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Second Edition
By
Ian Witten, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand.
David Bainbridge
David Nichols
Description
How to Build a Digital Library is the only book that offers all the knowledge and tools needed to construct and
maintain a digital library, regardless of the size or purpose. It is the perfectly self-contained resource for individuals, agencies,
and institutions wishing to put this powerful tool to work in their burgeoning information treasuries. The Second Edition reflects new
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. As with the First Edition, a web site, implemented
as a digital library, will accompany the book and provide access to color versions of all figures, two online appendices, a full-text
sentence-level index, and an automatically generated glossary of acronyms and their definitions. In addition, demonstration digital library
collections will be included to demonstrate particular points in the book. to access the online content please visit, www.greenstone.org.
Audience
Librarians, digital librarians, metadata librarians, special collections librarians, institutional repository managers, publications managers,
documentation managers, library IT support personnel, and Library and Information Science faculty/students.
Contents
Part 1 Principles and Practices
Chapter 1 Orientation: The world of digital libraries
Example One: Supporting Human Development
Example Two: Pushing on the Frontiers of Science
Example Three: Preserving
a Traditional Culture
Example Four: Exploring Popular Music
1.1 Libraries and Digital Libraries
1.2 The Changing
Face of Libraries
1.3 Searching for Sophocles
1.4 Digital Libraries in Developing Countries
1.5 The
Pen is Mighty: Wield it Wisely
1.6 Planning a Digital Library
1.7 Implementing a Digital library: The Greenstone Software
1.8 Notes and Sources
Chapter 2 People in Digital Libraries
2.1 Roles
2.2
Identity
2.3 Help and User Support Services
2.4 Working with Digital Collections
2.5 User Contributions
2.6 Notes and Sources
Chapter 3 Presentation: User Interfaces
3.1 Presenting Textual Documents
3.2 Presenting Multimedia Documents
3.3 Document Surrogates
3.4 Searching
3.5 Metadata Browsing
3.6
Putting It All Together
3.7 Notes and Sources
Chapter 4 Textual documents: The raw material
4.1
Representing Textual Documents
4.2 Textual Images
4.3 Web Documents: HTML and XML
4.4 Presenting Web Documents:
CSS and XSL
4.5 Page Description Languages: PostScript and PDF
4.6 Word-Processor Documents
4.7 Other Documents
4.8 Notes and Sources
Chapter 5 Multimedia: More raw material
5.1 Introducing Compression and
Transforms
5.2 Audio
5.3 Images
5.4 Video
5.5 Rich media
5.6 Music
5.7 Notes and sources
Chapter 6 Metadata: Elements of organization
6.1 Characteristics of Metadata
6.2 Bibliographic
Metadata
6.3 Metadata for Multimedia
6.4 Metadata for Compound Objects
6.5 Metadata Quality
6.6 Extracting
Metadata
6.7 Notes and Sources
Chapter 7 Interoperability: Protocols and services
7.1 Z39.50
Protocol
7.2 Open Archives Initiative
7.3 Object Identification
7.4 Web Services
7.5 Authentication and
security
7.6 DSpace and Fedora
7.7 Notes and sources
Chapter 8 Internationalization: The global challenge
8.1 Multilingual Interfaces and Documents
8.2 Unicode
8.3 Hindi and Indic scripts
8.4 Word Segmentation
and Sorting
8.5 Notes and Sources
Chapter 9 Visions: Future, past, and present
9.1 Libraries
of the Future
9.2 Preserving the Past
9.3 Trends in Digital Libraries
9.4 Digital Libraries for Oral Cultures
9.5 Notes and Sources
PART II GREENSTONE DIGITAL LIBRARY SOFTWARE
Chapter 10 Building
collections
10.1 The Reader?s Interface
10.2 The Librarian Interface
10.3 Working with Documents
10.4 Formatting
10.5 Dealing with Metadata
10.6 Non-Textual Documents
10.7 Learning More
Chapter
11 Operating and interoperating
11.1 Inside Greenstone
11.2 Operational Aspects
11.3 Command-Line Operation
11.4 Under the Hood *
11.5 Interoperating
11.6 Distributed Operation
11.7 Large-Scale Usage
Chapter
12 Design patterns for advanced user interfaces
12.1 Format Statements and Macros
12.2 Design Patterns
12.3 The Greenstone Research Project
Glossary
References
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ISBN-13: 978-0-12-374857-7
Imprint: MORGAN KAUFFMAN
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