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Although the field of digital libraries is still young, digital library collections have been built around the world and are being deployed on numerous public web sites. But what is a digital library, exactly? In many respects the best way to characterize the notion is by extension, in terms of actual examples, rather than by intension as in a conventional definition. In a very real sense, digital libraries are whatever people choose to call by the term “digital library.”
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Witten, I.H., Bainbridge, D. and Boddie, S. (2001) Power to the people: end-user building of digital library collections. Proc ACM Digital Libraries, Roanoke, VA.
Witten, I.H. and Bainbridge, D. (2003) How to build a digital library. Morgan Kaufmann, San Francisco, CA.
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Witten, I.H. (2002). Examples of Practical Digital Libraries: Collections Built Internationally Using Greenstone. In: Lim, E.P., et al. Digital Libraries: People, Knowledge, and Technology. ICADL 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2555. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36227-4_6
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