Libraries, the Internet, and scholarship
Subtitle: tools and trends converging
By: edited by Charles F. Thomas.
Contributors: Thomas, Charles Franklin, 1967-
Publisher: Marcel Dekker
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
Subjects: Libraries -- Special collections -- Electronic information resources.; Libraries and scholars.; Digital libraries.; Research libraries.; Internet in higher education.; Communication in learning and scholarship.; Libraries and the Internet.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1. Libraries and Digital Preservation: Who Is Providing Electronic Access for Tomorrow?; title: Kelly Russell; title: Introduction 1; title: Background and Context 2; title: The Changing Face of Preservation 4; title: A Context for Digital Preservation 6; title: The Scale of the Problem 7; title: What Is "Digital Preservation?" 8; title: Preservation Digitization 9; title: Technology Dependence and Media Longevity 10; title: Case Studies 11; title: Storage Media 12; title: Digital Archaeology 13; title: Strategies for Digital Preservation 14; title: Reliance on Hard Copy 15; title: Technology Preservation 17; title: Technology Emulation 17; title: Migration 19; title: Portable Data 20; title: Collection Management and Digital Preservation 21; title: Intellectual Property Rights and Digital; title: Preservation 22; title: Responsibility Issues 24; title: Developing Preservation Policies 26; title: Conclusion 27; title: End Notes 28; title: 2. The Internet, Scholarly Communication, and Collaborative Research 31; title: Rosemary L. Meszaros; title: Introduction 31; title: The Crisis in Scholarly Publishing 32; title: A Promising Forecast for Scholarship 33; title: The Internet's Impact Explained 35; title: Potential Pitfalls 36; title: Intellectual Property 37; title: Models of Scholarly Communication and Research; title: Online 38; title: Conclusion 42; title: End Notes 42; title: 3. From Virtual Libraries to Digital Libraries: The Role of Digital Libraries in Information; title: Communities 45; title: David Robins; title: Introduction 46; title: Conceptual Background 48; title: Traditional Library 48; title: Virtual Library 51; title: Digital Libraries 53; title: Digital Library Initiatives 54; title: National Science Foundation's Digital Library Initiative 55; title: Community 57; title: Information Community 59; title: Libraries and Information Communities: A Model that Worked 60; title: Information Communities and Digital Libraries: New Directions 64; title: A New Model for Digital Libraries and Information Communities 69; title: Some Caveats Regarding the Role of Digital Libraries in Information Communities 71; title: Conclusion 72; title: End Notes 73; title: 4. Integrating Metadata Frameworks into Library Description 77; title: William Fietzer; title: Introduction 77; title: Facts and Figures 79; title: What Is Metadata? 80; title: Standards and Interoperability 81; title: The Dublin Core and Warwick Framework 82; title: Crosswalks and Associated Issues 84; title: The Need for Thesauri 87; title: Multilingual Environmental Thesauri 88; title: Problems of Concept and Cost 90; title: Production Costs and Concerns 91; title: The Human Factor 91; title: Limitations and Concerns of Each Method 95; title: Limited Publics 96; title: Knowing the Market 97; title: Conclusion 98; title: End Notes 100; title: 5. Technology's Impact on Research and Publication in the Natural Sciences 103; title: David P. Atkins and Flora G. Shrode; title: Introduction 103; title: Taxonomy and Related Disciplines 105; title: Taxonomic and Systematics Data 107; title: Taxonomic and Systematic Database Initiatives 109; title: Taxonomic Databases: What's in a Name? 111; title: Successful Initiatives 112; title: Phylogenetics Initiatives 113; title: NBII and the Integrated Taxonomic Information System 113; title: NBII and the PLANTS National Database 114; title: Biological or Nonspatial Metadata Standards 115; title: International Initiatives: Global Plants Checklist and Species2000 116; title: Integrating Databases: Some Cases 117; title: Bioinformatics and Genomics 118; title: Genetic and Protein Sequence Databases 120; title: Journals: Communicating the Research 121; title: Discussion: What Really Works? 123; title: Conclusion 126; title: End Notes 127; title: 6. Electronic Text Encoding in the Humanities 133; title: Perry Willett; title: Introduction 133; title: Moving from Print to Digital 135; title: What Is Encoding? 137; title: Encoding Characters 138; title: Encoding Documents 139; title: Differences Between HTML and TEI Encoding 144; title: Bringing SGML to the Masses: XML 149; title: Issues in Encoding Literary Works 150; title: References 152; title: End Notes 153; title: 7. Visual Resources Collections and Technology 155; title: Paula Hardin; title: Introduction 155; title: Working with Data 156; title: The Power of Databases 157; title: The Internet and World Wide Web 158; title: Digitization Projects 160; title: An Example of a Digital Visual Resources Project 162; title: Technology as a Learning and Growth Tool for VR Professionals 166; title: Conclusion 166; title: 8. An Introduction to Geographic Information Systems 169; title: Farrell W. Jones; title: What Is GIS? 169; title: What Is Not a GIS? 171; title: GIS: A Discipline or Just a Tool? 172; title: The Classifications of GIS 173; title: The Components of a GIS 177; title: Conclusion 188; title: 9. Social Science Data and the Digital Library 191; title: Wendy L. Thomas; title: Introduction 191; title: History of Digital Data 192; title: Issues in Creating a Virtual Data Library 193; title: Preservation 196; title: The Data Documentation Initiative 198; title: Conclusion 201; title: End Notes 202.