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Katherine Skinner, Martin Halbert's Strategies For Sustaining Digital Libraries PDF

By Katherine Skinner, Martin Halbert

ISBN-10: 0977299414

ISBN-13: 9780977299416

This selection of essays on maintaining electronic libraries is a document of early findings from pioneers who've labored to set up electronic libraries, now not only as experimental tasks, yet as ongoing providers and collections meant to be sustained through the years in methods in step with the long-held practices of print-based libraries. rather in this interval of utmost technological transition, it really is important that courses around the country - and certainly the realm - actively proportion their recommendations, reports, and methods with the intention to start cultivating new ordinary practices. The collective sentiment of the sphere is that we needs to start to transition from a punctuated, project-based mode of advancing leading edge details companies to an ongoing programmatic mode of maintaining electronic libraries for the lengthy haul.

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Understanding the “context” or provenance of digital objects is critical to their long-term usability and significance. For instance, the data management field recognizes the need to document context by applying the concept known as data provenance. Data provenance refers to the “process of tracing and recording the origins of data and its movement between databases. ”8 Scholars and researchers using data, as well as data managers, realize it is critically important to know where certain pieces of data in a database originated when attempting to determine the genuineness of the data and the veracity of research findings.

These revenues are not intended to meet all costs incurred by the technology developing organization but rather to provide one of several necessary revenue streams. All of these sources of funding, from partnerships and other associations to fees for goods and services, must combine to meet the financial expenses and investment needs that organizations incur while developing and sustaining their digital libraries. After outlining the first three aspects of sustainability – organization, technology, and economic – a question remains.

The concept of collections sustainability is crucial to building strong, indispensable digital collections. In fact, many information professionals would recognize the concept as critical to fulfilling the library’s very purpose. 1 illustrates how the components of this model of digital library sustainability – organization, technology, economic, and collections – work together horizontally to connect and overlap with each other, forming a complex of activities that sustain digital library activity.

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