Automation of Library & Information Processes Books

The ground - both in terms of technological advance and in the sophistication of analyses of technology - has shifted. At the same time, librarianship as a field has adopted a more skeptical perspective; and libraries are feeling market pressure to adopt and use new innovations.

Spanish-language edition of Introduction to Metadata . Metadata is data about data . The relationship between a data object and its metadata is like that between a book and its library catalogue record. Metadata insures that information can be easily accessed in a networked environment.

Including exercises, this book presents discussions of XML security, RDF security, and secure information integration. It provides coverage of privacy for the semantic web, secure web services, as well as dependability issues such as real-time processing, faulty tolerance, and integrity for the semantic web.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the joint 6th International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2007, and the 2nd Asian Semantic Web Conference, ASWC 2007, held in Busan, Korea, in November 2007. The 50 revised full academic papers and 12 revised application papers presented together with 5 Semantic Web Challenge papers and 12 selected doctoral consortium articles were carefully ...

This book provides a complete overview of the digitisation process and how to set up a digitisation centre, from the earliest stages of development to putting collections online. Topics include essential steps and standards, acquiring the essentials, locating training and obtaining funding.

Provided in this book is an overview of the digitisation process and how to set up a digitisation center.

The convergence of IT, telecommunications, and media is bringing about a revolution in the way information is collected, stored and accessed. There are 3 reasons why this is happening - reducing cost, increasing quality, and increasing bandwidth. This volume presents key aspects in this field in the areas of technology and information sciences.

Recommends practical approaches to the purification, indexing, and mining of textual information. This book addresses document identification, clustering and categorizing documents, cleaning text, and visualizing semantic models of text.

Serves as a useful tool for online system designers who are grappling with developing new systems or refining existing ones. This work describes subject analysis and subject searching in online catalogs, including the limitations of retrieval, and demonstrates how such limitations can be overcome through system design and programming.

This book discusses the topic of 'weblogs and libraries' from two main perspectives: weblogs as sources of information for libraries and librarians; and weblogs as tools that libraries can use to promote their services and to provide a means of communication with their clients.

Examines successfully planned and implemented Learning Commons at different academic institutions around the world. This work features case studies that provide a methodology for effective planning, implementation and assessment. It offers information on how to collaborate with campus stakeholders, how to do the budgeting, staffing, and more.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 30th annual European Conference on Information Retrieval Research, ECIR 2008, held in Glasgow, UK, in March/April 2008. The 33 revised full papers and 19 revised short papers presented together with the abstracts of 3 invited lectures and 32 poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 139 full article submissions. The papers are ..

Provides articles on the technical, organizational and policy aspects of library automation, emphasizing the information/policy needed by librarians for informed decisions on automated systems and network services, to maximize the positive effects of these technologies on library organizations.

Dealing with computer-based retrieval systems, this book covers the nature of information, how it is organized for use by a computer, how search functions are carried out, and the theory underlying these functions. It also discusses the interaction between user and system and how retrieved items, users, and complete systems are evaluated.

This book brings together key ideas about record-keeping in a multi-media environment.

Brings together key ideas about record keeping in a multi-media environment.

In this work, the authors demonstrate how to create quality in databases. They offer advice on designing content with consideration of domain of coverage, accessibility, currency, critical mass, and other criteria; and constructing databases with retrievability of useful information in mind.

Provides an introduction to the cultural, social and political impact of digital information and digital resources. This book is arranged into three sections: culture, society, and the individual. It explores key elements of the social, cultural and political impact of digital information.

Provides an introduction to critical and theoretical perspectives on digital information. This book outlines the origins of information management in nineteenth-century humanism, and the adoption of scientific perspectives in the documentation and information science movements.

Offers the knowledge and tools needed to construct and maintain a digital library. This work sketches the history of libraries - both traditional and digital - and their impact on various practices and directions. It includes coverage of the practical standards used to represent and store information digitally.