Digital Library Economics

Digital Library Economics covers key aspects of the management and development of the digital library from an economic viewpoint. The work is a collection of essays by leading international authorities and provides an overview of current and future positions with regard to the economics of digital library management and development. Key contextual aspects are described, providing a history of the growth of digital libraries, with special reference to financial issues, current and possible future economic models and costing methodologies and challenges, themes and issues in the field. Incorporates past developments, current good practice and future trends Written by recognized national and international authorities There is little else in the field: it fills a major gap in the literature

This book provides a companion volume to Digital Library Economics and focuses on the ‘how to’ of managing digital collections and services (of all types) with regard to their financing and financial management. The emphasis is on case studies and practical examples drawn from a wide variety of contexts. A Handbook of Digital Library Economics is a practical manual for those involved – or expecting to be involved – in the development and management of digital libraries. Provides practical approach to the subject Focuses on the challenges associated with the economic and financial aspects of digital developments Will be valuable to practitioners, and tutors and students in a wide variety of situations

Digital Library Economics covers key aspects of the management and development of the digital library from an economic viewpoint. The work is a collection of essays by leading international authorities and provides an overview of current and future positions with regard to the economics of digital library management and development. Key contextual aspects are described, providing a history of the growth of digital libraries, with special reference to financial issues, current and possible future economic models and costing methodologies and challenges, themes and issues in the field.

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 76. Chapters: Dublin Core, Baen Free Library, List of digital library projects, E-text, Online Books Page, Open Archives Initiative, Digital preservation, Internet Archive, Google Books Library Project, New media art preservation, Traditional Knowledge Digital Library, List of digital preservation initiatives, BagIt, Encoded Archival Description, Book scanning, Yudu Media, Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting, List of online magazines, PRONOM technical registry, Digital Media Repository, Digital Library of Slovenia, National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program, Vascoda, University of Florida Digital Collections, LOCKSS, Digital Preservation Coalition, Digital curation, Open Content Alliance, Digital dark age, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries Digital Collections, Digital Library Federation, Universal library, Electronic Resource Preservation and Access Network, METS, The Muslim Philanthropy Digital Library, Homeland Security Digital Library, Wikibooks, Xena, Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse, Heurist, Resource Map, Preservation metadata, Data library, Digital Repository Audit Method Based on Risk Assessment, Digital Library of the Caribbean, Alsos Digital Library for Nuclear Issues, Technological Innovation and Cooperation for Foreign Information Access, Open Archival Information System, Digital reformatting, Open Archives Initiative Object Reuse and Exchange, EconBiz - Virtual Library for Economics and Business Studies, Drug Industry Document Archive, North Carolina Learning Object Repository, Book Rights Registry, Global Legal Information Network, Virtual school library, Open Library, Digital obsolescence, Digital Collections Selection Criteria, Telematics for Libraries Program, Digital Commons, Western Waters Digital Library, Digital Curation Centre, Rock & Roll...

The End of Wisdom? The Future of Libraries in a Digital Age assembles opinion pieces, forecasts, strategy options, and case studies from leading worldwide politicians, academics, educators, authors, publishers, captains of industry, senior public sector workers, library directors, IT gurus and other key players in the field of information provision who discuss their views on the hypothesis surrounding the "end of libraries" and the "death of books." The contributions – ranging in length from 500 to 2000 words are analyzed and summarized to create a rich picture of current trends and likely futures for libraries of all types, with digital options discussed in detail. Focuses on the key issue facing library and information services for the foreseeable future Takes a much broader view by asking a wide range of key people and representative stakeholders and user groups for their view of the future of libraries of all kinds Presents a comprehensive analysis of likely directions and options for libraries, library managers, and users Includes a route map for the future Builds on the successful approaches adopted in A Handbook of Digital Library Economics and Libraries and Society

Economic Considerations for Libraries, Archives and Museums provides insight into the economics of collaboration across Libraries, Archives, and Museums (LAMs) and cultural heritage funding. Drawing together a series of global reflections on the past, present and future of cross-sector approaches to preserving and promoting cultural heritage, this volume examines the economic prospects of LAMs from a variety of facets. Divided into five sections, the book covers the five most important areas in the development and sustainability of collaborative LAM projects: the digital environment; collaborative models; education; funding issues; and alternate sources of funding. Responding directly to the issue of a lack of adequate funding for maintaining and providing access to cultural heritage resources globally, the book argues that cultural heritage institutions must seek creative methods for funding and collaboration at all levels to achieve shared goals. Economic Considerations for Libraries, Archives and Museums will be of interest to all those engaged in the study of library and information science, archival studies, museum studies and digital preservation. Administrators and practitioners will also find much to interest them within the pages of the book.

