This issue of
Communications highlights some of the many projects underway for the creation or enhancement of digital libraries. At the moment, no one seems to think there will be only one gargantuan digital library to sate the …
Pamela Samuelson
Pages 15-ff.
Edward A. Fox, Robert M. Akscyn, Richard K. Furuta, John J. Leggett
Pages 22-28
Effective information access involves rich interactions between users and information residing in diverse locations. Users seek and retrieve information from the sources—for example, file serves, databases, and digital libraries—and …
Ramana Rao, Jan O. Pedersen, Marti A. Hearst, Jock D. Mackinlay, Stuart K. Card, Larry Masinter, Per-Kristian Halvorsen, George C. Robertson
Pages 29-39
Recent advances in compression and indexing techniques have yielded a qualitative change in the feasibility of large-scale full-text retrieval.
Timothy C. Bell, Alistair Moffat, Ian H. Witten, Justin Zobel
Pages 41-42
The Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval (CIIR) was started at the University of Massachusetts two years ago to do research and technology transfer in the area of distributed, text-based information systems. The CIIR
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W. Bruce Croft
Pages 42-43
With the advent of the World-Wide Web, computing professionals have eagerly pursued the idea of moving from a paper-based technical report service to one that employs networked information systems. Many departments keep some
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Edward A. Fox
Pages 43-44
Wide Area Technical Report Service (WATERS) is a distributed database of computer science technical reports. Contributors are departments of computer science that make their reports, stored locally at their sites, available through …
James C. French, Edward A. Fox, Kurt Maly, Alan L. Selman
Page 45
Spatial data is complex data composed of hundreds or thousands of attribute/value pairs that define logical, physical, and abstract geographic features. It has traditionally been available to researchers and other users as paper …
Charles Kacmar, Dean Jue
Pages 46-47
As one of the five universities participating in the ARPA-sponsored Computer Science Technical Report project, we at Cornell have developed a digital library architecture called Dienst. Dienst is a protocol and implementation …
Carl Lagoze, James R. Davis
Page 47
One of the main goals in developing digital libraries is to provide users with opportunities for accessing and using information in highly flexible and user-oriented ways not available in current information repositories. This …
Christoph Hüser, Klaus Reichenberger, Lothar Rostek, Norbert A. Streitz
Pages 49-51
The University of California CD-ROM Information System replaces the equivalent of 260,000 books of published federal statistics with a CD-ROM-based online information system. The size of this database is currently 270 CD-ROMs …
Deane Merrill, Nathan Parker, Fredric Gey, Chris Stuber
Pages 51-52
Project Envision is an early NSF-funded digital library effort to develop a multimedia collection of computer science literature with full-text searching and full-content retrieval capabilities. Envision was launched in 1991
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Lenwood S. Heath, Deborah Hix, Lucy T. Nowell, William C. Wake, Guillermo A. Averboch, Eric Labow, Scott A. Guyer, Dennis J. Brueni, Robert K. France, Kaushai Dalal, Edward A. Fox
Pages 52-53
The CORE project is an electronic library of primary journal articles in chemistry, containing about five years of twenty primary journals published by the American Chemical Society (about 425,000 pages). Unlike many digital
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Richard Entlich, Lorrin Garson, Michael Lesk, Lorraine Normore, Stuart Weibel
Page 54
It takes many different kinds of contributions to create a viable research community, and many dedicated people have made major contributions in the past decade to make things like the NSF Digital Libraries initiative happen. …
Gary M. Olson
Page 55
The Informedia Digital Video Library Project is developing new technologies for creating full-content search and retrieval digital video libraries. Working in collaboration with WQED Pittsburgh, the project is creating a testbed …
M. Christel, T. Kanade, M. Mauldin, R. Reddy, M. Sirbu, S. Stevens, H. Wactlar
Pages 57-58
The Stanford Integrated Digital Library Project will develop enabling technologies for an integrated “virtual” library to provide an array of new services and uniform access to networked information collections. The Integrated …
CORPORATE The Stanford Digital Libraries Group
Pages 59-60
For digital libraries to succeed, we must abandon the traditional notion of “library” altogether. The reason is as follows: The digital “library” will be a collection of distributed information services; producers of material …
Robert Wilensky
Page 60
The goal of the Alexandria Digital Library Project is to develop a distributed system that provides a comprehensive range of library services for collections of spatially indexed and graphical information. While such collections …
Terence R. Smith, James Frew
Pages 61-62
The University of Illinois is building a large-scale digital library testbed, planned to grow to thousands of users and thousands of documents, with the goal of bringing professional quality search and display to Internet information …
Bruce Schatz
Pages 62-63
The University of Michigan Digital Library Project (NSF-UMDL) is a multidisciplinary collaboration among faculty and staff throughout the University of Michigan. Initial use and evaluation of the NSF-UMDL will take place in science …
Laurie Crum
Pages 63-64
The British Library holds over 18 million volumes and is one of the world's greatest treasure houses of written information from every age and culture. In 1993 it published its
Strategic Objectives for the Year 2000, which made …
Jonathan Purday
Pages 65-66
The Library of Congress has been actively seeking gift funds to continue the digitization efforts begun five years ago by its American Memory pilot project, which has successfully digitized more than 210,000 items. Many of these …
Herbert S. Becker
Page 66
Libraries have long served crucial roles in learning. The first great library, in Alexandria 2,000 years ago, was really the first university. It consisted of a zoo and various cultural artifacts in addition to much of the ancient …
Gary Marchionini, Hermann Maurer
Pages 67-75
What are digital libraries, how should they be designed, how will they be used, and what relationship will they bear to what we now call “libraries”? Although we cannot hope to answer all these crucial questions in this short …
David M. Levy, Catherine C. Marshall
Pages 77-84
A digital library is popularly viewed an electronic version of a public library. But replacing paper by electronic storage leads to three major differences: storage in digital form, direct communication to obtain material, and …
Gio Wiederhold
Pages 85-96
For the past three years, the ACM Publications Board has been developing its vision for the future of publication in the electronic age and a program to achieve it. I am pleased to present that plan here. We envisage a diminishing …
Peter J. Denning, Bernard Rous
Pages 97-109
hospitable as the traditional ones.
Peter J. Denning
Page 138
