(Ebook PDF) How to Build a Digital Library 2nd edition by Witten Ian, Bainbridge David, Nichols David 0080890393 9780123748577 9780080890395 full chapters
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Authors:Ian H. Witten; David Bainbridge; David M. Nichols , Series:Computer Science [25] , Tags:Computers; Database Administration & Management; System Administration; Storage & Retrieval; Language Arts & Disciplines; Library & Information Science; Archives & Special Libraries; Collection Development; ISBN-13:; 9780123748577 , Author sort:Witten, Ian H. & Bainbridge, David & Nichols, David M. , Ids:9780080890395 , Languages:Languages:eng , Published:Published:Nov 2009 , Publisher:Morgan Kaufmann , Comments:Comments:How 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. Outlines the history of libraries on both traditional and digital Written for both technical and non-technical audiences and covers the entire spectrum of media, including text, images, audio, video, and related XML standards Web-enhanced with software documentation, color illustrations, full-text index, source code, and more
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ISBN-10 : 0080890393
ISBN-13 : 9780123748577 9780080890395
Author : Witten H. Ian, Bainbridge David, Nichols M. David
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, regardless of the size or purpose. It is the perfectly self-contained resource for individuals, agencies, and institutions wishing to put this powerful tool to work in their burgeoning information treasuries. The Second Edition reflects new 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.
How to Build a Digital Library 2nd Table of contents:
Part I: Principles and Practices
Chapter 1: Orientation: The world of digital libraries
Libraries and Digital Libraries
The Changing Face of Libraries
Searching for Sophocles
Digital Libraries in Developing Countries
The Pen Is Mighty: Wield It Wisely
Planning a Digital Library
Implementing a Digital Library: The Greenstone Software
Notes and Sources
Chapter 2: People in digital libraries
Roles
Identity
Help and User Support Services
Working with Digital Collections
User Contributions
Notes and Sources
Chapter 3: Presentation: User interfaces
From People to Presentation
Presenting Textual Documents
Presenting Multimedia Documents
Document Surrogates
Searching
Metadata Browsing
Putting It All Together
Notes and Sources
Chapter 4: Textual documents: The raw material
Representing Textual Documents
Textual Images
Web Documents: HTML and XML
Presenting Web Documents: CSS and XSL
Page Description Languages: PostScript and PDF
Word-Processor Documents
Other Documents
Notes and Sources
Chapter 5: Multimedia: More raw material
Introducing Compression and Transforms
Audio
Images
Video
Rich Media
Music
Notes and Sources
Chapter 6: Metadata: Elements of organization
Characteristics of Metadata
Bibliographic Metadata
Metadata for Multimedia
Metadata for Compound Objects
Metadata Quality
Extracting Metadata
Notes and Sources
Chapter 7: Interoperability: Protocols and services
Z39.50 Protocol
Open Archives Initiative
Object Identification
Web Services
Authentication and Security
DSpace and Fedora
Notes and Sources
Chapter 8: Internationalization: The global challenge
Multilingual interfaces and documents
Unicode
Hindi and indic scripts
Word segmentation and sorting
Notes and sources
Chapter 9: Visions: Future, past, and present
Libraries of the future
Preserving the past
Trends in digital libraries
Digital libraries for oral cultures
Notes and sources
Part II: Greenstone Digital Library Software
Chapter 10: Building collections
The Reader’s Interface
The Librarian Interface
Working with Documents
Formatting
Dealing with Metadata
Non-Textual Documents
Learning More
Chapter 11: Operating and interoperating
Inside Greenstone
Operational Aspects
Command-Line Operation
Under the Hood
Interoperating
Distributed Operation
Large-Scale Usage
Chapter 12: Design patterns for advanced user interfaces
Format Statements and Macros
Design Patterns
The Greenstone Research Project
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