Managing Gigabytes

The second edition of Managing Gigabytes: Compressing and Indexing Documents and Images by Ian H. Witten, Alistair Moffat, and Timothy C. Bell, was published in May 1999 by Morgan Kaufmann Publishing, San Francisco (now a component of Elsevier Publishing), ISBN 1-55860-570-3.

Information available:

• Publicity brochure for the second edition (PDF file, 15kB)

• Table of contents of the second edition

• Preface to the second edition

• Errata listing for the second edition

• Buy the second edition from Amazon.com
  (Yes, we will receive a small cut from Amazon if you use this link and make a purchase).

• Elsevier (nee Morgan Kaufmann) catalog entry. (Note that the Morgan Kaufmann still have a web presence, but that their page no longer seems to provide access to their full catalog, and gives no information about our book.)

• The last version of the software, mg-1.2.1, dated August 1999. There is no support for this any more, sorry; and to be honest, we wonder why you would bother -- look instead to the Terrier system if you want a public search system.

• Reviews of the first edition (published by Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, 1994)

• Publication details for the first edition

• Just want to search text, and don't want a full-blown indexer? Take a look at seft, a Search Engine for Text: abstract of paper, software.

(Thanks to Art Pollard for the author photograph above).

Links to Other Information

The Arithmetic Coding routines mentioned in Chapter 2, and the compression programs char, word, and bits, are available from http://people.eng.unimelb.edu.au/ammoffat/arith_coder/.

Specifically interested in coding algorithms? Take a look at Compression and Coding Algorithms; that page also links to more software resources.