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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... particular implementation—we have worked to minimize this dependence and make the book of interest to people using other software infrastructure for their digital collections. Most of what we say has broad application and is not tied to ...
... particular Unicode, which is a way of representing all the characters used in all the world's languages. Plain text formats introduce some issues that you need to know about. Here we take the opportunity to describe full-text indexing ...
... 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 protocol is also used so that novel user interface ...
... particular order). Te Taka Keegan and Mark Apperley undertook the Ma ̄ori Newspaper project described in Chapter 3. Through Te Taka's efforts we receive inspiration every day from the magnificent Ma ̄ori toki that resides in our ...
... particular made a great number of pertinent and constructive comments that helped us improve this book significantly. Much of this book was written in people's homes while the authors were traveling around the world, including an ...
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 |