- Paperback: 302 pages
- Publisher: MIT Press; New edition edition (3 Sep 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0262511274
- ISBN-13: 978-0262511278
- Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 15.9 x 1.8 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,467,480 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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These days we seem to be creating information faster than we can store it, but the near future is looking bright. Cornell University professor William Y Arms offers a programme for that future in Digital Libraries, a synthesis of library and computer sciences that presents the history and current developments in each field with special emphasis on their interactions.
Since the book necessarily must appeal to a broad spectrum of professionals, any given reader will find some parts elementary, but Arms clearly maps the common ground and much of the text will appeal to all. Chapters covering the basics of information management, the Internet, security, archives and retrieval bridge the traditional books-and-shelves library systems and the often jury-rigged information architecture developed through 40 years of computer use.
While the text is laden with plenty of sidebars that contain historical information or definitions--crucial for professionals entering the interdisciplinary zone--they tend to break up the flow unacceptably. Although it's important to understand both MARC codes and TCP/IP protocols, it is best for each reader to decide what supplementary information is most needed.
Digital Libraries is an ambitious and important book--if we are to develop truly efficient and accessible information management systems, everyone concerned must understand their shared history and move forward as one. --Rob Lightner, Amazon.com --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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"Bill Arms offers a comprehensive look at Digital Libraries from many perspectives. He's right: we're just at the beginning of this story. The best is yet to come."--Vint Cerf, Senior Vice President, Internet Architecture and Technology, MCI WorldCom
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The fundamental reason for building digital libraries is a belief that they will provide better delivery of information than was possible in the past. Read the first page
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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.
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