How to Build a Digital Library (eBook)
518 Seiten
Elsevier Science (Verlag)
978-0-08-050825-2 (ISBN)
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 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.
* Sketches the history of libraries-both traditional and digital-and their impact on present practices and future directions
* Offers in-depth coverage of today's practical standards used to represent and store information digitally
* Uses Greenstone, freely accessible open-source software-available with interfaces in the world's major languages (including Spanish, Chinese, and Arabic)
* Written for both technical and non-technical audiences
* Web-enhanced with software documentation, color illustrations, full-text index, source code, and more
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 "e;banks"e; 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. Sketches the history of libraries-both traditional and digital-and their impact on present practices and future directions Offers in-depth coverage of today's practical standards used to represent and store information digitally Uses Greenstone, freely accessible open-source software-available with interfaces in the world's major languages (including Spanish, Chinese, and Arabic) Written for both technical and non-technical audiences
Front Cover 1
How to Build a Digital Library 4
Copyright Page 5
Contents 6
List of figures 14
List of tables 20
Foreword 22
Preface 26
Chapter 1. Orientation: The world of digital libraries 36
1.1 Libraries and digital libraries 40
1.2 The changing face of libraries 43
1.3 Digital libraries in developing countries 55
1.4 The Greenstone software 59
1.5 The pen is mighty: Wield it wisely 63
1.6 Notes and sources 70
Chapter 2. Preliminaries: Sorting out the ingredients 74
2.1 Sources of material 75
2.2 Bibliographic organization 81
2.3 Modes of access 90
2.4 Digitizing documents 93
2.5 Notes and sources 108
Chapter 3. Presentation: User interfaces 112
3.1 Presenting documents 116
3.2 Presenting metadata 131
3.3 Searching 134
3.4 Browsing 147
3.5 Phrase browsing 154
3.6 Browsing using extracted metadata 159
3.7 Notes and sources 161
Chapter 4. Documents: The raw material 166
4.1 Representing characters 169
4.2 Representing documents 190
4.3 Page description languages: PostScript and PDF 198
4.4 Word-processor documents 219
4.5 Representing images 229
4.6 Representing audio and video 241
4.7 Notes and sources 251
Chapter 5. Markup and metadata: Elements of organization 256
5.1 Hypertext markup language: HTML 259
5.2 Extensible markup language: XML 264
5.3 Presenting marked-up documents 272
5.4 Bibliographic metadata 288
5.5 Metadata for images and multimedia 296
5.6 Extracting metadata 301
5.7 Notes and sources 315
Chapter 6. Construction: Building collections with Greenstone 318
6.1 Why Greenstone? 320
6.2 Using the Collector 327
6.3 Building collections manually: A walkthrough 337
6.4 Importing and building 344
6.5 Greenstone archive documents 354
6.6 Collection configuration file 358
6.7 Getting the most out of your documents 362
6.8 Building collections graphically 384
6.9 Notes and sources 388
Chapter 7. Delivery: How Greenstone works 390
7.1 Processes and protocols 391
7.2 Preliminaries 395
7.3 Responding to user requests 407
7.4 Operational aspects 420
7.5 Notes and sources 427
Chapter 8. Interoperability: Standards and protocols 428
8.1 More markup 430
8.2 Resource description 443
8.3 Document exchange 448
8.4 Query languages 454
8.5 Protocols 461
8.6 Research protocols 469
8.7 Notes and sources 475
Chapter 9. Visions: Future, past, and present 478
9.1 Libraries of the future 480
9.2 Preserving the past 489
9.3 Generalized documents: A challenge for the present 497
9.4 Notes and sources 509
Appendix: Installing and operating Greenstone 512
Glossary 516
References 524
Index 534
About the authors 552
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 16.7.2002 |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Datenbanken |
| Informatik ► Grafik / Design ► Digitale Bildverarbeitung | |
| Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Programmiersprachen / -werkzeuge | |
| Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Software Entwicklung | |
| Informatik ► Theorie / Studium ► Kryptologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Buchhandel / Bibliothekswesen | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-08-050825-1 / 0080508251 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-08-050825-2 / 9780080508252 |
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