How to Build a Digital Library

This is the ONLY book you need to develop the knowledge and tools necessary to build and maintain a digital library regardless of size or purpose!

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 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.