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How to Build a Digital Library
This is the ONLY book you need to develop the knowledge and tools necessary to build and maintain a digital library regardless of size or purpose!
Ian H. Witten (Author), David Bainbridge (Author), David M. Nichols (Author)
9780123748577, Elsevier Science
Paperback, published 9 November 2009
656 pages
23.4 x 19 x 4 cm, 1.09 kg
"This book provides broad coverage of related work in the field. That is handy, since there is a large international community working on DLs."-- Edward A. Fox, Director, Digital Library Research Laboratory, Blacksburg, VA "These chapters (along with the others) are well written and fully illustrated by screen shots and other examples, making the presentation of the technical content very effective.... [T]his is a very worthwhile addition to the literature of digital libraries"-- Thomas D. Wilson, Professor Emeritus at the Department of Information Studies, University of Sheffield, Visiting Professor at Leeds University Business School, Visiting Professor at the University of Boras, Sweden. http://informationr.net/ir/reviews/revs409.html
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.
Part I Building a Digital Library Chapter 1 Orientation: The world of digital libraries Chapter 2 People in digital libraries Chapter 3 Presentation: User interfaces Chapter 4 Textual documents: The raw material Chapter 5 Multimedia: More raw material Chapter 6 Metadata: Elements of organization Chapter 7 Interoperability: Protocols and services Chapter 8 Internationalization: the global challenge Chapter 9 Visions: Future, past, and present PART II GREENSTONE DIGITAL LIBRARY SOFTWARE Chapter 10 Building collections Chapter 11 Operating and interoperating Chapter 12 Design patterns for advanced user interfaces
Subject Areas: Database programming [UMT], Acquisitions & collection development [GLH], Library, archive & information management [GLC]
