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.
1. Cover image 2. Table of Contents 3. Copyright 4. Preface 5. Chapter 1. Orientation 6. 1.1. Libraries and Digital Libraries 7. 1.2. The Changing Face of Libraries 8. 1.3. Searching for Sophocles 9. 1.4. Digital Libraries in Developing Countries 10. 1.5. The Pen Is Mighty: Wield It Wisely 11. 1.6. Planning a Digital Library 12. 1.7. Implementing a Digital Library: The Greenstone Software 13. 1.8. Notes and Sources 14. Chapter 2. People in digital libraries 15. 2.1. Roles 16. 2.2. Identity 17. 2.3. Help and User Support Services 18. 2.4. Working with Digital Collections 19. 2.5. User Contributions 20. 2.6. Notes and Sources 21. Chapter 3. Presentation 22. 3.1. Presenting Textual Documents 23. 3.2. Presenting Multimedia Documents 24. 3.3. Document Surrogates 25. 3.4. Searching 26. 3.5. Metadata Browsing 27. 3.6. Putting It All Together 28. 3.7. Notes and Sources 29. Chapter 4. Textual documents 30. 4.1. Representing Textual Documents 31. 4.2. Textual Images 32. 4.3. Web Documents: HTML and XML 33. 4.4. Presenting Web Documents: CSS and XSL 34. 4.5. Page Description Languages: PostScript and PDF 35. 4.6. Word-Processor Documents 36. 4.7. Other Documents 37. 4.8. Notes and Sources 38. Chapter 5. Multimedia 39. 5.1. Introducing Compression and Transforms 40. 5.2. Audio 41. 5.3. Images 42. 5.4. Video 43. 5.5. Rich Media 44. 5.6. Music 45. 5.7. Notes and Sources 46. Chapter 6. Metadata 47. 6.1. Characteristics of Metadata 48. 6.2. Bibliographic Metadata 49. 6.3. Metadata for Multimedia 50. 6.4. Metadata for Compound Objects 51. 6.5. Metadata Quality 52. 6.6. Extracting Metadata 53. 6.7. Notes and Sources 54. Chapter 7. Interoperability 55. 7.1. Z39.50 Protocol 56. 7.2. Open Archives Initiative 57. 7.3. Object Identification 58. 7.4. Web Services 59. 7.5. Authentication and Security 60. 7.6. DSpace and Fedora 61. 7.7. Notes and Sources 62. Chapter 8. Internationalization 63. 8.1. Multilingual interfaces and documents 64. 8.2. Unicode 65. 8.3. Hindi and indic scripts 66. 8.4. Word segmentation and sorting 67. 8.5. Notes and sources 68. Chapter 9. Visions 69. 9.1. Libraries of the future 70. 9.2. Preserving the past 71. 9.3. Trends in digital libraries 72. 9.4. Digital libraries for oral cultures 73. 9.5. Notes and sources 74. Chapter 10. Building collections 75. 10.1. The Reader's Interface 76. 10.2. The Librarian Interface 77. 10.3. Working with Documents 78. 10.4. Formatting 79. 10.5. Dealing with Metadata 80. 10.6. Non-Textual Documents 81. 10.7. Learning More 82. Chapter 11. Operating and interoperating 83. 11.1. Inside Greenstone 84. 11.2. Operational Aspects 85. 11.3. Command-Line Operation 86. 11.4. Under the Hood 87. 11.5. Interoperating 88. 11.6. Distributed Operation 89. 11.7. Large-Scale Usage 90. Chapter 12. Design patterns for advanced user interfaces 91. 12.1. Format Statements and Macros 92. 12.2. Design Patterns 93. 12.3. The Greenstone Research Project 94. Glossary 95. References 96. Index
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.
1. Cover image 2. Table of Contents 3. Copyright 4. Preface 5. Chapter 1. Orientation 6. 1.1. Libraries and Digital Libraries 7. 1.2. The Changing Face of Libraries 8. 1.3. Searching for Sophocles 9. 1.4. Digital Libraries in Developing Countries 10. 1.5. The Pen Is Mighty: Wield It Wisely 11. 1.6. Planning a Digital Library 12. 1.7. Implementing a Digital Library: The Greenstone Software 13. 1.8. Notes and Sources 14. Chapter 2. People in digital libraries 15. 2.1. Roles 16. 2.2. Identity 17. 2.3. Help and User Support Services 18. 2.4. Working with Digital Collections 19. 2.5. User Contributions 20. 2.6. Notes and Sources 21. Chapter 3. Presentation 22. 3.1. Presenting Textual Documents 23. 3.2. Presenting Multimedia Documents 24. 3.3. Document Surrogates 25. 3.4. Searching 26. 3.5. Metadata Browsing 27. 3.6. Putting It All Together 28. 3.7. Notes and Sources 29. Chapter 4. Textual documents 30. 4.1. Representing Textual Documents 31. 4.2. Textual Images 32. 4.3. Web Documents: HTML and XML 33. 4.4. Presenting Web Documents: CSS and XSL 34. 4.5. Page Description Languages: PostScript and PDF 35. 4.6. Word-Processor Documents 36. 4.7. Other Documents 37. 4.8. Notes and Sources 38. Chapter 5. Multimedia 39. 5.1. Introducing Compression and Transforms 40. 5.2. Audio 41. 5.3. Images 42. 5.4. Video 43. 5.5. Rich Media 44. 5.6. Music 45. 5.7. Notes and Sources 46. Chapter 6. Metadata 47. 6.1. Characteristics of Metadata 48. 6.2. Bibliographic Metadata 49. 6.3. Metadata for Multimedia 50. 6.4. Metadata for Compound Objects 51. 6.5. Metadata Quality 52. 6.6. Extracting Metadata 53. 6.7. Notes and Sources 54. Chapter 7. Interoperability 55. 7.1. Z39.50 Protocol 56. 7.2. Open Archives Initiative 57. 7.3. Object Identification 58. 7.4. Web Services 59. 7.5. Authentication and Security 60. 7.6. DSpace and Fedora 61. 7.7. Notes and Sources 62. Chapter 8. Internationalization 63. 8.1. Multilingual interfaces and documents 64. 8.2. Unicode 65. 8.3. Hindi and indic scripts 66. 8.4. Word segmentation and sorting 67. 8.5. Notes and sources 68. Chapter 9. Visions 69. 9.1. Libraries of the future 70. 9.2. Preserving the past 71. 9.3. Trends in digital libraries 72. 9.4. Digital libraries for oral cultures 73. 9.5. Notes and sources 74. Chapter 10. Building collections 75. 10.1. The Reader's Interface 76. 10.2. The Librarian Interface 77. 10.3. Working with Documents 78. 10.4. Formatting 79. 10.5. Dealing with Metadata 80. 10.6. Non-Textual Documents 81. 10.7. Learning More 82. Chapter 11. Operating and interoperating 83. 11.1. Inside Greenstone 84. 11.2. Operational Aspects 85. 11.3. Command-Line Operation 86. 11.4. Under the Hood 87. 11.5. Interoperating 88. 11.6. Distributed Operation 89. 11.7. Large-Scale Usage 90. Chapter 12. Design patterns for advanced user interfaces 91. 12.1. Format Statements and Macros 92. 12.2. Design Patterns 93. 12.3. The Greenstone Research Project 94. Glossary 95. References 96. Index
