Opportunities for using Wiki technologies in building digital library models
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this article is to research the open access and encyclopedia structured methodology of building digital libraries. In Azerbaijan Libraries, one of the most challenged topics is organizing digital resources (books, audio-video materials, etc.). Wiki technologies introduce easy, collaborative and open tools opportunities which make it possible to implement in digital library buildings.
Design/methodology/approach
This paper looks at current practices, and the ways of organizing information resources to make them more systematized, open and accessible. These activities are valuable for rural libraries which are smaller and less well funded than main and central libraries in cities.
Findings
The main finding of this article is how to organize digital resource management in the libraries using Wiki ideology.
Originality/value
Wiki technologies determine the ways of building digital library network models which are structurally different from already known models, as well as new directions in forming information society and solving the problems encountered.
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Acknowledgements
The author would like to stress his greatest appreciation for his supervisor and Director of the Institute of Information Technologies, ANAS, Dr Rasim Aliguliyev, for supporting him with ideas that pushed him forward to write this article.
Citation
Chingiz oglu Mammadov, E. (2014), "Opportunities for using Wiki technologies in building digital library models", Library Hi Tech News, Vol. 31 No. 2, pp. 5-8. https://doi.org/10.1108/LHTN-02-2014-0009
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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