Document Type : Research Paper
Authors
1 Associate Professor in Knowledge and Information Science. Department of Knowledge and Information Science, University of Qom, Iran.
2 Dept of Knowledge and Information Science, Faculty of Literature and Human Sciences, University of Qom, Iran
3 MSc in Knowledge and Information Science; Department of Knowledge and Information Science; University of Qom; Iran,
Abstract
This article identifies the use of a variety of standard formats for storing video, text, multimedia and audio resources in the digital collections of 20 selected national libraries around the world. This study is applied, based on descriptive-analytical method. For data collection we used researcher-made questionnaire. After collecting data, a variety of descriptive statistical techniques such as frequency distribution and frequency percentage and Chi-square test were used to analysis the dat. Based on the results, it was found that image sources were used in all studied collections and cultural objects were less popular with a share of 41%, for TIFF image sources (94%); HTML and XML text sources (75%); WAV audio sources (65%) and AVI multimedia sources (65%) were the most common. The research community had the least amount of diversity of use in the field of multimedia resource storage research findings emphasis on the use of EPUB for ease of reading books on e-readers, GP3 was recommended to increase the usability of the mobile version of the digital library, WARC as a special format for web archiving, for long-term protection of digital content of national libraries, because these three The format had the lowest usage in the statistical community.
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