List of Figures
Preface
1. Planning a Digital Repository
	What Is A Digital Repository?
	The Decision to Build a Digital Repository
	Advantages of a Digital Repository
	Selling the Project
	Understanding the Purpose of the Repository
 	Anticipating use patterns
 Image and text processing
 Sample Archival Settings
 Rights management
 Accommodating changing formats and data structures
 Protecting Integrity of Resources
 LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe)
 Disaster Planning and Security
 Managing with Available Resources and Change
 Further Information
 Summary
2. Acquiring, Processing, Classifying, and Describing Digital Content
 Workflow planning
 Collection development
 Acquiring digital content
 Processing and organizing digital content
 Organizing related works and subcollections
 Rights management
 Batch processes
 Ergonomics
 Summary
3. Choosing a Repository Architecture
 Questions to ask before choosing an architecture
 	Required Features
 	Desirable Features
 Frameworks for digital repositories
 Platforms optimized for specific purposes
 Evaluating repository functionality
 Resource identification and ingestion
 Automating management and organization
 Indexing for easy retrieval
 Other storage challenges
 Repository administration
 Summary
4. General Purpose Technologies Useful for Digital Repositories
The changing face of metadata 
XML in libraries? 
Why use XML-based metadata
	XML Is Human-Readable
	XML Offers a Quicker Cataloguing Strategy
	XML Can Represent Multi-formatted and embedded documents
	XML Metadata Becomes ?Smarter?
	XML Is Not Just a Library Standard
	Future of Software Development
Web Services and SOAP?
Sharing your services 
Summary
5. Metadata Formats
	Metadata Primitives
	MARC
	MARC21XML
	Dublin Core
		History
		Strengths
		Challenges
	MODS (Metadata Object Description Schema)
		History
		Strengths
		Challenges
	METS (Metadata Encoding & Transmission Standard)
		History
		METS at a Glance
		Application
			Page Turning Applications
			Importing Digital Objects
			Semantic Web
	Summary
6. Sharing Data: Metadata Harvesting and Distribution
	The Evolving Roles of Libraries
	Metadata Wants to Be Free
	Sharing Metadata
		XSLT
		Metadata Crosswalking
			Crosswalking Challenges
	Open Archives Imitative Protocol for Metadata Havesting (OAI-PMH)
		OAI-PMH Verbs
 OAI-PMH Application
		Facilitating Third-Party Indexing
 Metadata Repurposing
 OSU Electronic Theses Process
	Microformats
		COinS
		UNAPI
	Summary
7. Federated Searching of Repositories 
What is federated searching?
Federated search and digital libraries
Federated Search vs. Traditional Search Engines
Current Research
	Recommender/collaborative filtering
	Deduplication of Results
	Knowledge-Base Management
	Automatic Data Classification
	Ranking Systems
	Need for Speed
 Searching Protocols
	Z39.50
SRU/SRW (Search/Retrieval URL and Search/Retrieval Web Service)
OpenSearch
Linking protocols
OpenURL
DOI (Digital Object Identifiers)
Search Engine Support
Service Registries
	Service
	Agent
	Collection
Evaluating Needs
	Developmental Needs
	User Needs
Summary
8. Access Management
	Copyright Issues
		Copyright as Organizational Issue
		Can We Archive It? Can We Distribute It?
		Long-term Rights Management
	Allowing/Restricting Access
		CONTENTdm
		Dspace
	Control Mechanisms 
		LDAP
 Shibboleth
 OpenID
 Athens
	Monitoring Repository Use and Statistics
		Intellectual Property
		Service Usability
		Statistic Analysis
		Web Spiders/Harvesters
		Item Prefetching
	Summary
9. Planning for the Future
Providing Information that People Need
Libraries? New Roles
Learning from the Past
Adapting to Change
Consolidation and Specialization
Federated Collection Management
Federated Vocabularies
Summary
10. Conclusions
Index
About the Authors