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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... display. 97 Metadata examples: (a) bibliography record retrieved from the Library of Congress; (b) description of a BBC television program. 98 Searching for a quotation: (a) query page; (b) query response. 100 Choosing search ...
... displays, and dynamically generated phrase hierarchies. 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 ...
... display that can be subclassed and adapted to particular collections. To retain full flexibility (e.g., for translating the interface into different languages) a macro language is used to generate the Web pages. A communications ...
... display. (Some say that had books been invented after computers were, they would have been hailed as a great advance.) Rather, we hope that you are inspired by a vision—perhaps something like the scenarios above—of achieving new human ...
... display user interface in multiple languages Can handle collections of text, pictures, audio, and video Allows hierarchical browsing Designed for multi-gigabyte collections The user can browse lists of authors, lists of titles, lists of ...
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 |