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Digital Mathematics Libraries: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly
The idea of a World digital mathematics library (DML) has been around since
the turn of the 21th century. We feel that it is time to make it a reality,
starting in a modest way from successful bricks that have already been built,
but with an ambitious goal in mind. After a brief historical overview of
publishing mathematics, an estimate of the size and a characterisation of the
bulk of documents to be included in the DML, we turn to proposing a model for a
Reference Digital Mathematics Library--a network of institutions where the
digital documents would be physically archived. This pattern based rather on
the bottom-up strategy seems to be more practicable and consistent with the
digital nature of the DML. After describing the model we summarise what can and
should be done in order to accomplish the vision. The current state of some of
the local libraries that could contribute to the global views are described
with more details
Creating digital library collections with Greenstone
The Greenstone digital library software is a comprehensive system for building and distributing digital library collections. It provides a way of organizing information based on metadata and publishing ti on the Internet. This paper introduces Greenstone and explains how librarians use it to create and customize digital library collections. Through an end-user interface, they add documents and metadata to collections, create new collections whose structure mirrors existing ones, and build collections and put them in place for users to view. More advanced users can design and customize new collection structures
JISC Preservation of Web Resources (PoWR) Handbook
Handbook of Web Preservation produced by the JISC-PoWR project which ran from April to November 2008.
The handbook specifically addresses digital preservation issues that are relevant to the UK HE/FE web management communityâ.
The project was undertaken jointly by UKOLN at the University of Bath and ULCC Digital Archives department
An Overview of Electronic Publishing and Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Many knowledge-based organizations are expanding their publishing efforts to include electronic publishing. This article gives evidence of this move and discusses the factors that have been instrumental in promoting electronic publishing. The importance of information stucture and adherence to open standards are emphasized as critical components of digital document management systems. The development and use of Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) and Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) are discussed along with their strengths and weaknesses as tools of electronic publishing. An emerging alternative, Extensible Markup Language (XML), is described as having features that may reduce some of the impediments to producing and managing documents digitally
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