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How to Build a Digital Library Ian H. Witten (Computer Science Department, University of Waikato, New Zealand)

How to Build a Digital Library By Ian H. Witten (Computer Science Department, University of Waikato, New Zealand)

How to Build a Digital Library by Ian H. Witten (Computer Science Department, University of Waikato, New Zealand)


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Outlines the history of libraries - traditional and digital. This title offers the knowledge and tools needed to construct and maintain a digital library, regardless of the size or purpose. Suitable for technical and non-technical audiences, it covers the entire spectrum of media, including text, images, audio, video, and related XML standards.

How to Build a Digital Library Summary

How to Build a Digital Library by Ian H. Witten (Computer Science Department, University of Waikato, New Zealand)

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.

How to Build a Digital Library Reviews

This book provides broad coverage of related work in the field. That is handy, since there is a large international community working on DLs.-- Edward A. Fox, Director, Digital Library Research Laboratory, Blacksburg, VA These chapters (along with the others) are well written and fully illustrated by screen shots and other examples, making the presentation of the technical content very effective.... [T]his is a very worthwhile addition to the literature of digital libraries-- Thomas D. Wilson, Professor Emeritus at the Department of Information Studies, University of Sheffield, Visiting Professor at Leeds University Business School, Visiting Professor at the University of Boras, Sweden. http://informationr.net/ir/reviews/revs409.html

About Ian H. Witten (Computer Science Department, University of Waikato, New Zealand)

Ian H. Witten is a professor of computer science at the University of Waikato in New Zealand. He directs the New Zealand Digital Library research project. His research interests include information retrieval, machine learning, text compression, and programming by demonstration. He received an MA in Mathematics from Cambridge University, England; an MSc in Computer Science from the University of Calgary, Canada; and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Essex University, England. He is a fellow of the ACM and of the Royal Society of New Zealand. He has published widely on digital libraries, machine learning, text compression, hypertext, speech synthesis and signal processing, and computer typography. David Bainbridge is a senior lecturer in Computer Science at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. He holds a PhD in Optical Music Recognition from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand where he studied as a Commonwealth Scholar. Since moving to Waikato in 1996 he has continued to broadened his interest in digital media, while retaining a particular emphasis on music. An active member of the New Zealand Digital Library project, he manages the group's digital music library, Meldex, and has collaborated with several United Nations Agencies, the BBC and various public libraries. David has also worked as a research engineer for Thorn EMI in the area of photo-realistic imaging and graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1991 as the class medalist in Computer Science. Is a senior lecturer, specializes in the areas of human-computer interaction, open source software and digital library education.

Table of 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

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NPB9780123748577
9780123748577
0123748577
How to Build a Digital Library by Ian H. Witten (Computer Science Department, University of Waikato, New Zealand)
New
Paperback
Elsevier Science & Technology
2009-11-09
656
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