How to Build a Digital LibraryHow 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.
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... Internet access. The difficulty of getting there effectively discourages local inhabitants from taking advantage of the information and communication technologies that we take for granted in developed countries. The Kataayi community ...
... Internet's killer app. The killer app for digital libraries may well be music collections; in turn, Section 1.4 shows that as far as the developing world is concerned, digital libraries themselves may be killer apps for computer ...
... Internet includes such a wealth of content that surely there must be something of benefit to everyone. However, this ignores not only the problem of language—most information is available only in major languages like English—but also ...
... Internet, the figure for Latin America and the Caribbean was 0.8 percent, for Sub-Saharan Africa 0.1 percent, and for South Asia 0.04 percent. Schools and hospitals in developing countries are poorly connected. Even in relatively well ...
... Internet access. The 650-MB capacity of a CD-ROM can hold a useful volume of information, such as the 1,200 fully illustrated and fully indexed books in the Humanity Development Library. Most of the space in a collection like this is ...