Chapter 6

Digital library management systems

Abstract

This chapter presents both theoretical and practical perspectives on developing and selecting digital library management systems (DLMS). It presents research on architectural models of digital library systems and discusses functionality, interoperability, and other design requirements. Furthermore, it provides an overview of the current landscape of DLMS. It discusses the open source versus proprietary systems dilemma and reviews a number of DLMS. currently used in practice. Finally, it presents research on developing evaluation criteria and selecting open source DLMS.

Keywords

digital library management systems
digital collections management software
digital assets management systems
digital ...

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