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.