Digital Library Service

A Digital Library Service is a library service for digital information resources (such as digital documents).

• AKA: Digital Archive.
• Context:
  • It can (typically) be an Online Service.
  • It is a Document-intensive Application.
  • It can range from being a Public Digital Library to being a Private Digital Library.
  • It can range from being a Digital Document Library to being a Digital Reference Library.
  • It can offer advanced search functionality, metadata tagging, and digital rights management to facilitate easy discovery and secure access to resources.
  • It can support interoperability standards to ensure compatibility and integration with other digital libraries and information systems.
  • It can provide tools for digital preservation to ensure long-term accessibility of digital content.
  • ...
• Example(s):
  • Project Gutenberg (https://www.gutenberg.org/), offering over 60,000 free ebooks, primarily of classical literature and historical works.
  • Internet Archive (https://archive.org/), providing free access to a massive collection of digitized materials, including websites, music, moving images, and millions of public-domain books.
  • Google Books Library Project (https://books.google.com/), aiming to digitize the world's books and make them more accessible and searchable.
  • JSTOR (https://www.jstor.org/), providing access to thousands of academic journals, books, and primary sources in various disciplines.
  • Europeana (https://www.europeana.eu/), offering access to millions of artworks, artifacts, books, videos, and sounds from across Europe.
  • ...
  • Digital Document Library, such as:
    • ACM Digital Library.
    • IEEE Xplore DL.
    • Project Gutenberg (https://www.gutenberg.org/), offering over 60,000 free ebooks, primarily of classical literature and historical works.
    • Internet Archive (https://archive.org/), providing free access to a massive collection of digitized materials, including websites, music, moving images, and millions of public-domain books.
  • ...
• Counter-Example(s):
  • A Physical Library Service.
  • EZProxy Service (a URL-Rewriting Service).
• See: Corpus, E-Library, Virtual Library, Library and Information Science Discipline, Metadata, Digital Rights Management, Digital Preservation.

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References

2024

• (Wikipedia, 2024) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_library Retrieved:2024-3-2.
  • A digital library, also called an online library, an internet library, a digital repository, a library without walls, or a digital collection, is an online database of digital objects that can include text, still images, audio, video, digital documents, or other digital media formats or a library accessible through the internet. Objects can consist of digitized content like print or photographs, as well as originally produced digital content like word processor files or social media posts. In addition to storing content, digital libraries provide means for organizing, searching, and retrieving the content contained in the collection. Digital libraries can vary immensely in size and scope, and can be maintained by individuals or organizations. The digital content may be stored locally, or accessed remotely via computer networks. These information retrieval systems are able to exchange information with each other through interoperability and sustainability.
  • NOTE:
    • It is an online database or collection of digital objects including text, images, audio, video, and other digital media formats, accessible through the internet.
    • It can comprise digitized content such as printed material and photographs, as well as originally produced digital content like word processor files and social media posts.
    • It offers means for organizing, searching, and retrieving the content within the collection, catering to a wide range of size and scope and can be maintained by both individuals and organizations.
    • It may store digital content locally or access it remotely via computer networks, with systems designed for interoperability and sustainability to exchange information.
    • It has evolved from early concepts and visions of making knowledge accessible to everyone globally, with significant contributions from pioneers like Paul Otlet, Henri La Fontaine, Vannevar Bush, and J.C.R. Licklider.
    • It utilizes various software and technologies for digital preservation, copyright management, metadata creation, and information retrieval to enhance accessibility and usability.
    • It faces challenges such as copyright issues, digital preservation, and the need for efficient metadata and technology infrastructure, but continues to evolve with advancements in digital technologies and practices.

2014

• (Fox & Torres, 2014) ⇒ Edward A. Fox, and Ricardo da Silva Torres (editors). (2014). “Digital Library Technologies: Complex Objects, Annotation, Ontologies, Classification, Extraction, and Security.” In: Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services Journal, March 2014. [http://dx.doi.org/

2014

• (Fox & Torres, 2014) ⇒ Edward A. Fox, and Ricardo da Silva Torres (editors). (2014). “Digital Library Technologies: Complex Objects, Annotation, Ontologies, Classification, Extraction, and Security.” In: Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services Journal, March 2014.In: Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services Journal, March 2014. doi:10.2200/S00566ED1V01Y201401ICR033

2011

• (Wikipedia, 2011) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_library
  • A digital library is a library in which collections are stored in digital formats (as opposed to print, microform, or other media) and accessible by computers. The digital content may be stored locally, or accessed remotely via computer networks. ...

2011

• (Candela et al., 2011) ⇒ L. Candela, G. Athanasopoulos, D. Castelli, K. El Raheb, P. Innocenti, Y. Ioannidis, A. Katifori, A. Nika, G. Vullo, S. Ross: The Digital Library Reference Model. April 2011 (PDF)

2009

• (Renear, 2009) ⇒ Allen H. Renear http://www.lis.illinois.edu/oc/people/bio.html?id=renear
  • Research Interests: How digital documents function as knowledge representation systems: developing models of how documents organize and structure knowledge and then exploring how these models can improve document-intensive applications such as digital libraries, scientific collaboration systems, publishing systems, educational technology, and humanities textbases.

2008

• L. Candela et al. (2008). “The DELOS Digital Library Reference Model - Foundations for Digital Libraries, version 0.98.".

2002

• (Greenstein & Thorin, 2002) ⇒ Daniel I. Greenstein, and Suzanne Elizabeth Thorin. (2002). “The Digital Library: A Biography." Digital Library Federation. ISBN:1933645180.

2000

• (Krichel & Gu Xh, 2000) ⇒ Thomas Krichel, and Guildford Gu Xh. (2000). “Working towards an Open Library for Economics: The RePEc project.” In: PEAK. The Economics and Usage of Digital Library Collections, Ann Arbor.

1999

• (Fox, 1999) ⇒ Edward A. Fox. (1999). “The Digital Libraries Initiative - Update and Discussion.” In: Bulletin of the America Society of Information Science, 26(1).

1988

• (Kahn & Cerf, 1988) ⇒ R. E. Kahn, and V. G. Cerf. (1988). “The Digital Library Project Volume I: The World of Knowbots, (DRAFT): An Open Architecture For a Digital Library System and a Plan For Its Development./" Reston, VA: Corporation for National Research Initiatives.

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