Virtual Slavica; digital libraries, digital archives.9780789026866 Virtual Slavica; digital libraries, digital archives. Ed. by Michael Neubert Sir Michael Jon Neubert (born September 3, 1933) was Conservative MP for Romford from 1974 to 1997. His loss in the election that year was considered something of surprise. . Haworth Pr. 2005 231 pages $22.95 Paperback DJK DJK Deutsche Jugendkraft (German Youth Association) 7 Neubert, a Digital Projects Coordinator at the Library of Congress, assembles 11 essays discussing issues in Slavic digital librarianship, such as the digital conversion of the Cyrillic alphabet Cyrillic alphabet Alphabet used for Russian, Serbian (see Serbo-Croatian language), Bulgarian and Macedonian, Belarusian, Ukrainian, and many non-Slavic languages of the former Soviet Union, as well as Khalka Mongolian (see Mongolian language). , copyright, text encoding, user testing, electronic texts, and digital reference. Digital projects are described, including The Fundamental Digital Library of Russian Literature Russian literature, literary works mainly produced in the historic area of Russia, written in its earliest days in Church Slavonic and after the 17th cent. in the Russian language. and Folklore, the Comintern archives, and a spatial database A spatial database is a database that is optimized to store and query data related to objects in space, including points, lines and polygons. While typical databases can understand various numeric and character types of data, additional functionality needs to be added for databases for large Russian cities. Contributors, from around the world, are librarians, area specialists, in the field of Slavic studies, or in other fields. The volume is aimed at librarians, archivists, Slavic studies scholars, and library and information science educators and students. It has been co-published simultaneously as Slavic and East European Information Resources, vol. 6, nos. 2/3, 2005. ([c]20062005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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