As the Internet and the World Wide Web expanded so fast, digital libraries has become a very hot topic. Since 1992 a lot of studies have been done and some achievements have been made. This chapter is a survey of these studies. We first discuss designing digital libraries, including definition of digital libraries, infrastructure requirements for digital libraries, research issues related to di...

Digital libraries are a fast-growing area, and current digital libraries are becoming more complex. From a pilot study conducted on three sample digital libraries, navigation within digital libraries is still not desirable. "Lost in hyperspace" is still a problem in digital libraries. This paper examines design objectives used by designers of these digital libraries, and analyses whether these ...

nowadays, standard seems to be very important and necessary in all aspects of the life including reference services in libraries. this article is to survey the role of standards in electronic reference services and also considers some sample application instructions which are presented in the dupont- university. by the end, the guide for digital reference services which is called ifla is presen...

after passing more than one decade of appearance of digital libraries in iran, they couldn’t meet their real mission, which is responding to audience needs. surely, this problem is affected by potentially and real factors. so this research wants to recognize resistant factors and driving factors by recourse oriented approach, and then to fit them in integrated model.research method which we app...

The Domain and Its Origins This is the third time that digital libraries have been the primary focus of a chapter in the Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) and, not surprisingly, it reflects a third perspective. Five years ago, Fox and Urs (2002) reported on the literature of the digital library largely as an engineering construct and a research domain. A few years earl...

In academic libraries, the digital library world has had a profound impact on staffing. Academic libraries are facing huge pressure on their staffing levels at a time when digital libraries are being introduced. Digital libraries cannot be divorced from ordinary libraries. What skills do traditional librarians need? There is little in the literature on training for staffing for digital librarie...

An Abstract of the document could easily be provided as meta information. Abstracts are provided for many documents. So this is a simple task to perform. area of expertise A unique id for some specialism should be fixated, so a documents area of expertise can be identified by a key provided as meta information. timestamp A date of publication is useful to check whether this is an recent documen...

There has been a recent explosion of interest in digital music libraries. In particular, interactive melody retrieval is a striking example of a search paradigm that differs radically from the standard full-text search. Many different techniques have been proposed for melody matching, but the area lacks standard databases that allow them to be compared on common grounds—and copyright issues hav...