The web has evolved from a piece of software code into an interdependent techno-social system of multi-purpose functionalities. From an interlinked bulletin board with low levels of interaction, a system of multiple interlocking contexts has developed which is now responsible for a substantial share of our financial transactions. Users not only post and link digital content, but also communicate, work, advertise and exchange information. Multi-fold social and economic interactions result in a dynamic compound of moral values and code. Web science constitutes a systematic effort to investigate the salient features and implications of this compound by studying the web as a self-standing techno-social artifact. The economic aspects of the web are fundamental but still unexplored in this agenda.

If you work in a university, you are almost certain to have heard the term 'open access' in the past couple of years. You may also have heard either that it is the utopian answer to all the problems of research dissemination or perhaps that it marks the beginning of an apocalyptic new era of 'pay-to-say' publishing. In this book, Martin Paul Eve sets out the histories, contexts and controversies for open access, specifically in the humanities. Broaching practical elements alongside economic histories, open licensing, monographs and funder policies, this book is a must-read for both those new to ideas about open-access scholarly communications and those with an already keen interest in the latest developments for the humanities. This title is also available as Open Access via Cambridge Books Online.

Digital library is commonly seen as a type of information retrieval system which stores and accesses digital content remotely via computer networks. However, the vision of digital libraries is not limited to technology or management, but user experience. This book is an attempt to share the practical experiences of solutions to the operation of digital libraries. To indicate interdisciplinary routes towards successful applications, the chapters in this book explore the implication of digital libraries from the perspectives of design, operation, and promotion. Without common agreement on a broadly accepted model of digital libraries, authors from diverse fields seek to develop theories and empirical investigations that to advance our understanding of digital libraries.

Digital Libraries: Policy, Planning and Practice brings together a wealth of international experience in the planning and implementation of digital and hybrid library projects, providing a stimulating and informative handbook and reference for library staff and information managers. It consists of chapters contributed by leading specialists from Europe, North America, South Africa and the Middle East, who offer their insight into the decision-making processes that have shaped a variety of different digitization programmes. Beginning with introductory overviews of the digital library context, the US Digital Library Program and the UK e-lib and hybrid library programmes, Digital Libraries then divides into two main sections on policy and planning, and implementation and practice. The first explores concerns such as financial and resource planning, digitized compared to born-digital content and related service issues, open access to scholarly research archives, policies for and against preservation and their justification, and evaluating electronic information services. The second section is based on case studies on major European and North American digital library projects, including the Glasgow Digital Library, UCEEL (University of Central England Electronic Library), the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (discussed in the context of five international projects), the Indiana University music Variations and Variations2 Project, and the beginnings of the Library of Congress digital program and its integration into core library services. The concluding chapter discusses the way forward for digital libraries in the context of experiences at Tilburg University library, and possible enabling or limiting factors in the future. The result of drawing together these varied and illuminating experiences is a book that offers useful information and comparisons for all digital library project staff, institutional administrators, educators and developers of learning technology. It also provides useful pointers for researchers and project staff involved in archive and museum projects, as well as introducing students to the key ingredients of successful digital libraries.

This fully revised and updated second edition of Understanding Digital Libraries focuses on the challenges faced by both librarians and computer scientists in a field that has been dramatically altered by the growth of the Web. At every turn, the goal is practical: to show you how things you might need to do are already being done, or how they can be done. The first part of the book is devoted to technology and examines issues such as varying media requirements, indexing and classification, networks and distribution, and presentation. The second part of the book is concerned with the human contexts in which digital libraries function. Here you’ll find specific and useful information on usability, preservation, scientific applications, and thorny legal and economic questions. Thoroughly updated and expanded from original edition to include recent research, case studies and new technologies For librarians and technologists alike, this book provides a thorough introduction to the interdisciplinary science of digital libraries Written by Michael Lesk, a legend in computer science and a leading figure in the digital library field Provides insights into the integration of both the technical and non-technical aspects of digital libraries

