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. Explores the capabilities of emerging technologies that support sharing electronic resources in a heterogeneous and distributed consortia environment. 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. The Authors: Dr. M. Paul Pandian is Head, Library and Information Resource Centre at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, 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. Readership: The book is aimed at information professionals, knowledge workers and librarians and postgraduate students. Contents: Digital knowledge resources - digital and other electronic information resources, their characteristics, growth and development, and their impact on information access and use; building digital library collections and systems Emerging technologies for sharing electronic resources in a distributed environment - emerging technologies that support sharing of electronic resources in a distributed consortia environment. Interoperability in providing an integrated access and various standards and protocols that makes the interoperability smoother.