A landmark textbook on digital libraries for LIS students, educators and practising
information professionals throughout the world. Exploring Digital Libraries is a highly …

This article takes a broad view of the evolution of collecting behaviors in a network
environment and suggests some future directions based on various simple models. The …

Besser, H.(2000) Digital longevity. In Handbook for digital projects: a management tool for
preservation and access, ed. M. Sitts. Andover, Mass.: Northeast Document Conservation …

While we still have letters, manuscripts and other physical documents from the past
centuries, we are in danger of losing digital documents created in the last decade. Literary …

The promise and challenge of information management in the humanities has garnered a
great deal of attention and interest (Bulger et al.,; Freiman et al.,; Trace & Karadkar,; …

This paper assesses the data management of digitized Indigenous knowledge systems (IKS)
in IKS repositories in South Africa. The study adopted a qualitative research method. The …

The rapid pace with which technology is changing continues to pose a perpetual threat to
digital preservation. Although initiatives in digital preservation in Europe, North America …

In a pilot survey we examined the diffusion of open data and crowdsourcing practices
among heritage institutions in Switzerland. The results suggest that so far, only very few …

This paper presents the results of a study to investigate how archives can connect their
collections to related data sources through the use of Semantic Web technologies …

Widespread digitization of cultural heritage materials and access to digital tools have altered
the scholarly research landscape. For historian scholars who use archival sources to …