Digital Libraries Enhancing Lives

  Copyright Copyright is a set of legislative right that gives permission to people that create content and those that they give permission to use their content( Banerjee and  Reese, 2018 ).Copyright is essential in the functioning of digital libraries. Copyright laws applies both on digital materials and hardcopy materials. Digital materials for digital libraries are sold which license agreement which specify the terms of use. copyright explained. What is protected under copyright? Book Copyright protects artistic work, literary work, musical work, films, recordings and computer programs. Only tangible works are protected by copyright.  Who owns copyright? Teng (2017) , says copyright is owned and granted to the author who created the copyright material.For someone to get a copyright they must have created or written something Importance of copyright Copyright assist in ensuring that creators of work are rewarded for their work and as they get rewarded it encourages them...

 Internet  Internet refers to worldwide network of computers (Rao, 2018) . Each device connected to the internet is identified by TCP/IP protocols  and every device on the internet has its own IP address. Computers on the internet can be given domain name. The IP is the centre of communication on internet. The internet started in the 1960s in an effort to connect computers that were remotely located. There are three different types of network namely centralized, decentralized and distributed networks. Centralized network: computers are connected through a single router. Decentralized network: Many routers connects to many clients. Distributed network: Here all nodes are non- hierarchically connect to each other, they can communicate directly to each other Independent networks are interconnected by the Internet Protocol(IP) addresses. IP addresses are saved or stored as four bytes.  The presence of IP on the internet allow devices on the internet to send a messag...

What metadata is? Gartener (2021)  describes metadata as data about data. It is constructed for a specific purpose that it serves and cannot be universal. Metadata helps in define or describe an object. Three categories of metadata namely descriptive, administrative and structural metadata. For a digital library to operate effectively they should all be present.                                                       Metadata explained. The three Categories of metadata Descriptive metadata:  Amongst the three, descriptive metadata is the most visible. It is also called the finding metadata because it is an information that assist in determining and locating items within a collection in a digital library or repository. Information that describes an item includes authors, subject, tittle, place of publicati...