Exploring the Computing Literature with Visualization and Stepping Stones & Pathways
An alternative interpretation of queries involves splitting a query into parts that cover different but connected aspects of the information needed.
Edward A. Fox
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Digital Libraries: Introduction
Digital libraries have evolved rapidly over the past decade and are now as varied as physical libraries. Although digital libraries have been driven mainly by developments in technology, progress has also been made in addressing the intellectual and social issues involved in sharing knowledge in digital forms. Building digital libraries involves the integration of complex […]
World-Wide Web and computer science reports
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 version of their reports on an FTP server to help with this process. To facilitate access to CS reports a number of sites have set up lists of these archives (see sidebar).
Envision: a user-centered database of computer science literature
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 in accordance with the ACM Publications Board's plans for encouraging research studies to develop an electronic archive for computer science.
Wide Area Technical Report Service: technical reports online
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 World-Wide Web and a WAIS search engine. By using WATERS, anyone with access to the Internet can, using a client such as Mosaic browse, search, obtain abstract and bibliographic information, and retrieve technical reports online. The latter assumes that the user's WWW client is set up to launch viewers such as ghostview for Postscript files, xdvi for dvi files, and xtiff for TIFF page images.
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