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List of Figures Preface 1. Planning a Digital Repository What Is A Digital Repository? The Decision to Build a Digital Repository Advantages of a Digital Repository Selling the Project Understanding the Purpose of the Repository Anticipating use patterns Image and text processing Sample Archival Settings Rights management Accommodating changing formats and data structures Protecting Integrity of Resources LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe) Disaster Planning and Security Managing with Available Resources and Change Further Information Summary 2. Acquiring, Processing, Classifying, and Describing Digital Content Workflow planning Collection development Acquiring digital content Processing and organizing digital content Organizing related works and subcollections Rights management Batch processes Ergonomics Summary 3. Choosing a Repository Architecture Questions to ask before choosing an architecture Required Features Desirable Features Frameworks for digital repositories Platforms optimized for specific purposes Evaluating repository functionality Resource identification and ingestion Automating management and organization Indexing for easy retrieval Other storage challenges Repository administration Summary 4. General Purpose Technologies Useful for Digital Repositories The changing face of metadata XML in libraries? Why use XML-based metadata XML Is Human-Readable XML Offers a Quicker Cataloguing Strategy XML Can Represent Multi-formatted and embedded documents XML Metadata Becomes ?Smarter? XML Is Not Just a Library Standard Future of Software Development Web Services and SOAP? Sharing your services Summary 5. Metadata Formats Metadata Primitives MARC MARC21XML Dublin Core History Strengths Challenges MODS (Metadata Object Description Schema) History Strengths Challenges METS (Metadata Encoding & Transmission Standard) History METS at a Glance Application Page Turning Applications Importing Digital Objects Semantic Web Summary 6. Sharing Data: Metadata Harvesting and Distribution The Evolving Roles of Libraries Metadata Wants to Be Free Sharing Metadata XSLT Metadata Crosswalking Crosswalking Challenges Open Archives Imitative Protocol for Metadata Havesting (OAI-PMH) OAI-PMH Verbs OAI-PMH Application Facilitating Third-Party Indexing Metadata Repurposing OSU Electronic Theses Process Microformats COinS UNAPI Summary 7. Federated Searching of Repositories What is federated searching? Federated search and digital libraries Federated Search vs. Traditional Search Engines Current Research Recommender/collaborative filtering Deduplication of Results Knowledge-Base Management Automatic Data Classification Ranking Systems Need for Speed Searching Protocols Z39.50 SRU/SRW (Search/Retrieval URL and Search/Retrieval Web Service) OpenSearch Linking protocols OpenURL DOI (Digital Object Identifiers) Search Engine Support Service Registries Service Agent Collection Evaluating Needs Developmental Needs User Needs Summary 8. Access Management Copyright Issues Copyright as Organizational Issue Can We Archive It? Can We Distribute It? Long-term Rights Management Allowing/Restricting Access CONTENTdm Dspace Control Mechanisms LDAP Shibboleth OpenID Athens Monitoring Repository Use and Statistics Intellectual Property Service Usability Statistic Analysis Web Spiders/Harvesters Item Prefetching Summary 9. Planning for the Future Providing Information that People Need Libraries? New Roles Learning from the Past Adapting to Change Consolidation and Specialization Federated Collection Management Federated Vocabularies Summary 10. Conclusions Index About the Authors
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