Digital libraries /
William Y. Arms.
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2000.
- x, 287 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Digital libraries and electronic publishing. .
- Digital libraries and electronic publishing. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Libraries, technology, and people. -- The Internet and the World Wide Web. -- Libraries and publishers. -- Innovation and research. -- People, organizations and change. -- Economic and legal issues. -- Access management and security. -- User interfaces and usability. -- Text. -- Information retrieval and descriptive metadata. -- Distributed information discovery. -- Object models, identifiers, and structural metadata. -- Repositories and archives. -- Digital libraries and electronic publishing today.
"The emergence of the Internet and the wide availability of affordable computing equipment have created tremendous interest in digital libraries and electronic publishing. This book is the first to provide an integrated overview of the field, including a historical perspective, a survey of the state of the art, and an examination of current research."--BOOK JACKET.
Libraries--Special collections--Electronic information resources.--United States Digital libraries--United States. Digital libraries. Libraries--Automation. Libraries--Data processing. Library information networks.