The last decade a great number of digital library and digital repository systems have been developed and published as open-source software. The variety of available software systems is a factor of confusion when an organization is planning to build a repository infrastructure to host its collections. To simplify the decision process five widely used open-source repository software systems are c...

This paper discusses our approaches to create a digital library on traditional Mongolian script using Unicode. Also we introduce system architecture of a digital library that stores books and materials of historical importance written in traditional Mongolian which contain history of 1,000 years and are important part of Mongolian culture. Specifically, we propose a technique that will allow us...

∗We received many helpful comments from seminar participants at Arizona State University, Cornell, Toulouse School of Economics, UC Berkeley and University of Oxford. The authors gratefully acknowledge contributions from and discussions with Hunt Allcott, Stefano Dellavigna, Steven George, Nick Kuminoff, Brigitte Madrian, Jennifer Potter, Lupe Strickland, Michael Sullivan and Nate Toyama. We al...

The essential quality of information in a digital library is accessibility. Full text search is not enough for some collections, more can be done. Historical collections, for example, contain dates, and it would be useful to historians to be able to search by them. However, these dates occur anywhere within the text of historical documents, and to be searched they must be extracted from the doc...

☆ Thanks to Andrew Foster, Dilip Mookherjee, and J research design. Thanks to Linda Bui, Sonia Bhalotra, Rem pants at Brandeis, the IGC-ISI Conference in New Delh Fletcher School for Law and Diplomacy at Tufts Unive NEUDC 2012, ISI Economic Growth and Development C 2013, PAA 2013, IGC-ISI South Asia Growth Conference 20 to Rema Hanna and Michael Greenstone for sharing th Control Board's (CPCB) ...

A digital library is a collection of services and information objects for storing, accessing, and retrieving digital objects. Automatic text summarization presents salient information in a condensed form suitable for user needs. This thesis amalgamates digital libraries and automatic text summarization by extending the Greenstone Digital Library software suite to include the University of Lethb...