Building Digital Libraries: Second Edition (How-To-Do-It Manuals)

Whether you're embarking on the challenge of building a digital collection from scratch, or simply need to understand the conceptual and technical challenges of constructing a digital library, this top-to-bottom resource is the ideal guidebook to keep at your side, especially in this thoroughly updated and reworked edition. Demonstrating how resources are created, distributed, and accessed, and how librarians can keep up with the latest technologies for successfully completing these tasks, its chapters walk you step-by-step through every stage. Demystifying core technologies and workflows, this book comprehensively covers needs assessment and planning for a digital repository; choosing a platform; acquiring, processing, classifying, and describing digital content; storing and managing resources in a digital repository; digital preservation; technologies and standards useful to digital repositories, including XML, the Portland Common Data Model, metadata schema such as Dublin Core, scripting using JSON and REST, linked open data, and automated metadata assignment; sharing data and metadata; understanding information-access issues, including digital rights management; and analyzing repository use, planning for the future, migrating to new platforms, and accommodating new types of data. This book will thoroughly orient LIS students and others new to the world of digital libraries, and also ensure that current professionals have the knowledge and guidance necessary to construct a digital repository from its inception. Building Digital Libraries, Second Edition Title Page Copyright Page Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Getting Started Should You Build a Repository? Selling the Project Getting Your Repository off the Ground 2. Choosing a Repository Architecture Questions to Ask before Choosing an Architecture Who Are the Users and What Do They Need? What Types of Collections Will It Contain? How Are Assets Acquired? What Rights Management and Access Controls Do You Need? How Does the Repository Handle Preservation? How Will the Repository Be Managed? Other High-Level Platform Decisions Building the Requirements List General Metadata Automation Access Control Resource and Data Management 3. Acquiring, Processing, Classifying, and Describing Digital Content Planning Workflow Collection Development Acquiring Content Object Requirements Transform Kick the Can down the Road Outsourcing Organizing Content and Assigning Metadata Structuring Content Crowd-Sourcing Resource Identification Setting Up Workflow Batch Processes Rights Management Protecting the Integrity of Resources 4. Preservation Planning What Is Digital Preservation? Preserving the Content and Context, Not the Medium Why Preservation Doesn’t Happen Language Difference between IT and Cultural Heritage Staff Getting Comfortable with Good Enough People, Not Software, Enable Preservation The Maturity Model Preservation File Formats Cloud-Based Digital Preservation Services Summary 5. General-Purpose Technologies Useful for Digital Repositories The Changing Face of Metadata XML in Libraries XHTML XPath XForms XSLT XLink XQuery XPointer XML Schema Why Use XML-Based Metadata XML Is Human-Readable XML Offers a Quicker Cataloging Strategy Multi-Formatted and Embedded Documents Metadata Becomes “Smarter” Metadata Becomes “Connected” Not Just a Library Standard JSON Data Manipulation Programming Languages Programming Tools Software Tools Application Development REST (Representational State Transfer) SPARQL (SPARQL Protocol and RDF Query Language) SRU (Search and Retrieval via URL) Code Management Future of Software Development Mobile Application Development Applications Continue to Become More Micro Deeper Reliance on Interpreted Languages and JavaScript Sharing Your Services Summary 6. Metadata Formats Metadata Primitives MARC MARC21XML Dublin Core MODS METS IIIF BIBFRAME Domain-Specific Metadata Formats Embedded Metadata Formats PCDM (Portland Common Data Model) Semantic Web Summary 7. Sharing Data The Evolving Role of Libraries Metadata Doesn’t Want to Be Free . . . If It Did, It Would Be Easy Linked Data Sharing Metadata XSLT XQuery Metadata Crosswalking OAI-PMH OAI-PMH Verbs9 Facilitating Third-Party Indexing Metadata Repurposing The Oregon State University Electronic Theses Process The Ohio State University Libraries: Automatic Data Transfer of Digital Content between the Internet Archive and the HathiTrust Summary 8. Access Management Copyright Access Control Mechanisms Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) Single Sign-On (SSO) Central Authentication Service (CAS) Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) Shibboleth OpenID OAuth and Social Media Authentication Athens Active Directory Internal Authentication IP-Based Authentication Vended Authentication Implementing Access Control 9. Thinking about Discovery Unpacking Discovery? Federated Search and Digital Libraries Why Think about Discovery Current Research Searching Protocols Z39.50 SRU/SRW OpenSearch Linking Protocols OpenURL DOI (Digital Object Identifiers) Search Engine Support Evaluating User Needs Developmental Needs User Needs Summary 10. Planning for the Future Providing Information That People Need Libraries’ New Roles Learning from the Past Adapting to Change Consolidation and Specialization The Shared Environment Federated Vocabularies Summary Index "This top-to-bottom resource is the ideal guidebook to keep at your side. Demystifying core technologies and workflows, its chapters walk you step-by-step through needs assessment and planning for a digital repository; acquiring processing, classifying, and describing digital content; storing and managing resources in a digital repository; technologies and standards useful to digital repositories, including XML, the Portland Common Data Model, metadata schema such as Dublin Core, scripting using JSON and REST, linked open data, and automated metadata assignment; and analyzing repository use, planning for the future, migrating to new platforms, and accommodating new types of data"-- Provided by publisher "This top-to-bottom resource is the ideal guidebook to keep at your side. Demystifying core technologies and workflows, its chapters walk you step-by-step through needs assessment and planning for a digital repository; acquiring processing, classifying, and describing digital content; storing and managing resources in a digital repository; technologies and standards useful to digital repositories, including XML, the Portland Common Data Model, metadata schema such as Dublin Core, scripting using JSON and REST, linked open data, and automated metadata assignment; and analyzing repository use, planning for the future, migrating to new platforms, and accommodating new types of data. --Résumé de l'éditeur