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Emerging Technologies for Knowledge Resource Management

M Pandian, Institute of Mathematical Sciences and C R Karisiddappa, Karnatak University, India

Chandos Information Professional Series

 - makes the basic concepts of emerging technologies clear and their applications in knowledge resource management
 - examines the capabilities of emerging technologies for sharing electronic resources in a heterogeneous environment
 - reviews existing portal models available in commercial, research and development and open source environment
 - design and development of framework for a unified portal model for sharing electronic resources in distributed environment incorporating the potentials of emerging technologies in a cost effective manner
 - step by step guidelines for system analysis, requirements analysis – users and resources and system design

Emerging Technologies for Knowledge Resource Management examines various factors that contribute to an enabled environment for optimum utilisation of information resources. These include the digital form of information resources, which are inherently sharable, consortia as a concept to bring people and materials together and unified portals as technology to bring together disparate and heterogeneous resources for sharing and access. The book provides a step-by-step guideline for system analysis and requirements analysis. The book also provides reviews of existing portal models for sharing resources and identifies the gap in meeting the objectives. The book provides a framework for a cost effective unified portal model to share the electronic information resources available in the participating libraries in a distributed digital environment.

Readership: Information professionals, knowledge workers and librarians and postgraduate students.

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About the authors

Dr M Paul Pandian is Head, Library and Information Resource Centre at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India. He was earlier the Head, Library and Information Resource Centre at the Indian Institute of Management, Indore, India and Scientist at INFLIBNET, UGC, India. Dr C R Karisiddappa is President, Indian Association of Teachers of Library and Information Science (IATLIS), Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences and Professor, Department of Library and Information Science, Karnatak University, Dharwad, India. He was Convenor-UGC Subject Panel, Covenor-UGC Curriculum Development Committee. He was awarded IATLIS Motiwale National Best Teacher in Library and Information Science.

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Contents

Introduction
 - Introduction
 - Enabling technologies
 - Conclusion

Digital knowledge resources
 - Introduction
 - Definition of the digital library
 - History, trends and growth
 - Characteristics of the digital library
 - Digital library development
 - The digital library and technology
 - The digital library environment
 - The digital library access system
 - The digital library and people
 - The digital library and collaboration
 - The digital library and economics
 - Digital library issues
 - Conclusion

Emerging technologies for sharing digital resources in a distributed environment
 - Introduction
 - Interoperability and unified access
 - Emerging technologies
 - User authentication and authorization
 - Resource description and organization
 - Resource discovery and use
 - Conclusion

Unified portal models for sharing digital information resources: a review
 - Introduction
 - Towards integrated solutions
 - The portal as a unified interface for organizing and sharing
 - digital information resources
 - Unified portal solutions (models)
 - Discussion
 - Conclusion

The unified portal system: a design
 - Introduction
 - Scope of the UPS
 - Functional requirement analysis of the UPS
 - UPS architecture
 - UPS system analysis and design
 - Discussion
 - Conclusion

Conclusion