Abstract
The digital revolution is having effects on the development, organization, and distribution of information and artefact repositories such as libraries, and the way in which physical and digital aspects are mediated to users. It was clear from the early involvement of the National Science Foundation (NSF), Defense Advanced Research projects Agency (DARPA) and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in the USA that any developments in this area were going to be potentially significant for the future of large scale information retrieval of digital objects such as text, images, audio, and video. A review of library and related provision in higher education in the UK was commissioned in 1992 and reported on at the end of 1993. Many academic institutions and organizations have developed their own Institutional Repositories in order to store their own content. The advantages of digital libraries are summarized. The Google Digitization Project to digitize the world’s information is reviewed and evaluated. Recent significant difficulties with the Project are summarized. There also current issues in ensuring digital archives remain accessible to users into the long term future and are not rendered obsolete by future shifts in technology. The changes that digital media and digital convergence are bringing about are substantial and are also likely to be long-lasting.
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Earnshaw, R. (2017). Digital Libraries. In: State of the Art in Digital Media and Applications. SpringerBriefs in Computer Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61409-0_5
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