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- English
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How to Build a Digital Library
About this book
How to Build a Digital Library reviews knowledge and tools to construct and maintain a digital library, regardless of the size or purpose. A resource for individuals, agencies, and institutions wishing to put this powerful tool to work in their burgeoning information treasuries.
The Second Edition reflects developments in the field as well as in the Greenstone Digital Library open source software. In Part I, the authors have added an entire new chapter on user groups, user support, collaborative browsing, user contributions, and so on. There is also new material on content-based queries, map-based queries, cross-media queries. There is an increased emphasis placed on multimedia by adding a "digitizing" section to each major media type. A new chapter has also been added on "internationalization," which will address Unicode standards, multi-language interfaces and collections, and issues with non-European languages (Chinese, Hindi, etc.).
Part II, the software tools section, has been completely rewritten to reflect the new developments in Greenstone Digital Library Software, an internationally popular open source software tool with a comprehensive graphical facility for creating and maintaining digital libraries.
- Outlines the history of libraries on both traditional and digital
- Written for both technical and non-technical audiences and covers the entire spectrum of media, including text, images, audio, video, and related XML standards
- Web-enhanced with software documentation, color illustrations, full-text index, source code, and more
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Yes, you can access How to Build a Digital Library by Ian H. Witten,David Bainbridge,David M. Nichols in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Computer Science & Databases. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover image
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Preface
- Chapter 1. Orientation
- Chapter 2. People in digital libraries
- Chapter 3. Presentation
- Chapter 4. Textual documents
- Chapter 5. Multimedia
- Chapter 6. Metadata
- Chapter 7. Interoperability
- Chapter 8. Internationalization
- Chapter 9. Visions
- Chapter 10. Building collections
- Chapter 11. Operating and interoperating
- Chapter 12. Design patterns for advanced user interfaces
- Glossary
- References
- Index