How to Build a Digital Library (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Multimedia Information and Systems) - Softcover

Witten, Ian H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1558607900 ISBN 13: 9781558607903

Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann, 2003

Synopsis

Given modern society's need to control its everincreasing 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 libraryno matter how large or small. Two internationally recognized experts provide a fully developed, stepbystep method, as well as the software that makes it all possible. How to Build a Digital Library is the perfectly selfcontained resource for individuals, agencies, and institutions wishing to put this powerful tool to work in their burgeoning information treasuries.

About this title

About the Author:

Ian H. Witten is a professor of computer science at the University of Waikato in New Zealand. He directs the New Zealand Digital Library research project. His research interests include information retrieval, machine learning, text compression, and programming by demonstration. He received an MA in Mathematics from Cambridge University, England; an MSc in Computer Science from the University of Calgary, Canada; and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Essex University, England. He is a fellow of the ACM and of the Royal Society of New Zealand. He has published widely on digital libraries, machine learning, text compression, hypertext, speech synthesis and signal processing, and computer typography. He has written several books, the latest being Managing Gigabytes (1999) and Data Mining (2000), both from Morgan Kaufmann. David Bainbridge is a senior lecturer in Computer Science at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. He holds a PhD in Optical Music Recognition from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand where he studied as a Commonwealth Scholar. Since moving to Waikato in 1996 he has continued to broadened his interest in digital media, while retaining a particular emphasis on music. An active member of the New Zealand Digital Library project, he manages the group's digital music library, Meldex, and has collaborated with several United Nations Agencies, the BBC and various public libraries. David has also worked as a research engineer for Thorn EMI in the area of photo-realistic imaging and graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1991 as the class medalist in Computer Science.

About this edition

• Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1558607900
• ISBN 13: 9781558607903
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 552