Copyright and digital libraries
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…
April 1995 - Vol. 38 No. 4
Features
Rich interaction in the digital library
Effective information access involves rich interactions between users and information residing in diverse locations. Users seek and retrieve information from the…
The MG retrieval system: compressing for space and speed
Recent advances in compression and indexing techniques have yielded a qualitative change in the feasibility of large-scale full-text retrieval.
NSF Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval
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…
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…
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…
Spatial data is complex data composed of hundreds or thousands of attribute/value pairs that define logical, physical, and abstract geographic features. It has…
Dienst: an architecture for distributed document libraries
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…
Knowledge-based editing and visualization for hypermedia encyclopedias
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…
The University of California CD-ROM Information System
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…
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…
Making a digital library: the chemistry online retrieval experiment
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…
An appreciation of Laurence Rosenberg
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…
Informedia Digital Video Library
The Informedia Digital Video Library Project is developing new technologies for creating full-content search and retrieval digital video libraries. Working in…
The Stanford Digital Library Project
The Stanford Integrated Digital Library Project will develop enabling technologies for an integrated “virtual” library to provide an array of new services and…
UC Berkeley’s Digital Library project
For digital libraries to succeed, we must abandon the traditional notion of “library” altogether. The reason is as follows: The digital “library”…
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…
Building the interspace: the Illinois Digital Library Project
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…
University of Michigan Digital Library Project
The University of Michigan Digital Library Project (NSF-UMDL) is a multidisciplinary collaboration among faculty and staff throughout the University of Michigan. Initial…
The British Library’s initiatives for access projects
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…
Library of Congress Digital Library effort
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…
The roles of digital libraries in teaching and learning
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…
Going digital: a look at assumptions underlying digital libraries
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…
Digital libraries, value, and productivity
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…
The ACM electronic publishing plan
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…
