Publication

1999-05-15 - Morgan Kaufmann

Language

English

Word Count

129,750 words, Guess

Page Count

519 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

and 3 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number99026345
  • LibraryThing84105
  • Goodreads942576

Classifications

  • LCCTA1637.W58 1999

Description

"In this fully updated second edition of the highly acclaimed Managing Gigabytes, authors Witten, Moffat, and Bell continue to provide unparalleled coverage of state-of-the-art techniques for compressing and indexing data. Whatever your field, if you work with large quantities of information, this book is essential reading - an authoritative theoretical resource and a practical guide to meeting the toughest storage and access challenges. It covers the latest developments in compression and indexing and their application on the Web and in digital libraries. It also details dozens of powerful techniques supported by mg, the authors' own system for compressing, storing, and retrieving text, images, and textual images. Mg's source code is freely available on the Web."--Jacket.

Description

In this fully updated second edition of the highly acclaimed Managing Gigabytes, authors Witten, Moffat, and Bell continue to provide unparalleled coverage of state-of-the-art techniques for compressing and indexing data. Whatever your field, if you work with large quantities of information, this book is essential reading - an authoritative theoretical resource and a practical guide to meeting the toughest storage and access challenges. It covers the latest developments in compression and indexing and their application on the Web and in digital libraries. It also details dozens of powerful techniques supported by mg, the authors' own system for compressing, storing, and retrieving text, images, and textual images. Mg's source code is freely available on the Web.

First Sentence

"In 1911, Professor Lane Cooper published a concordance of William Wordsworth's poetry so that scholars could readily locate words in which they were interested."

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Managing Gigabytes: Compressing and Indexing Documents and Images (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Multimedia Information and Systems)HardcoverMorgan Kaufmann1999-05-15

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