Full Description
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.
Contents
Part I Building a Digital Library
Chapter 1 Orientation: The world of digital libraries Chapter 2 People in digital libraries
Chapter 3 Presentation: User interfaces
Chapter 4 Textual documents: The raw material
Chapter 5 Multimedia: More raw material
Chapter 6 Metadata: Elements of organization
Chapter 7 Interoperability: Protocols and services
Chapter 8 Internationalization: the global challenge
Chapter 9 Visions: Future, past, and present
PART II GREENSTONE DIGITAL LIBRARY SOFTWARE
Chapter 10 Building collections
Chapter 11 Operating and interoperating
Chapter 12 Design patterns for advanced user interfaces
