Front cover -- Half title page -- How to Build a Digital Library -- Copyright page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- The Greenstone Software -- Updated and Revised Content -- How the Book Is Organized -- What the Book Covers -- About the Web Site -- Acknowledgments -- Part I Principles and Practices -- Chapter 1 Orientation -- Example One: Supporting Human Development -- Example Two: Pushing on the Frontiers of Science -- Example Three: Preserving a Traditional Culture -- Example Four: Exploring Popular Music -- The scope of digital libraries -- 1.1 Libraries and Digital Libraries -- 1.2 The Changing Face of Libraries -- In the beginning -- The information explosion -- The Alexandrian principle -- Early technodreams -- The library catalog -- The changing nature of books -- 1.3 Searching for Sophocles -- 1.4 Digital Libraries in Developing Countries -- Disseminating humanitarian information -- Disaster relief -- Preserving indigenous culture -- Locally produced information -- The technological infrastructure -- 1.5 The Pen Is Mighty: Wield It Wisely -- Copyright law -- The public domain -- Relinquishing copyright -- Digital rights management -- Copyright and digitization -- Collecting from the Web -- Illegal and harmful material -- Cultural sensitivity -- 1.6 Planning a Digital Library -- 1.7 Implementing a Digital Library: The Greenstone Software -- 1.8 Notes and Sources -- Chapter 2 People in digital libraries -- 2.1 Roles -- Global users -- Roles of librarians -- Change -- 2.2 Identity -- Anonymous use -- Authenticated use -- Recording usage data -- 2.3 Help and User Support Services -- 2.4 Working with Digital Collections -- Using information from digital libraries -- Referring to objects in a digital library -- Berry-picking -- 2.5 User Contributions -- Annotations -- Keywords -- Ratings -- Corrections -- New documents.

Partial and fluid documents -- 2.6 Notes and Sources -- Chapter 3 Presentation -- From People to Presentation -- 3.1 Presenting Textual Documents -- Documents, chapters, sections -- Unstructured text documents -- Page images -- Images with text -- Realistic books -- 3.2 Presenting Multimedia Documents -- Sound and pictures -- Video -- Music -- 3.3 Document Surrogates -- Metadata -- Multimedia surrogates -- 3.4 Searching -- Types of queries -- Case-folding and stemming -- Phrase searching -- Query interfaces -- Searching multimedia -- Searching music -- Searching images -- 3.5 Metadata Browsing -- Lists -- Dates -- Hierarchies -- Facets -- 3.6 Putting It All Together -- An institutional repository -- 3.7 Notes and Sources -- Chapter 4 Textual documents -- 4.1 Representing Textual Documents -- ASCII -- Unicode -- Plain text -- Indexing -- Word segmentation -- 4.2 Textual Images -- Scanning -- Optical character recognition -- Acquisition, cleanup, and page analysis -- Recognition -- Checking and saving -- Page handling -- Planning an image digitization project -- Inside an OCR shop -- An example project -- 4.3 Web Documents: HTML and XML -- Markup and stylesheet languages -- Basic HTML -- Using HTML in a digital library -- Basic XML -- Parsing XML -- Using XML in a digital library -- 4.4 Presenting Web Documents: CSS and XSL -- CSS -- Cascading style sheets -- Context- and media-dependent formatting -- Extensible stylesheet language -- Using Formatting Objects -- Context- and media-dependent formatting -- Processing in XSL -- 4.5 Page Description Languages: PostScript and PDF -- PostScript fundamentals -- The language -- Evolution -- Encapsulated PostScript -- Fonts -- Font formats -- Composite fonts -- Compatibility with Unicode -- Text extraction -- A simple text extraction program -- Improving the output -- Using PostScript in a digital library.

Portable Document Format: PDF -- Inside a PDF file -- Features of PDF -- Linearized PDF -- Security and PDF documents -- PDF and PostScript -- 4.6 Word-Processor Documents -- Rich Text Format: RTF -- Basic types -- Backward compatibility -- File structure -- Other features -- Using RTF in a digital library -- Native Word formats -- Using native Word in a digital library -- Office Open XML: OOXML -- Open Document format: ODF -- Open Document files -- Formatting -- Using ODF in a digital library -- Scientific documents: LaTeX -- Using LaTeX in a digital library -- 4.7 Other Documents -- Spreadsheets and presentation files -- E-mail -- 4.8 Notes and Sources -- Chapter 5 Multimedia -- 5.1 Introducing Compression and Transforms -- Basic compression techniques -- Transforms -- The Fourier transform -- 5.2 Audio -- Pulse code modulation: PCM -- Variants of PCM -- Early formats: WAV, AIFF, AU -- MPEG audio: MP3 and its siblings -- Post-MP3 formats: AAC, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC -- Replaying audio -- An audio digital library -- 5.3 Images -- Lossless compression: GIF and PNG -- Lossy compression: JPEG -- Progressive refinement -- Archiving images: JPEG 2000 and TIFF -- A digital library of photographs -- Vector graphics images -- 5.4 Video -- Codecs -- Multimedia compression: MPEG -- Inside MPEG -- MPEG-1 -- Mixing media -- MPEG-2 -- MPEG-4 -- High Definition Digital Television -- Proprietary formats -- Streaming -- Ogg Theora -- Using multimedia in a digital library -- A video digital library -- Reflection -- 5.5 Rich Media -- Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language: SMIL -- Adobe Flash -- 5.6 Music -- Musical Instrument Digital Interface: MIDI -- Channel Events -- Meta Events -- System Exclusive Events -- Digital music libraries -- 5.7 Notes and Sources -- Audio -- Images -- Video -- Rich Media -- Music -- Chapter 6 Metadata -- 6.1 Characteristics of Metadata.

