Core infrastructure considerations for large digital libraries
By: by Geneva Henry
Contributors: Council on Library and Information Resources; Digital Library Federation
Series: CLIR publication -- no. 153; CLIR publication -- no. 153.
Publisher: Council on Library and Information Resources, Digital Library Federation
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Washington DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 19
ISBN-13: 9781932326413
Subjects: Digital libraries; Information technology; Information resources management
Description: "This study examines the core infrastructure elements of systems that manage large quantities of digital materials that one would think of as a digital library. An examination of the infrastructures of a few make it possible to understand the diverse approaches each has taken to manage digital content. This study focuses on large, noncommercial digital libraries. Published in collaboration with CLIR's Digital Library Federation program."--Publisher description.
Notes: "July 2012."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 17-19).
Table of contents: title: About the author; title: Acknowledgments; title: Introduction; title: Storage and content delivery; title: Storage; title: Servers; title: Databases and repository platforms; title: Content distribution and format assumptions; title: Metadata approaches and harvesting; title: Metadata formats; title: Management of metadata with content; title: Harvesting and content ingestion; title: Search and discovery; title: Services and applications; title: System sustainability; title: Summary; title: References; title: Additional resources.