How to Build a Digital LibraryGiven modern society's need to control its ever-increasing body of information, digital libraries will be among the most important and influential institutions of this century. With their versatility, accessibility, and economy, these focused collections of everything digital are fast becoming the "banks" in which the world's wealth of information is stored. 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-no matter how large or small. Two internationally recognized experts provide a fully developed, step-by-step method, as well as the software that makes it all possible. How to Build a Digital Library is the perfectly self-contained resource for individuals, agencies, and institutions wishing to put this powerful tool to work in their burgeoning information treasuries.
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... command language 419 XML Query 422 Protocols 426 Z39.50 427 Supporting the Z39.50 protocol 429 The Open Archives Initiative 430 Supporting the OAI protocol 433 Research protocols 434 Dienst 435 Simple digital library interoperability ...
... Command Language. 421 Various FIND commands. 422 XML library of publications: (a) main XML file (library.xml); (b) supporting file (bottle_creek.xml). 424 XQuery commands. 425 XQuery commands that demonstrate element construction. 426 ...
... XLink attributes. 399 Common Command Language keywords, with abbreviations. 420 Facilities provided by Z39.50. 428 Open Archive Initiative protocol requests. 433 C Foreword by Edward A. Fox omputer science addresses important xx TABLES.
... extended to annotating documents with structural information—including metadata—rather than (or as well as) formatting commands. Chapter 5 covers markup and metadata and also explains how metadata is expressed xxix PREFACE.
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Contents
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The raw material | 131 |
Elements of organization | 221 |
Building collections with Greenstone | 283 |
How Greenstone works | 355 |
Standards and protocols | 393 |
Future past and present | 443 |
Installing and operating Greenstone | 477 |
Glossary | 481 |
References | 489 |
Index | 499 |
About the authors | 517 |