How to build a digital library

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Given 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 libra…

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Title Statements

Full title :How to build a digital library / Ian H. Witten, David Bainbridge.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2003.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Morgan Kaufmann Publishers
Place of Publication:San Francisco, CA
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2003.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xxxiii, 518 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0585462356, 9780585462356, 1281028606, 9781281028600, 9786611028602, 6611028609, 0080508251, 9780080508252
oclc:ocm53017098
LC Classification:ZA4080
Dewey Decimal:025.00285

Front Cover; How to Build a Digital Library; Copyright Page; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Foreword; Preface; Chapter 1. Orientation: The world of digital libraries; 1.1 Libraries and digital libraries; 1.2 The changing face of libraries; 1.3 Digital libraries in developing countries; 1.4 The Greenstone software; 1.5 The pen is mighty: Wield it wisely; 1.6 Notes and sources; Chapter 2. Preliminaries: Sorting out the ingredients; 2.1 Sources of material; 2.2 Bibliographic organization; 2.3 Modes of access; 2.4 Digitizing documents; 2.5 Notes and sources

Chapter 3. Presentation: User interfaces3.1 Presenting documents; 3.2 Presenting metadata; 3.3 Searching; 3.4 Browsing; 3.5 Phrase browsing; 3.6 Browsing using extracted metadata; 3.7 Notes and sources; Chapter 4. Documents: The raw material; 4.1 Representing characters; 4.2 Representing documents; 4.3 Page description languages: PostScript and PDF; 4.4 Word-processor documents; 4.5 Representing images; 4.6 Representing audio and video; 4.7 Notes and sources; Chapter 5. Markup and metadata: Elements of organization; 5.1 Hypertext markup language: HTML; 5.2 Extensible markup language: XML

5.3 Presenting marked-up docum…