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1 How to Build a Digital Library Ian H. Witten & David Bainbridge Contents Preface Acknowledgements i iv 1. Orientation: The world of digital libraries 1 One: Supporting human development 1 Two: Pushing on the frontiers of science 1 Three: Preserving a traditional culture 2 Four: Exploring popular music 2 The scope of digital libraries Libraries and digital libraries The changing face of libraries 5 In the beginning 6 The information explosion 7 The Alexandrian principle 9 Early technodreams 9 The library catalog 10 The changing nature of books Digital libraries in developing countries 12 Disseminating humanitarian information 12 Disaster relief 13 Preserving indigenous culture 13 Locally produced information 14 The technological infrastructure The Greenstone software The pen is mighty: wield it wisely 18 Copyright 18 Collecting from the Web 19 Illegal and harmful material 23 Cultural sensitivity Notes and sources Preliminaries: Sorting out the ingredients Sources of material 2 Ideology 2 Converting an existing library 3 Building a new collection 4 Virtual libraries Bibliographic organization 7 Objectives of a bibliographic system 7 Bibliographic entities Modes of access Digitizing documents 16

2 Scanning 16 Optical character recognition 17 Interactive OCR systems 19 Page handling 22 Planning an image digitization project 23 Inside an OCR shop 24 An example project Notes and sources Presentation: User interfaces Presenting documents 3 Hierarchically structured documents 3 Plain, unstructured text documents 4 Page images 6 Page images and extracted text 7 Audio and photographic images 8 Video 9 Music 9 Foreign languages Presenting metadata Searching 13 Types of query 14 Case-folding and stemming 16 Phrase searching 18 Different query interfaces Browsing 22 Browsing alphabetical lists 23 Ordering lists of words in Chinese 23 Browsing by date 25 Hierarchical classification structures Phrase browsing 26 A phrase browsing interface 26 Keyphrases Browsing using extracted metadata 29 Acronyms 29 Language identification Notes and sources Documents: The raw material Representing characters 3 Unicode 4 The Unicode character set 5 Composite and combining characters 6 Unicode character encodings 8 Hindi and related scripts 10 Using Unicode in a digital library Representing documents 14 Plain text 14 Indexing 15 Word segmentation 17

3 4.3. Page description languages: PostScript and PDF 19 PostScript 20 Fonts 23 Text extraction 25 Using PostScript in a digital library 28 Portable Document Format: PDF 29 PDF and PostScript Word-processor documents 33 Rich Text Format 34 Native Word formats 38 Latex format Representing images 40 Lossless image compression: GIF and PNG 41 Lossy image compression: JPEG 43 Progressive refinement Representing audio and video 48 Multimedia compression: MPEG 48 MPEG video 50 MPEG audio 51 Mixing media 52 Other multimedia formats 53 Using multimedia in a digital library Notes and sources Markup and metadata: Elements of organization Hypertext markup language 3 Basic HTML 4 Using HTML in a digital library Extensible markup language XML 6 Development of markup and stylesheet languages 7 The XML metalanguage 8 Parsing XML 10 Using XML in a digital library Presenting marked up documents 11 Cascaded style sheets: CSS 12 Extensible stylesheet language: XSL Bibliographic metadata 20 MARC 20 Dublin Core 21 BibTeX 23 Refer Metadata for images and multimedia 24 Image metadata: TIFF 25 Multimedia metadata: MPEG Extracting metadata 28 Extracting document metadata 29 Generic entity extraction 29 Bibliographic references 30 Language identification 31 Acronym extraction 32 Keyphrase extraction 33 Phrase hierarchies Notes and sources 38

4 6. Construction: Building collections Why Greenstone? 2 What it does 2 How to use it Using the Collector 6 Creating a new collection 8 Working with existing collections 11 Document formats Walkthrough 13 Getting started 14 Making a framework for the collection 14 Importing the documents 15 Building the indexes 16 Installing the collection Importing and building 17 Files and directories 18 Object identifiers 19 Plugins 20 The import process 21 The build process Greenstone archive documents 24 Document metadata 25 Inside the documents Collection configuration file 26 Default configuration file 26 Subcollections and supercollections Getting the most out of your documents 29 Plugins 29 Classifiers 34 Format statements Building collections graphically Notes and sources Delivery: How Greenstone works Users, processes and protocols 1 Processes 2 The null protocol implementation 2 The Corba protocol implementation Preliminaries 3 The macro language 3 The collection information database Responding to user requests 10 Performing a search 11 Retrieving a document 12 Browsing a hierarchical classifier 13 Generating the home page 13 Using the protocol 14 Actions 14

5 7.4. Operational aspects 15 Configuring the receptionist 16 Configuring the site Notes and sources Interoperability: Standards and protocols More markup 2 Names 2 Links 4 Types Resource description 9 Collection-level metadata Document exchange 12 Open ebook Query languages 15 Common command language 16 XML Query Protocols 20 Z Supporting the Z39.50 protocol 22 The Open Archives Initiative 22 Supporting the OAI protocol Research protocols 25 Dienst 25 Simple digital library interoperability protocol 26 Translating between protocols 27 Discussion Notes and sources Visions: Future, past, and present Libraries of the future 2 Today s visions 2 Tomorrow s visions 3 Working inside the digital library Preserving the past 6 The problem of preservation 6 A tale of preservation in the digital era 7 The digital dark ages 8 Preservation strategies Generalized documents: a challenge for the present 12 Digital libraries of music 12 Other media 14 Generalized documents in Greenstone 16 Digital libraries for oral cultures Notes and sources 19 References 1 Glossary of terms 10 Appendix A Installing and operating Greenstone 16

6 A.1 Installation procedure 17 Windows 17 Unix 19 How to find Greenstone 21 Testing and troubleshooting 22 Greenstone collections 22 Associated software 23 A.2 Setting up the web server 24 Apache web server 24 Security 26 PWS and IIS web servers 26 File permissions 27 A.3 Managing your site 27 Personalizing the Greenstone home page 27 Redirecting a URL to Greenstone 28 Administrative facility 28 Configuration files and logs 29 User management 29 Technical information 30 Appendix B Greenstone source code 36 B.1 Foundations 36 Text_t object 36 Library code 37 Protocol API 38 B.2 Collection server 38 Search object 39 Source object 40 Filter object 40 Collection server code 41 B.3 Receptionist 42 Actions 42 Formatting 44 Macro language 44 Receptionist code 45 B.4 Initialization 48

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