Building digital libraries

"This top-to-bottom resource is the ideal guidebook to keep at your side. Demystifying core technologies and workflows, its chapters walk you step-by-step through needs assessment and planning for a digital repository; acquiring processing, classifying, and describing digital content; storing and managing resources in a digital repository; technologies and standards useful to digital repositories, including XML, the Portland Common Data Model, metadata schema such as Dublin Core, scripting using JSON and REST, linked open data, and automated metadata assignment; and analyzing repository use, planning for the future, migrating to new platforms, and accommodating new types of data" --