Witten / Bainbridge / Nichols How to Build a Digital Library

2. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-08-089039-5
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 656 Seiten

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.
Outlines the history of libraries on both traditional and digitalWritten for both technical and non-technical audiences and covers the entire spectrum of media, including text, images, audio, video, and related XML standardsWeb-enhanced with software documentation, color illustrations, full-text index, source code, and more

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. He has written several books, the latest being Managing Gigabytes (1999) and Data Mining (2000), both from Morgan Kaufmann.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Witten, Ian H.

Bainbridge, David

Nichols, David M.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Front cover;1
2;Half title page;2
3;Title page;4
4;Copyright page;5
5;Table of contents;6
6;Preface;16
6.1;The Greenstone Software;17
6.2;Updated and Revised Content;18
6.3;How the Book Is Organized;19
6.4;What the Book Covers;19
6.5;About the Web Site;22
6.6;Acknowledgments;22
7;Part I: Principles and Practices;26
7.1;Chapter 1: Orientation: The world of digital libraries;28
7.1.1;Libraries and Digital Libraries;32
7.1.2;The Changing Face of Libraries;34
7.1.3;Searching for Sophocles;45
7.1.4;Digital Libraries in Developing Countries;50
7.1.5;The Pen Is Mighty: Wield It Wisely;54
7.1.6;Planning a Digital Library;63
7.1.7;Implementing a Digital Library: The Greenstone Software;66
7.1.8;Notes and Sources;66
7.2;Chapter 2: People in digital libraries;72
7.2.1;Roles;74
7.2.2;Identity;79
7.2.3;Help and User Support Services;86
7.2.4;Working with Digital Collections;88
7.2.5;User Contributions;92
7.2.6;Notes and Sources;95
7.3;Chapter 3: Presentation: User interfaces;98
7.3.1;From People to Presentation;98
7.3.2;Presenting Textual Documents;99
7.3.3;Presenting Multimedia Documents;111
7.3.4;Document Surrogates;115
7.3.5;Searching;118
7.3.6;Metadata Browsing;135
7.3.7;Putting It All Together;141
7.3.8;Notes and Sources;148
7.4;Chapter 4: Textual documents: The raw material;152
7.4.1;Representing Textual Documents;155
7.4.2;Textual Images;162
7.4.3;Web Documents: HTML and XML;177
7.4.4;Presenting Web Documents: CSS and XSL;188
7.4.5;Page Description Languages: PostScript and PDF;202
7.4.6;Word-Processor Documents;220
7.4.7;Other Documents;235
7.4.8;Notes and Sources;236
7.5;Chapter 5: Multimedia: More raw material;240
7.5.1;Introducing Compression and Transforms;241
7.5.2;Audio;246
7.5.3;Images;260
7.5.4;Video;283
7.5.5;Rich Media;296
7.5.6;Music;302
7.5.7;Notes and Sources;307
7.6;Chapter 6: Metadata: Elements of organization;310
7.6.1;Characteristics of Metadata;311
7.6.2;Bibliographic Metadata;313
7.6.3;Metadata for Multimedia;324
7.6.4;Metadata for Compound Objects;335
7.6.5;Metadata Quality;348
7.6.6;Extracting Metadata;355
7.6.7;Notes and Sources;364
7.7;Chapter 7: Interoperability: Protocols and services;368
7.7.1;Z39.50 Protocol;369
7.7.2;Open Archives Initiative;370
7.7.3;Object Identification;375
7.7.4;Web Services;379
7.7.5;Authentication and Security;384
7.7.6;DSpace and Fedora;386
7.7.7;Notes and Sources;394
7.8;Chapter 8: Internationalization: The global challenge;396
7.8.1;Multilingual interfaces and documents;397
7.8.2;Unicode;400
7.8.3;Hindi and indic scripts;414
7.8.4;Word segmentation and sorting;419
7.8.5;Notes and sources;423
7.9;Chapter 9: Visions: Future, past, and present;426
7.9.1;Libraries of the future;427
7.9.2;Preserving the past;433
7.9.3;Trends in digital libraries;445
7.9.4;Digital libraries for oral cultures;452
7.9.5;Notes and sources;454
8;Part II: Greenstone Digital Library Software;458
8.1;Chapter 10: Building collections;460
8.1.1;The Reader’s Interface;462
8.1.2;The Librarian Interface;467
8.1.3;Working with Documents;479
8.1.4;Formatting;494
8.1.5;Dealing with Metadata;510
8.1.6;Non-Textual Documents;520
8.1.7;Learning More;534
8.2;Chapter 11: Operating and interoperating;538
8.2.1;Inside Greenstone;539
8.2.2;Operational Aspects;544
8.2.3;Command-Line Operation;549
8.2.4;Under the Hood;554
8.2.5;Interoperating;564
8.2.6;Distributed Operation;570
8.2.7;Large-Scale Usage;579
8.3;Chapter 12: Design patterns for advanced user interfaces;584
8.3.1;Format Statements and Macros;585
8.3.2;Design Patterns;592
8.3.3;The Greenstone Research Project;610
9;Glossary;614
10;References;622
11;Index;632