By Ian H. Witten, David Bainbridge, David M. Nichols
'How to construct a electronic Library' is the one e-book that gives the entire wisdom and instruments had to build and preserve a electronic library, whatever the measurement or objective. it's the completely self-contained source for people, businesses, and associations wishing to place this robust software to paintings of their burgeoning info treasuries. the second one version displays new advancements within the box in addition to within the Greenstone electronic Library open resource software program. partially I, the authors have extra a complete new bankruptcy on consumer teams, consumer help, collaborative shopping, person contributions, and so forth. there's additionally new fabric on content-based queries, map-based queries, cross-media queries. there's an elevated emphasis put on multimedia by means of including a "digitizing" part to every significant media kind. a brand new bankruptcy has additionally been further on "internationalization," which will tackle Unicode criteria, multi-language interfaces and collections, and matters with non-European languages (Chinese, Hindi, etc.). half II, the software program instruments part, has been thoroughly rewritten to mirror the recent advancements in Greenstone electronic Library software program, an the world over well known open resource software program instrument with a accomplished graphical facility for growing and keeping electronic libraries. As with the 1st version, an internet site, applied as a electronic library, will accompany the ebook and supply entry to paint models of all figures, on-line appendices, a full-text sentence-level index, and an instantly generated thesaurus of acronyms and their definitions. furthermore, demonstration electronic library collections may be incorporated to illustrate specific issues within the booklet. to entry the web content material please stopover at, http://www.greenstone.org/howto
*Outlines the background of libraries-- either conventional and digital-- and their influence on current practices and destiny instructions. *Written for either technical and non-technical audiences and covers the full spectrum of media, together with textual content, pictures, audio, video, and similar XML criteria. *Web-enhanced with software program documentation, colour illustrations, full-text index, resource code, and extra.
Read or Download How to Build a Digital Library (2nd Edition) (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Multimedia Information and Systems) PDF
Best information systems books
The 3-D global spatial data model: foundation of the spatial data
Conventional equipment for dealing with spatial info are weighted down by means of the idea of separate origins for horizontal and vertical measurements. smooth dimension platforms function in a 3-D spatial atmosphere. The three-D worldwide Spatial facts version: starting place of the Spatial information Infrastructure deals a brand new version for dealing with electronic spatial information, the worldwide spatial info version or GSDM.
iPhone: The Missing Manual: Covers the iPhone 3G
The hot iPhone 3G is the following, and ny instances tech columnist David Pogue is on most sensible of it with a completely up-to-date variation of iPhone: The lacking handbook. With its swifter downloads, touch-screen iPod, and best-ever cellular internet browser, the recent reasonable iPhone is jam-packed with percentages. yet with no an goal advisor like this one, you are going to by no means release all it could do for you.
Applied GIS and Spatial Analysis
The recognition of geography as an instructional self-discipline is partially defined by means of its relevance to the genuine global. Spatial research makes use of geographic details and statistical tools for the examine of particular purposes, starting from enterprise situation research to the dimension of internal urban deprivation, and whilst utilized in conjunction with GIS, visible representations and "what if" situations may be created.
Additional resources for How to Build a Digital Library (2nd Edition) (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Multimedia Information and Systems)
Sample text
The public lending right compensates authors for public lending of their work—although an exception is granted for not-for-profit and educational use, which do not require the copyright holder’s consent. The remaining rights, called other rights, include permitting or refusing public performance of the work, and making derivative works like plays or movies. Copyright law is complex, arcane, and varies from one country to another. S. Congress followed suit in 1790. Although copyright is national law, most countries today have signed the Berne Convention of 1886, which lays down a basic international framework.
Such legislation jeopardizes basic rights legally enshrined in the concept of copyright. DRM allows reading rights to be controlled, monitored, and withdrawn, and DMCA legislation makes it illegal for users to seek redress by taking matters into their own hands. In scholarly publishing, DRM is already well advanced. Academic libraries license access to content in electronic form, often in tandem with purchase of print versions. Because they form the entire market, they have been able to negotiate reasonable conditions with publishers.
Some international gambling sites claim to comply with local laws by checking the geographical origin of the user (a difficult and unreliable procedure that is easily circumvented) and by refusing to offer their services in countries where gambling is illegal. Cultural sensitivity Most digital libraries are produced by people from Western backgrounds, yet the majority of the world’s population live in countries that have very different cultures. Some digital libraries are specifically aimed at people in different parts of the world: collections for developing countries, for example, or collections aimed at preserving and promoting indigenous cultures.
