Library Science Digital Libraries and Technology 3

Question 1

What is 'DPLA' and what role does it play for US libraries?

Accepted Answer

Digital Public Library of America — a free national portal providing access to millions of digitized items from US libraries, archives, and museums

Answer

The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) is a free, national digital library platform providing public access to millions of digitized items aggregated from US libraries, archives, and museums.

Question 2

What does 'COUNTER' compliance mean for library database vendors?

Accepted Answer

Vendors provide standardized, comparable usage statistics for electronic resources using the COUNTER code of practice

Answer

COUNTER (Counting Online Usage of Networked Electronic Resources) is an international code of practice that sets standards for how vendors measure and report electronic resource usage statistics to libraries.

Question 3

What is 'persistent identifier' (PID) and why does it matter for digital libraries?

Accepted Answer

A durable, stable identifier (like a DOI or ARK) that ensures a digital resource remains findable even if its URL changes

Answer

Persistent identifiers like DOIs, ARKs, or PURLs provide stable, long-term identifiers for digital objects, ensuring they remain citable and findable even if server locations change.

Question 4

What does 'LOCKSS' stand for and how does it support digital preservation?

Accepted Answer

Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe — a distributed digital preservation network where libraries archive copies of licensed content

Answer

LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) is a peer-reviewed digital preservation network developed at Stanford that allows libraries to maintain distributed, redundant copies of electronic content.

Question 5

What is 'semantic web' technology relevant to library cataloging?

Accepted Answer

A web of linked, machine-readable data where information has meaning that computers can process and connect

Answer

The semantic web is a vision for the web where data is structured and linked in machine-readable formats (RDF, OWL) so computers can interpret meaning and relationships — informing linked data in library cataloging.

Library Science Practice Test

Library Science Practice Test

Library Science Digital Libraries and Technology 3