附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 489-498) and index.
Front Cover; How to Build a Digital Library; Copyright Page; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Foreword; Preface; Chapter 1. Orientation: The world of digital libraries; 1.1 Libraries and digital libraries; 1.2 The changing face of libraries; 1.3 Digital libraries in developing countries; 1.4 The Greenstone software; 1.5 The pen is mighty: Wield it wisely; 1.6 Notes and sources; Chapter 2. Preliminaries: Sorting out the ingredients; 2.1 Sources of material; 2.2 Bibliographic organization; 2.3 Modes of access; 2.4 Digitizing documents; 2.5 Notes and sources
Chapter 3. Presentation: User interfaces3.1 Presenting documents; 3.2 Presenting metadata; 3.3 Searching; 3.4 Browsing; 3.5 Phrase browsing; 3.6 Browsing using extracted metadata; 3.7 Notes and sources; Chapter 4. Documents: The raw material; 4.1 Representing characters; 4.2 Representing documents; 4.3 Page description languages: PostScript and PDF; 4.4 Word-processor documents; 4.5 Representing images; 4.6 Representing audio and video; 4.7 Notes and sources; Chapter 5. Markup and metadata: Elements of organization; 5.1 Hypertext markup language: HTML; 5.2 Extensible markup language: XML
5.3 Presenting marked-up documents5.4 Bibliographic metadata; 5.5 Metadata for images and multimedia; 5.6 Extracting metadata; 5.7 Notes and sources; Chapter 6. Construction: Building collections with Greenstone; 6.1 Why Greenstone?; 6.2 Using the Collector; 6.3 Building collections manually: A walkthrough; 6.4 Importing and building; 6.5 Greenstone archive documents; 6.6 Collection configuration file; 6.7 Getting the most out of your documents; 6.8 Building collections graphically; 6.9 Notes and sources; Chapter 7. Delivery: How Greenstone works; 7.1 Processes and protocols
7.2 Preliminaries7.3 Responding to user requests; 7.4 Operational aspects; 7.5 Notes and sources; Chapter 8. Interoperability: Standards and protocols; 8.1 More markup; 8.2 Resource description; 8.3 Document exchange; 8.4 Query languages; 8.5 Protocols; 8.6 Research protocols; 8.7 Notes and sources; Chapter 9. Visions: Future, past, and present; 9.1 Libraries of the future; 9.2 Preserving the past; 9.3 Generalized documents: A challenge for the present; 9.4 Notes and sources; Appendix: Installing and operating Greenstone; Glossary; References; Index; About the authors
摘要:Given modern society's need to control its ever-increasing body of information, digital libraries will be among the most important and influential institutions of this century. With their versatility, accessibility, and economy, these focused collections of everything digital are fast becoming the ""banks"" in which the world's wealth of information is stored. How to Build a Digital Library is the only book that offers all the knowledge and tools needed to construct and maintain a digital library-no matter how large or small. Two internationally recognized exper
