Iranian Journal of Information Processing and Management

Iranian Journal of Information Processing and Management

Status of information resource organization in Iranian digital libraries

Authors
Alireza Isfandyari-Moghaddam
10.35050/JIPM010.2013.002
Abstract
This research aimed to determine the status of information resource organization in Iranian digital libraries. The research method was analytical survey. Researcher-made questionnaire was used to collect data in order to study the status of research population about information resources organization. In fact, 38 Iranian digital libraries were made research population of this research. Findings showed that studied digital library applications have many capabilities to organize information resources. Some of these capabilities are relation between bibliographic records and related records in documentation format, Using Z39.50 in client side, allows entering group of resources, and so on. Moreover, digital libraries have a lot of chaos in organizing information resources. For instance, digital libraries just fill title, author, subject, publisher, year of publication, author (added entity) in more than 70 percent for Farsi book database. This status is not demonstrated for other databases in digital libraries.
Keywords
digital libraries
Organization
Information Resources
Iran
information systems
Applications
Interoperability
digital information resources
Iranian Journal of Information Processing and Management
Volume 29, Issue 1
Winter 2014
Pages 35-59

  • Receive Date 10 December 2022
  • Revise Date 27 May 2023