Paper Info
Title
Technology and values: lessons from central and eastern Europe
Abstract
Technology does not develop independently of its social context. Rathe r, there is a range of social, cultural and economic factors (in addition to technical factors) that define the parameters for the development and use of technologies. This paper presents a case study of the social shaping of one aspect of digital libraries, the development of national union catalogs (NUC), in four countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). It examines the specific choices and values that are embedded in the design of a NUC, and how these might be transferred to other cultural contexts.
Year
DOI
Venue
2001
10.1145/379437.379477
JCDL
Keywords
Field
DocType
eastern europe,national union catalog,digital library,technical factor,economic factor,specific choice,social context,case study,rathe r,cultural context,information infrastructure
Social environment,Social shaping of technology,Computer science,Knowledge management,Digital library,Multimedia,Information infrastructure
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
1-58113-345-6
2
0.40
References 
Authors
0
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nadia Caidi110617.80