Collection Maintenance in the Digital Library} booktitle={Proceedings of the Second Annual Conference on the Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (Digital Libraries' 95)

TitleCollection Maintenance in the Digital Library} booktitle={Proceedings of the Second Annual Conference on the Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (Digital Libraries' 95)
Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication1995
AuthorsAckerman, MS, Fielding, RT
Pagination39-48
Date Published06/1995
Keywordscollection, digital library, maintenance, organizational memory, usability, World Wide Web
Abstract

Maintenance will be critical to digital libraries, especially those that promote broad access to diverse, informal materials. If ignored, maintenance issues within the digital library -- especially those relating to its materials -- will threaten its usefulness and even its long-term viability. We perceive the maintenance problem to be both technical and institutional, and this paper considers the maintenance of the digital library as both institution and technology. The paper examines collection maintenance from several vantage points, including software architecture and the type of collection, arguing that digital libraries that contain informal and dynamic material will have substantially greater maintenance problems. The paper ends with an examination of potential technical solutions.

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