Underpinning every digital library and digital repository there is a policy framework, which makes the digital library viable without a policy framework a digital library is little more than a container for content. Policy governs how a digital library is instantiated and run. It is therefore a meta-domain which is situated both outside the digital library and any technologies used to deliver i...

This two-part article considers how digital culture has influenced ideas about permanence. It examines the change in collecting practices in one legal deposit library. The author considers how the idea of permanence, understood in cultural heritage terms, influences digital culture, and, thus, digital technology. The first part of the article addresses the concepts associated with permanence, d...

This paper presents a preliminary work in the development and implementation of a collaborative digital library of historical resources for school projects by collaborating partners. The digital library aims to provide an electronic system to help educators as well as students obtain information on local history; collect, store and organize information in digital format; publish and share elect...

Digital library research has developed over the past decade, but little has been done on the identification of evaluation criteria, especially from users' perspectives. This article identifies users' criteria and applies them to the evaluation of existing digital libraries. Forty-eight subjects were instructed to develop and justify a set of essential criteria for the evaluation of digital libr...

Digital Libraries will be one of the main ways to access structured information through the Internet. Information related to resources or objects is known as metadata. Several metadata models have been proposed; however, the model proposed by the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) [1] has demonstrated great utility in digital libraries. The simplicity and generality of DCMI has facilitated ...

This article analyses the challenges and tasks of Digital Library. Focus on the library’s internal IT support management and based on the example of Fudan University, the author gives E-Support concept and divides the IT support architecture of digital library into three levels: the reader service and management platform, the library staff IT service platform and the technician service and mana...

Cost cutting and personnel restructuring are forcing organizations to make difficult decisions on where to spend money. Among the areas hit hard by budget cuts are education and training. Academic, industrial, and governmental institutions are all seeking means to leverage technology to improve the timeliness, efficiency, and standardization of their required training. One way to extend budgets...

Purpose: Examines the needs of digital library stakeholders and how a collaborative digital library might be designed to meet these needs. The collaborative digital library has been conceived to support secondary school students’ information needs in conducting school-based projects. Design/methodology/approach: Uses the Zachman Framework for Enterprise Architecture as the approach to investiga...