Bibliotecas digitais: uma investigação sobre características e experiências de desenvolvimento

Abstract

The rapid advancement of ICTs has been adding to the avalanche of knowledge, by providing means to make more effective communication of recorded knowledge among men. The principle of digital libraries focuses on the design of an information system able to identify, locate, seek and make available to its users the information they need. The objective of this study was to investigate the development of digital libraries as the systematization of activity providing the knowledge generated and / or maintained by research institutions and / or government, as well as adherence to international standards in order to identify characteristics and trends in their projects to provide care to the diverse needs of users. To this end, availed himself of the analysis of practices, policies and standards, such as: software technologies, metadata standards, funding sources and purposes of creation, in the following digital libraries: Europeana, DART, NDLDT, CDL, BDAV, BIBLIODAR, BDCOL and BDTD and the study of the characteristics inherent in digital libraries, aiming at identifying the resources required for its development. The first projects of digital libraries users considered as mere consumers of digital resources. The project was focused on the digital object. Currently, the digital library should put the user at the center of its development. Issues involving the diversity of user needs coupled with issues of quality and continuity of services are in vogue and can be observed in the use of centralized catalogs, use of a single index, in artifacts available technological developments and research projects in some of libraries analyzed.