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 64. Chapters: Ambling Audio Books, Analytical Sciences Digital Library, Anemi, The Digital Library of Modern Greek Studies, AnimalBase, Archive of European Integration, ArXiv, Astrophysics Data System, Avalon Project, Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature, Biodiversity Heritage Library, Biodiversity Heritage Library for Europe, Central and Eastern European Online Library, Chinese Text Project, Choral Public Domain Library, Christian Classics Ethereal Library, Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies, Community informatics, Core Historical Literature of Agriculture, Corpus Coranicum, Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project, David Rumsey Historical Map Collection, Digital Accounting Collection, Digital Archive Project, Disciplinary repository, Dryad (repository), EconBiz - Virtual Library for Economics and Business Studies, EGranary Digital Libraries, EGranary Digital Library, Electronic Colloquium on Computational Complexity, EServer.org, EuroDocs: Online Sources for European History, FT Press, GEO-LEO, Infoshop.org, International Children's Digital Library, International Farming Systems Collection, International Music Score Library Project, Internet History Sourcebooks Project, Internet library sub-saharan Africa (ilissAfrica), Internet Sacred Text Archive, JournalServer, Judaica Archival Project, Judaic Digital Library, LacusCurtius, LANL Research Library, Library of Economics and Liberty, LibriVox, Literary Kicks, Live Music Archive, Marxists Internet Archive, Moby Project, Multinational Publications Electronic Library, Musopen, Mutopia Project, National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Geospatial Digital Archive, National Science Digital Library, Nizkor Project, Online Bible, On This Day, Open Humanities Press, Ovation Press, Oxford Text Archive, Parker Library on the Web, Perseus...

Economics is the nexus and engine that runs society, affecting societal well-being, raising standards of living when economies prosper or lowering citizens through class structures when economies perform poorly. Our society only has to witness the booms and busts of the past decade to see how economics profoundly affects the cores of societies around the world. From a household budget to international trade, economics ranges from the micro- to the macro-level. It relates to a breadth of social science disciplines that help describe the content of the proposed encyclopedia, which will explicitly approach economics through varied disciplinary lenses. Although there are encyclopedias of covering economics (especially classic economic theory and history), the SAGE Encyclopedia of Economics and Society emphasizes the contemporary world, contemporary issues, and society. Features: 4 volumes with approximately 800 signed articles ranging from 1,000 to 5,000 words each are presented in a choice of print or electronic editions Organized A-to-Z with a thematic Reader's Guide in the front matter groups related entries Articles conclude with References & Future Readings to guide students to the next step on their research journeys Cross-references between and among articles combine with a thorough Index and the Reader's Guide to enhance search-and-browse in the electronic version Pedagogical elements include a Chronology of Economics and Society, Resource Guide, and Glossary This academic, multi-author reference work will serve as a general, non-technical resource for students and researchers within social science programs who seek to better understand economics through a contemporary lens.

Software legend Capers Jones reveals the tight links between software quality, ROI, and TCO, and help you optimize all three • •Strong empirical evidence that high quality generates strongly positive ROI and reduced TCO. •Practical ways to prevent defects, and remove them in pre-test, test, and postrelease. •Easy checklists for assessing and improving practice, plus insights into the costs/benefits of intervention. •By renowned software consultant Capers Jones. In this book, world-renowned software management expert Capers Jones and software quality guru Jitendra Subramanyam help development leaders and practitioners quantify and optimize the economic impact of quality throughout the software lifecycle - and then choose the highest value interventions to improve it. The authors introduce powerful empirical and field data on the ability of inspection, static analysis, and test methods to reduce up to 95% of defects, and discuss the business value of improvements of this magnitude. The Economics of Software Quality is based on proven best quality practices in IT departments and at world-leading integrators, embedded software companies, and systems software groups. Jones and Curtis bring together crucial new information on: • •Identifying and fixing the root causes of short- and long-term software cost inefficiencies. •Predicting and measuring software defects and their quality impacts. •Assessing current practices and identifying the best interventions. •Calculating the ROI of quality during development and maintenance. •Comparing and choosing methods of defect prevention. •Selecting methods of defect removal, such as inspections and static analysis. •Understanding and evaluating more than 20 kinds of software testing. •Best practices for postrelease defect reporting and repair. •Recognizing 'hazardous' metrics and their problems