What do you mean by Digital Library? Explain the characteristics features of a Digital Library.
The Digital Library is a later stage of electronic library. When an electronic library started procuring E-journal and other similar kind of publications and access is over the Web,then it is termed as "Digital Library ". Digital library has been defined by a UCLANSF social aspects of digital libraries workshop as "Digital libraries are a set of electronic resources and associated technical capabilities for creating, searching and using information". In digital library,high speed optical fibers are used for LAN and the access is over the WAN and it provides a wide range of internet based services i.e. audio and video conferencing etc. the collection of a Digital library is in digital form and is usually served over the World Wide Web. Characteristics of digital library: Cleveland (1998) describes some characteristics of digital libraries that have been ...