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Chapter Two History and Vision of Digital Libraries
Chapter Two History and Vision of Digital Libraries
Chapter Two History and Vision of Digital Libraries
Digital Libraries
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History of DL
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Early stages of DL
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Developing Period
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Vision of Digital Library
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Digital libraries initiative - phase II
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Cont’d…
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Cont’d …
DLI phase II is concerned with developing concepts,
technologies and tools to gain use of the fuller knowledge and
meaning inherent in digital collections. This means:
for users:- intelligent search, retrieval, organization and
interfaces tools.
for content and collection providers :- new information types,
structures, document encoding and meta data to develop
context.
for system builders :- designing HW and SW capable of
interpreting and implementing users' requests to provide the
user with the structured information required.
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DLI phase II cont’d..
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National Science Digital Library (NSDL) Projects
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Current Development of DL
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Summary
Why Digitize?
To Provide better access
to support collection management and
preservation
To Preserve fragile materials
To Support educational and research activities
To Fulfill strategic mission and goals of institution