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Research and Advances May 1 2001

Greenstone is a comprehensive system for constructing and presenting collections of thousands or millions of documents, including text, images, audio, and video. Greenstone libraries contain many collections, individually organized, though they bear a strong family resemblance. Easily maintained, collections can be augmented and rebuilt automatically. Greenstone constructs full-text indexes from the document text and from […]

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Research and Advances May 1 2001

The Promise of Digital Libraries in Developing Countries

Although knowledge is critical for development, few developing countries are participating in the information revolution. Just as industrialization and globalization have increased the gulf between the haves and have-nots, so information and communications technology is creating a chasm between the knows and know-nots [5]. For dissemination of humanitarian information, traditional publishing and distribution mechanisms have […]

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