DocumentCode
3524946
Title
Sustainability issues and activities for the NSDL
Author
McArthur, David J. ; Giersch, Sarah ; Burrows, Howard
Author_Institution
Comput. Sci. Dept., North Carolina Univ., Wilmington, NC, USA
fYear
2003
fDate
27-31 May 2003
Firstpage
395
Abstract
We will review the work on sustainability of digital libraries in the context of the NSF-supported National Science Digital Library (NSDL) program. Applied to digital libraries, sustainability is a broad term, referring to everything from technical issues about the digital preservation of materials, to the social questions surrounding the long-term accessibility of resources to the public at large.
Keywords
Internet; digital libraries; educational computing; electronic publishing; information resources; Internet; NSF-supported NSDL program; National Science Digital Library; digital library sustainability; digital material preservation; educational publisher; resource accessibility; Availability; Computer science; Costs; Educational institutions; Investments; Large-scale systems; Licenses; Publishing; Software libraries; Stability;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Digital Libraries, 2003. Proceedings. 2003 Joint Conference on
Print_ISBN
0-7695-1939-3
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/JCDL.2003.1204914
Filename
1204914
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