How to Build a Digital Library

Ian H. Witten, a professor of computer science at the University of Waikato in New Zealand, directs the New Zealand Digital Library research project. He received an MA in Mathematics from Cambridge University, an MSc in Computer Science from the University of Calgary, and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Essex University. Dr. Witten has published widely on digital libraries, machine learning, text compression, hypertext, speech synthesis and signal processing, and computer typography and has written several books David Bainbridge is a senior lecturer in computer science at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. He graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1991 as the class medalist in Computer Science and holds a PhD in Optical Music Recognition from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. An active member of the New Zealand Digital Library project, he manages the group's digital music library, Meldex, and has collaborated with several United Nations Agencies, the BBC, and various public librariesWitten, Ian H. is the author of 'How to Build a Digital Library', published 2002 under ISBN 9780613915830 and ISBN 0613915836.