How to Build a Digital Library, Second Edition (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Multimedia Information and Systems)
by Ian H. Witten, David Bainbridge and David M. Nichols
English | 2009 | ISBN: 0123748577 | 628 pages | PDF | 15.25 MB

Anyone who has ever done an Internet search will benefit from understanding some of the concepts underlying the structures of search engines. The section titled "Presentation: User Interfaces" is particularly enlightening in its descriptions of how various search engines can treat the same search differently. For example, this section contains easily understandable explanations of the importance of language stemming using morphological reduction and of case folding. For librarians wanting to try their hands at creating a digital library that can stand alone or be accessible via the Internet, the authors suggest the freely available Greenstone software, for Windows or UNIX operating systems.