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http://dx.doi.org/10.3743/KOSIM.2011.28.2.037

Interdisciplinary Collaborations in the Domain of Digital Libraries  

Chung, Eun-Kyung (Department of Library and Information Science, Ewha Womans University)
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Journal of the Korean Society for information Management / v.28, no.2, 2011 , pp. 37-51 More about this Journal
Abstract
The domain of digital libraries is one of interdisciplinary fields since it contains various aspects of digital libraries. The main findings of digital library interdisciplinarity have been discussed in terms of contents, management and infrastructural technologies within the field of library and information science. The purpose of this study is to identify and widen the interdisciplinary structure of digital library domain by analyzing the collaborations from different disciplines. With 1,394 research articles of digital libraries from 1997 to 2010, the analysis of collaborations of authors from various disciplines was conducted. The results identified that three subject areas of authors such as Information science and library science, Computer science and Engineering were found as the centers to collaborate with various disciplines. In addition, sub-domains of digital library were recognized in terms of core digital library area, natural science area, medical related area and biology and medical area. The findings of this study depict the domain of digital libraries as a variety of subject areas since digital library domain is characterized with both research and practices.
Keywords
digital libraries; co-author analysis; interdisciplinarity; domain analysis;
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