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Building the interspace: the Illinois Digital Library Project

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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 services. Concurrently, research is designing and implementing a prototype of the Interspace, a vision of what the Internet will evolve into where the distributed network of interconnected machines is replaced by a distributed space of interlinked information.

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