How to Build a Digital Library
- ISBN-10
- 0123748577
- ISBN-13
- 9780123748577
- Series
- How to Build a Digital Library
- Category
- Computers
- Pages
- 629
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010
- Publisher
- Morgan Kaufmann
- Authors
- David Bainbridge, Ian H. Witten, David M. Nichols
Description
Sketches the history of libraries-both traditional and digital-and their impact on present practices and future directions Offers in-depth coverage of today's practical standards used to represent and store information digitally in all settings Uses Greenstone, freely accessible open-source software-available with interfaces in major languages (including Spanish, Chinese, and Arabic) Written for both technical and non-technical audiences- covers the entire spectrum of media, including text, images, audio and video Web-enhanced with software documentation, color illustrations, full-text index, source code, and more.
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