How to Build a Digital Library

Digital libraries are focused collections of digital objects, including text, video and audio, along with methods for access, retrieval and organization. This work is written for a diverse audience, to explain what digital libraries are, what they can do, how they are used and how to set them up.

List of contents

Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1 Orientation: The world of digital libraries
Chapter 2 Preliminaries: Sorting out the ingredients
Chapter 3 Presentation: User interfaces
Chapter 4 Documents: The raw material
Chapter 5 Markup and metadata: Elements of organization
Chapter 6 Construction: Building collections
Chapter 7 Delivery: How Greenstone works
Chapter 8 Interoperability: Standards and protocols
Chapter 9 Visions: Future, past, and present
References
Glossary of terms
Appendix A Installing and operating Greenstone
Appendix B Greenstone source code

Product details

• Authors: David Bainbridge, I.h. Bainbridge Witten, Ian H. Witten
• Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.07.2002
• EAN: 9781558607903
• ISBN: 978-1-55860-790-3
• No. of pages: 518
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > IT; Bibliothek, Online-Publishing