Digital libraries: A conceptual framework

Authors
Rowlands, I Bawden, D
Citation
I. Rowlands et D. Bawden, Digital libraries: A conceptual framework, LIBRI, 49(4), 1999, pp. 192-202
Citations number
51
Categorie Soggetti
Library & Information Science
Journal title
LIBRI
ISSN journal
00242667 → ACNP
Volume
49
Issue
4
Year of publication
1999
Pages
192 - 202
Database
ISI
SICI code
0024-2667(199912)49:4<192:DLACF>2.0.ZU;2-2
Abstract
This article presents an approach to a conceptual framework for understandi ng the concept of digital libraries. A typology of digital library research is described, based on Yates' model of information work, and comprising th ree inter-linked domains: informational, technological and social. A concep tual framework for digital libraries, or complex Libraries in Walt Crawford 's (1999) terminology, is developed on this basis.