Opportunities and challenges faced by digital libraries in the big data era

Construction of network-based academic resources is undergoing rapid development in this big data era, displaying a trend to replace digital libraries. This challenge calls for the construction of digital libraries to have big data related considerations, i.e., from resource construction aspect, we should expand the resource scope, aggrandize the breadth of resource integration, and increase the depth of the resource organization and processing;from technology application aspect, we should attach great importance to the semantic technology, emphasize the application of clustering technology, widely adopt data analysis technology, and elevate the retrieval technology level;from service aspect, we need to enrich services and product categories of digital libraries, and convert the passive, and general service mode to the proactive and personalized mode. The construction of next generation digital libraries must differ from the traditional way. Comprehensive service ideas should be established;comprehensive resource services should be provided;the conventional service mode and transmission form also need to be expanded;even the librarians of digital libraries are required to become data analysts.