Is digital different? : how information creation, capture, preservation and discovery are being transformed

Book 2015

This edited collection brings together global experts on the impact of new technology on information services. Covering a range of key topics around discovery and preservation, this book explores the role of information professionals in a rapidly changing digital landscape that is challenging the very existence of the traditional library. Focusing on the issues surrounding the transition from an analogue to a digital environment, contributors exa...

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ISBN:

9781856048545
1856048543

Description:

xvi, 217 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

What is the same and what is different / Michael Moss
Finding stuff / David Nicholas and David Clark
RDF, the Semantic Web, Jordan, Jordan and Jordan / Norman Gray
Crowdsourcing / Ylva Berglund Prytz
Pathways to integrating technical, legal and economic considerations in the design, development and deployment of trusted IM systems / Scott David and Barbara Endicott-Popovsky
Finding archived records in a digital age / Tim Gollins and Emma Bayne
Security: managing online risk / Barbara Endicott-Popovsky
Rights and the commons: navigating the boundary between public and private knowledge spaces / Gavan McCarthy and Helen Morgan
From the Library of Alexandria to the Google Campus: has the digital changed the way we do research? / David Thomas and Valerie Johnson

Control Number:

1998283

Other Authors:

Dupuis, Marc J., editor
Endicott-Popovsky, Barbara, editor
Moss, Michael S., editor

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