How to Build a Digital Library

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 experts provide a fully developed, step-by-step method, as well as the software that makes it all possible. How to Build a Digital Library is the perfectly self-contained resource for individuals, agencies, and institutions wishing to put this powerful tool to work in their burgeoning information treasuries.

  
Contents

Contents 
Preface  
Acknowledgements  
Chapter 1 Orientation: The world of digital libraries  
Chapter 2 Preliminaries: Sorting out the ingredients  
Chapter 3 Presentation: User interfaces  
Chapter 4 Documents: The raw material  
Chapter 5 Markup and metadata: Elements of organization  
Chapter 6 Construction: Building collections  
Chapter 7 Delivery: How Greenstone works  
Chapter 8 Interoperability: Standards and protocols  
Chapter 9 Visions: Future, past, and present  
References  
Glossary of terms  
Appendix A Installing and operating Greenstone  
Appendix B Greenstone source code