Chapter 4. Textual documents
The raw material
Documents are the digital library's building blocks. It is time to step down from our high-level discussion of digital libraries—what they are, how they are organized, and what they look like—to nitty-gritty details of how to represent the documents they contain. To do a thorough job for international documents in non-Roman alphabets, we will have to descend even further and look at the representation of the characters that make up textual documents.
Documents are the digital library's building blocks. It is time to step down from our high-level discussion of digital libraries—what they are, how they are organized, and what they look like—to nitty-gritty details of how to represent the documents they ...
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