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Digital LibrariesWhat is Open Library - answer An initiative of the Internet Archive (home of the
Wayback Machine), and brain child of Brewster Kahle
Open source, open data, and open documentation
Goal - to have "one Web page for every book ever published", to build a catalog that
contains every book and share it freely and openly with the public
Currently contains over 20 million edition records and 1.7 million scanned version of
books (unlike Project Gutenberg, not all books are in digital form)
Web link: http://openlibrary.org/.
What is the International Children's Digital Library - answer Created by an
interdisciplinary research team at the University of Maryland in cooperation with the
Internet Archive, now maintained by the ICDL Foundation
The goal is "to build a collection of books that represent outstanding historical and
contemporary books from throughout the world."
The collection policy stresses inclusion, tolerance, and acceptance of different
countries, peoples, and cultures; target readers aged between 3-13 years old; in the
public domain, and of good quality
Children are involved in the interface design
Website: http://en.childrenslibrary.org/about/collection.shtml
What is the Perseus Project - answerA digital library project of Tufts University that
began in 1985
Mission: "to make the full record of humanity - linguistic sources, physical artifacts,
historical spaces - as intellectually accessible as possible to every human being,
regardless of linguistic or cultural background."
Focuses on three categories of access: human readable information, machine
actionable knowledge, and machine generated knowledge, such as dictionary look-up
Features include automated text indexing
Web URL: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/
What is ibiblio - answer"Home to one of the largest "collections of collections" on the
Internet, ibiblio.org is an online public library with freely available software and
information, for topics such as music, literature, art, history, science, politics, and
cultural studies."
ibiblio.org positions itself as a host and directory for freely available information
For materials to be included, it need to be: value adding to the public and to the
collections; clear of copyright issues; well maintained; non-for-profit; of good quality, etc.
URL: http://www.ibiblio.org
, What is Project Gutenberg - answerStarted in 1971 when Michael Hart was given a
million dollars worth of computer time at Xerox Lab
'The first and largest (currently offers 36,000+) producer of free ebooks', the project's
mission is to encourage the creation and distribution of ebooks.
The Project Gutenberg Philosophy is to make information, books and other materials
available to the general public in forms a vast majority of the computers, programs and
people can easily read, use, quote, and search
Web URL: http://www.gutenberg.org/
What are some Proporties of Traditional Libraries - answerObjects are information
resources
Objects are selected on the basis of quality
Objects are located in a physical place
Objects are organized
Objects are subjected to authority control
Objects are fixed (do not change)
Objects are permanent (do not disappear)
Authorship is an important concept
Access to objects is limited to specific classes of users
Services are offered
Human specialists can be found
There exist well-defined user group
What is a digital Library - answerDigital libraries are collections of digital content and
services selected by a curator for use by a particular user community.
Digital libraries offer direct access to the content of a wide variety of intellectual works,
including text, audio, video, and data; and may offer a variety of services supporting
search, access, and collaboration.
What is a Digital Library(borgman) - answerComputer and information science
community: A system that provides 'a community of users with coherent access to a
large, organised repository of information and knowledge'.
What is a digital library(digital library federation)
Library community (as represented by the Digital Library Federation)- - answer'Digital
Libraries are that provide the resources,
including the specialised staff, to select, structure,
offer intellectual access to, interpret, distribute,
preserve the integrity of, and ensure the persistence
over time of collections of digital works so that they
are readily and economically available for use by a defined
community or a set of communities.'
What are some Characteristics of Digital Libraries? - answerDigital libraries are the
digital face of traditional libraries that include both digital collections and traditional, fixed
media collections.
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