Digital Libraries and Society: New Perspectives on Information and Dissemination
Digital Libraries and Society: New Perspectives on Information and Dissemination
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数字图书馆与社会：信息与传播的新视角
DOI：
10.4018/978-1-59140-441-5.ch011
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2005
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I. Witten
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I. Witten
数字图书馆是大型的、有组织的信息对象集合。设计良好的数字图书馆软件有可能使非专业人员构思、组装、构建和传播新的信息集合。这具有重大的社会意义，因为通过使信息传播民主化，它为信息和娱乐行业中令人不安的商业化活动提供了一种平衡。本文回顾了当今信息环境的趋势，介绍了数字图书馆技术，并探讨了数字图书馆在发展中国家传播人道主义信息的使用，这是一个既创新又具有社会动机的背景。我们将演示当前可用的技术如何使用户能够构建和发布信息集合。传统的公共图书馆是建立在开放获取原则的基础上的，将这一原则扩展到数字图书馆对hci提出了挑战——如果开放获取也扩展到那些创建图书馆馆藏的人，这一挑战就会被放大。
Digital libraries are large, organized collections of information objects. Well-designed digital library software has the potential to enable non-specialist people to conceive, assemble, build, and disseminate new information collections. This has great social import because, by democratizing information dissemination, it provides a counterbalance to disturbing commercialization initiatives in the information and entertainment industries. This article reviews trends in today’s information environment, introduces digital library technology and explores the use of digital libraries for disseminating humanitarian information in developing countries, a context that is both innovative and socially motivated. We demonstrate how currently available technology empowers users to build and publish information collections. Conventional public libraries are founded on the principle of open access, and extending this to digital libraries presents a challenge to HCI—a challenge that is magnified if open access is extended to those who create library collections too.