Browsing by Author "Parikh, Shreyasi"

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    Digitized Costume Cataloguing
    (INFLIBNET Centre, Ahmedabad, 2004-02) Parikh, Shreyasi
    This paper describes the development of a catalogue of a digitized collection of costumes. By evaluating and analyzing the collection and evaluate how well existing metadata formats can be applied to a costume collection. The desired metadata elements shown here, selected from the existing Metadata elements and try to fit the Costume data into it. Further it can be researched by taking selected samples and actual metadata treatments to be created for these selected samples using (1) American Cataloguing Rules (AACR in) use with USMARC formats (2) the Dublin Core set of Elements , and (3) the Visual Resources Association (VRA) Core Categories for Visual Resources. Comparison and analysis of the formats will be resulted in the selection with additional metadata elements, if require.
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    Managing the Digital Library in the Changing Environment
    (INFLIBNET Centre, Ahmedabad, 2004-02) Parikh, Shreyasi; Pandya, Shweta
    Recently the idea of the digital library has moved to the forefront of discussion and research. Digital libraries are those libraries, which have number of machine-readable publications and facilities for remote access to several databases. Their aim is to provide instant access to digitized information and consists of variety of information sources-paper to paperless forms including multimedia. The purpose of this paper is to describe how the information professionals can manage the digital library in the changing environment. It describes how an integrated approach of information technology, infrastructure and human resource management is useful in supporting the fruitful utilization of digital library by the users and enhances their satisfaction. Finally, it highlights the issues of ethical concerns in the digital environment.