Neubert, a Digital Projects Coordinator at the Library of Congress, assembles 11 essays discussing issues in Slavic digital librarianship, such as the digital conversion of the Cyrillic alphabet, copyright, text encoding, user testing, electronic texts, and digital reference. Digital projects are described, including The Fundamental Digital Library of Russian Literature and Folklore, the Comintern archives, and a spatial database for large Russian cities. Contributors, from around the world, are librarians, area specialists, in the field of Slavic studies, or in other fields. The volume is aimed at librarians, archivists, Slavic studies scholars, and library and information science educators and students. It has been co-published simultaneously as Slavic and East European Information Resources, vol. 6, nos. 2/3, 2005. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Get an inside view of producing digital information projects
Digital technology has provided great opportunities as well as colossal challenges for information professionals at Slavic libraries, collections, and archives. Virtual Slavica: Digital Libraries, Digital Archives presents leading information experts exploring the monumental task of converting Slavic manuscripts and books for presentation in the digital realm. Readers get a clear inside view of how to conquer the various challenges that arise within digital library and archive projects through detailed descriptions of specific projects discussed in easy-to-understand language.
Slavic studies present innate problems when attempts are made to allow access to the material over the Internet. The Cyrillic alphabet is just one of the huge stumbling blocks standing in the way of universal access to this important material. Virtual Slavica: Digital Libraries, Digital Archives provides practical strategies for anyone looking for answers to problems within their own virtual information project. Copyright issues, digital reference, text encoding, online translation, presentation issues, and use of grant funding are some the topics comprehensively discussed to give information professionals clear solutions to the issues they may be facing. The book is carefully referenced.
Virtual Slavica: Digital Libraries, Digital Archives examines:
- the persistence of multiple standards for digitally handling the Cyrillic alphabet
- presenting the Comintern archives online
- FEB-web its structure, the creation of digital editions, its plans for the future
- copyright issues in the twenty-first century
- Meeting of Frontiers the reorganization of the text content of the international collaborative digital library project at the Library of Congress
- standardized encoding
- practical and theoretical programming issues
- the unforeseen difficulties and solutions to complete a grant-funded digital Slavic project
- and more
Virtual Slavica: Digital Libraries, Digital Archives is of keen interest to librarians, archivists, Slavic studies academics, and library and information science educators and students.
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