Evaluation of Digital Libraries

This book summarizes information on the research and practice on both sides of the Atlantic and aims to answer the potential questions that both the theoretical and practical areas of digital library evaluation have posed during recent years. Invited experts from library and computer science fields provide a solid grounding on the essential issues that holistically cover the evaluation of these complex information systems. The book presents, systematically, aspects of participating communities, reasons and aims of evaluation, methodologies and metrics, and application paradigms.The book deals with practical and theoretical issues on digital libraries development and evaluation. It will be multi-disciplinary due to its nature incorporating views and perspectives of various contributing fields. Distinguished digital library researchers and practitioners present systematically methods, techniques and practices.