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, http://www.greenstone.org/howto
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.
