How to Build a Digital Library, 2/e (Paperback)

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, regardless of the size or purpose. It is the perfectly self-contained resource for individuals, agencies, and institutions wishing to put this powerful tool to work in their burgeoning information treasuries. The Second Edition reflects new 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. As with the First Edition, a web site, implemented as a digital library, will accompany the book and provide access to color versions of all figures, two online appendices, a full-text sentence-level index, and an automatically generated glossary of acronyms and their definitions. In addition, demonstration digital library collections will be included to demonstrate particular points in the book. to access the online content please visit, http://www.greenstone.org/howto

*Outlines the history of libraries-- both traditional and digital-- and their impact on present practices and future directions. *Written for both technical and non-technical audiences and covers the entire spectrum of media, including text, images, audio, video, and related XML standards. *Web-enhanced with software documentation, color illustrations, full-text index, source code, and more.

《如何建立數位圖書館》是唯一一本提供建立和維護數位圖書館所需知識和工具的書籍，無論規模大小或目的如何。對於希望在不斷增長的資訊寶庫中運用這個強大工具的個人、機構和機構來說，這是一個完全自足的資源。第二版反映了該領域以及Greenstone數位圖書館開源軟體的新發展。在第一部分中，作者們新增了一個全新的章節，介紹了使用者群組、使用者支援、協作瀏覽、使用者貢獻等內容。還有關於基於內容、基於地圖和跨媒體查詢的新材料。通過在每個主要媒體類型中添加一個“數位化”部分，更加強調了多媒體。還新增了一章關於“國際化”的內容，將涉及Unicode標準、多語言界面和收藏，以及與非歐洲語言（中文、印地語等）相關的問題。第二部分的軟體工具部分已經完全重寫，以反映Greenstone數位圖書館軟體的新發展，這是一個國際上廣受歡迎的開源軟體工具，具有全面的圖形化功能，用於創建和維護數位圖書館。與第一版一樣，本書將附帶一個實施為數位圖書館的網站，提供所有圖片的彩色版本、兩個線上附錄、全文句級索引和自動生成的縮寫詞彙表。此外，還將包含示範數位圖書館收藏，以示範書中的特定觀點。要訪問線上內容，請訪問網站：http://www.greenstone.org/howto

該書概述了傳統和數位圖書館的歷史，以及它們對當前實踐和未來發展的影響。適合技術和非技術讀者，涵蓋了包括文本、圖像、音頻、視頻和相關XML標準在內的所有媒體範疇。網站提供軟體文件、彩色插圖、全文索引、原始碼等增強功能。