6.2 Bibliographic Metadata -- MARC -- MARCXML -- Dublin Core: DC -- Qualified Dublin Core -- Metadata Object Description Schema: MODS -- BibTeX -- EndNote -- 6.3 Metadata for Multimedia -- Image metadata: TIFF -- Image metadata: EXIF, XMP, IPTC, and MIX -- Audio metadata -- Video metadata -- Multimedia metadata: MPEG-7 -- Multimedia application metadata: MPEG-21 -- 6.4 Metadata for Compound Objects -- Resource Description Framework: RDF -- Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard: METS -- Collection-level metadata -- Open Archives Initiative Object Reuse and Exchange: OAI-ORE -- Metadata for education: LOM and SCORM -- Metadata for eResearch -- 6.5 Metadata Quality -- Authority control: Names -- Authority control: Subjects -- Controlling metadata values -- Metadata tools -- 6.6 Extracting Metadata -- Extracting document metadata -- Generic entity extraction -- Bibliographic references -- Language identification -- Acronym extraction -- Key-phrase metadata -- Key-phrase extraction -- Key-phrase indexing -- 6.7 Notes and Sources -- Chapter 7 Interoperability -- 7.1 Z39.50 Protocol -- 7.2 Open Archives Initiative -- OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting: OAI-PMH -- Serving -- Harvesting -- 7.3 Object Identification -- Handles -- Digital object identifiers: DOIs -- OpenURLs -- Persistence -- 7.4 Web Services -- Search/Retrieval via URL: SRU -- 7.5 Authentication and Security -- 7.6 DSpace and Fedora -- DSpace -- Fedora -- 7.7 Notes and Sources -- Chapter 8 Internationalization -- 8.1 Multilingual interfaces and documents -- 8.2 Unicode -- Composite and combining characters -- Unicode character encodings -- UTF-32 -- UTF-16 -- UTF-8 -- Using Unicode in a digital library -- 8.3 Hindi and indic scripts -- ISCII: Indian Script Code for Information Interchange -- Unicode for Indic scripts -- Problems with the adoption of Unicode.

8.4 Word segmentation and sorting -- Segmenting words -- Segmenting words in Thai/Khmer/Lao -- Sorting Chinese text -- 8.5 Notes and sources -- Chapter 9 Visions -- 9.1 Libraries of the future -- Today's visions -- Tomorrow's visions -- Working inside the digital library -- 9.2 Preserving the past -- The problem of preservation -- A sorry tale -- The Domesday Project -- Demise -- Resurrection -- The digital dark ages -- Preservation strategies -- Preservation in practice -- The Internet Archive -- 9.3 Trends in digital libraries -- Mobility: Portable collections -- Knowledge-based information retrieval -- 9.4 Digital libraries for oral cultures -- 9.5 Notes and sources -- Part II Greenstone Digital Library Software -- Chapter 10 Building collections -- 10.1 The Reader's Interface -- The Greenstone digital library -- Exploring the Demo collection -- Browsing -- Searching -- Preferences -- 10.2 The Librarian Interface -- Users and functions -- A walk-through -- Getting started -- Assembling the source material -- Enriching the documents -- Designing the collection -- Building the collection -- Formatting the pages -- Previewing -- Help -- 10.3 Working with Documents -- HTML documents -- Word and PDF files -- Enriching with metadata -- Designing the collection -- Changing the format -- Enhanced Word document handling -- Extracting document structure -- Detecting user-defined styles -- Extracting document properties -- Enhanced PDF document handling -- Trouble-shooting PDF collections -- Switching modes in the Librarian interface -- Splitting PDF documents into sections -- Converting PDF documents to page images -- Working with mixed PDF collections -- Highlighting search terms -- Enhanced HTML document handling -- Extracting metadata -- Extracting document structure -- Metadata for hierarchical documents -- Scaling up -- Examining different file types.

Adding metadata.