Library category: 2034 books
Virtual Research Environments
From Portals to Science Gateways
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2009
Virtual Research Environments examines making Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) usable by researchers working to solve “grand challenge problems in many disciplines from social science to particle physics. It is driven by research the authors have carried out to evaluate researchers’...
by Svetla Baykoucheva
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
Innovative technologies are changing the way research is performed, preserved, and communicated. Managing Scientific Information and Research Data explores how these technologies are used and provides detailed analysis of the approaches and tools developed to manage scientific information and data....
Collective Action 2.0
The Impact of Social Media on Collective Action
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Collective Action 2.0 explores the issues related to information and communication technologies (ICTs) in detail, providing a balanced insight into how ICTs leverage and interact with collective action, which will have an impact on the current discourse. Recent events in different authoritarian regimes,...
Stepping Away from the Silos
Strategic Collaboration in Digitisation
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
For over twenty years, digitisation has been a core element of the modern information landscape. The digital lifecycle is now well defined, and standards and good practice have been developed for most of its key stages. There remains, however, a widespread lack of coordination of digitisation initiatives,...
Digital Asset Ecosystems
Rethinking crowds and clouds
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
Digital asset management is undergoing a fundamental transformation. Near universal availability of high-quality web-based assets makes it important to pay attention to the new world of digital ecosystems and what it means for managing, using and publishing digital assets. The Ecosystem of Digital...
BiblioTech
Why Libraries Matter More Than Ever in the Age of Google
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Libraries today are more important than ever. More than just book repositories, libraries can become bulwarks against some of the most crucial challenges of our age: unequal access to education, jobs, and information.
In BiblioTech, educator and technology expert John Palfrey argues that anyone...
Foundations of Museum Studies: Evolving Systems of Knowledge
Evolving Systems of Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
This broad introduction to museums benefits all educators who teach introductory museum studies, addressing the discipline from a holistic, dynamic, and document-centered perspective.
• Frames museum studies within an information context and specifically addresses the interests and concerns...
The Art of Teaching Online
How to Start and How to Succeed as an Online Instructor
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
The Art of Teaching Online: How to Start and How to Succeed as an Online Instructor focuses on professionals who are not teachers, but who wish to enter the online education field as instructors in their disciplines. This book focuses mainly on how potential online instructors can create and maintain...
Dynamic Fair Dealing
Creating Canadian Culture Online
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Dynamic Fair Dealing argues that only a dynamic, flexible, and equitable approach to cultural ownership can accommodate the astonishing range of ways that we create, circulate, manage, attribute, and make use of digital cultural objects.
The Canadian legal tradition strives to balance the rights...
Museums and Public Value
Creating Sustainable Futures
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Public Value speaks to our time - to the role that museums can play in creating civil societies, to the challenges involved in using limited assets strategically, to the demand for results that make a difference and to the imperative that we build the kind of engagement that sustains our futures....
by Proscovia Svärd
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2017
This book identifies key factors necessary for a well-functioning information infrastructure and explores how information culture impacts the management of public information, stressing the need for a proactive and holistic information management approach amidst e-Government development.
In...
by Gino Roncaglia
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Questo volume, alla sua seconda edizione, la prima in cartaceo, riporta e commenta i dati di un indagine Nielsen commissionata dal Centro per il Libro e la Lettura, oltre ad arrichirsi di alcune appendici sul futuro dei libri di testo, degli ebook in biblioteca (il digital lending) e sulle problematiche...
Government Information Management in the 21st Century
International Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Government Information Management in the 21st Century provides librarians, information professionals, and government information policy leaders with a comprehensive and authoritative state-of-the-art review of current issues in government information management with a global perspective. The widespread...
Building Trustworthy Digital Repositories
Theory and Implementation
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Building Trustworthy Digital Repositories: Theory and Implementation combines information on both theory and practice related to creating trustworthy repositories for records into one up-to-date source.
This book will bring all the credible theories into one place where they will be summarized,...