography for people interested in taking any of the topics in the book to a deeper level.