Witten, Ian H.2008-11-172008-11-172002Witten, I.H. (2002). Examples of practical digital libraries: collections built internationally using Greenstone. In Digital Libraries: People, Knowledge, and Technology. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 2555, 2002, pp 67-74.https://hdl.handle.net/10289/1358Although 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.”encomputer scienceConference Contribution10.1007/3-540-36227-4_6