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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... .............................................................................116 An institutional repository..........................................................................116 3.7 Notes and Sources....................
... ....................................................................545 Institutional repositories..............................................................................549 Large-Scale Usage................
... repository system. Next we turn to documents, the digital library's raw material. Chapter 4 begins with character representation, in particular Unicode, which is a way of representing all the characters used in all the world's languages ...
... repository but a catalog and means of access. And the Web is a prolific source of other musical resources, from record stores to guitar tablatures for popular tunes. Having found a tune, you can listen to samples of recordings by ...
... repositories for knowledge: temples, if you like, of culture and wisdom. Born in an era when agriculture was humankind's greatest preoccupation, libraries experienced a resurgence with the invention of printing in the Renaissance, and ...