| Title: | VIRTUAL DIGITAL LIBRARIES: AN ADVANCED METHODS AND TECHNOLOGIES |
| DOI No: | 10.1142/9781860948534_0028 |
| Source: | INNOVATIVE APPLICATIONS OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FOR THE DEVELOPING WORLD (pp 197-198)
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| Author(s): | R. P. KUMAR
B.B. Dikshit Librar, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi 110029, India
S. K. MEYER
Department of Computer Facility, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi 110029, India
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| Abstract: | Background: The development Virtual Digital Libraries of an open source system that functions as a repository for the digital research and educational material produced by members of a research university or organization. Running such an institutionally based, multidisciplinary repository is increasingly seen as a natural role for the libraries and archives of research and teaching organizations. As their constituents produce increasing amounts of original material in digital formats – much of which is never published by traditional means – the repository becomes vital to protect the significant assets of the institution and its faculty. In this paper it has been discussed the functionality and design, and its approach to various problems in digital library and archives design. The second part discusses the implementation of DSpace at MIT, plans for federating the system, and issues of sustainability.
Problem: It is an attempt to address a problem that faculty/researcher have been expressing to the Libraries for the past few years. As faculty and other researchers develop research materials and scholarly publications in increasingly complex digital formats, there is a need to collect, preserve, index and distribute them: a time-consuming and expensive chore for individual faculty and their departments, labs, and centers to manage themselves.
Method: It provides a way to manage these research materials and publications in a professionally maintained repository to give them greater visibility and accessibility over time. Names are a vital building block for the digital library. Names are needed to identify digital objects, to register intellectual property in digital objects, and to record changes of ownership. They are required for citations, for information retrieval, and are used for links between objects. |
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