Understanding Digital Libraries

Michael Lesk (Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA)

Understanding Digital Libraries
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Elsevier Science & Technology
Country
United States
Published
20 January 2005
Pages
456
ISBN
9781558609242

Understanding Digital Libraries

Michael Lesk (Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA)

7 ½ X 9 ¼ in Chapter 1 - Evolution of Libraries 1.1 Why Digital Libraries? 1.2 History of Libraries 1 .3 Vannevar Bush 1.4 Computer Technology 1.5 E arly Language Processing 1.6 The Internet and the Web 1.7 Summary

Chapter 2 - Text Documents 2.1 Computer Typesetting 2. 2 Text Formats 2.3 Ways of Searching 2.4 Web S earching 2.5 Thesauri 2.6 Statistical Language Processing 2.7 Document Conversion 2.8 Summar y

Chapter 3 - Images of Pages 3.1 Scanning 3.2 Image Formats
3.3 Display Requirements 3.4 Indexing Images of Pages 3.5 Shared Text/Image Systems 3.6 Image Storage vs. Book Storage 3.7 Large Scale Projects 3.8 Sum mary

Chapter 4 - Multimedia Storage a nd Retrieval 4.1 Sound Formats: Vinyl, Tape, and C

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