Digital libraries

  • Authors:
  • Edward A. Fox;Ohm Sornil

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • Encyclopedia of Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Many views of digital libraries (DLs) stem from what libraries currently do. Traditional libraries collect, organize, provide access to, and preserve objects in their collections. A library collection may include books, magazines, journals, video and audio media, and maps. The flexibility of digital technology allows it to handle new kinds of objects efficiently. DL collections can include things without direct physical analogs, such as algorithms or real-time data feeds. They also may include digitized representations of what have traditionally appeared largely in museums or archives. With the rise in cost of paper publications and library storage, increasing use of computers, and decreasing budgets, many libraries have to reduce their acquisition of books as well as their journal subscriptions. Documents in electronic form can become more available and widely used because the cost of digital storage and processing is going down (Fox et al., 1995a).