Archivos de la categoría ‘Edición Digital’

CiteULike & Google Books

Posted: diciembre 23, 2009 in Edición Digital

GOOGLE BOOKS Google Books is  service which mainly indexes the information we get from thousands of printed books, in order to offer the user the chance to find any piece of information they need from them. In order to do that, Google has developed their own technology in order to scan every book to, afterwards, [...]

Markup Language

Posted: diciembre 10, 2009 in Edición Digital

Arkup language was created, in their very beginning, as languages formed by a group of format-codes which text processing machines introduce in texts in order to direct the proccess of impression thanks to an already programmable printer. Markup language or language of marks is a way in which we can codify a document that, with [...]

Digital Libraries

Posted: octubre 15, 2009 in ED, Edición Digital

The British Library & The Darlington Digital Library The British Library The British Library is the National library of the United Kingdom and nowadays one of the biggest libraries in the world. It possesses aroun 150 million articles and each year about 3 million more books are added to the initial amount. The British Library [...]

1.What’s an E-book? An electronic book (also known as an e-book) us an electronic or digital version of a book. It is also called this way the dispositive which is used to read this kind of books. The name is someway ambiguous, since it refers to an individual work in digital format but also to [...]

El Siglo XVIII

Posted: octubre 5, 2009 in Edición Digital

The French Encyclopedia It was created almost in a anecdotic way. This 17-volume encyclopedia was edited in Paris, and its main goal was to spread the ideas of French Illustration. This encyclopedia tried its best to compilate everything that was known so far, using as a method of compilation the research that had been done [...]

Tim Berners-Lee

Posted: septiembre 29, 2009 in Edición Digital

Sir Timothy “Tim” Berners-Lee, OM, KBE (TimBL or TBL) was born 8th june 1955 in London, United Kingdom, he graduated in Physics in 1976 at the Queen’s College of Oxford’s University. He is considered to be the father of what we call “WEB”. As he thought it was necessary to share and distribute the information [...]