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ERCIMDL
1998
Springer
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An Analysis of Usage of a Digital Library
As experimental digital library testbeds gain wider acceptance and develop significant user bases, it becomes important to investigate the ways in which users interact with the sys...
Steve Jones, Sally Jo Cunningham, Rodger J. McNab
DL
1998
Springer
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Query Performance for Tightly Coupled Distributed Digital Libraries
We consider a digital library distributed in a tightly coupled environment. The library is indexed by inverted files and the vector space model is used as ranking strategy. Using ...
Berthier A. Ribeiro-Neto, Ramurti A. Barbosa
DL
1998
Springer
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Making Metadata: A Study of Metadata Creation for a Mixed Physical-Digital Collection
Metadata is an important way of creating order in emerging distributed digital library collections. This paper presents an analysis of ethnographic data gathered in a university l...
Catherine C. Marshall
DL
1998
Springer
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Digital Library Information Appliances
Although digital libraries are intended to support education and knowledge work, current digital library interfaces are narrowly focused on retrieval. Furthermore, they are design...
Bill N. Schilit, Morgan N. Price, Gene Golovchinsk...
DL
1998
Springer
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An Agent-Based Approach to the Construction of Floristic Digital Libraries
This paper describes an agent-assisted approach to the construction of floristic digital libraries, which consist of very large botanical data repositories and related services. W...
J. Alfredo Sánchez, Cristina A. Lópe...
DL
1998
Springer
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SONIA: A Service for Organizing Networked Information Autonomously
The recent explosion of on-line information in Digital Libraries and on the World Wide Web has given rise to a number of query-based search engines and manually constructed topica...
Mehran Sahami, Salim Yusufali, Michelle Q. Wang Ba...
DL
1998
Springer
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Practical Application of Existing Hypermedia Standards and Tools
In order for multimedia presentations to be stored, accessed and played from a large library they should not be encoded as final form presentations, since these consume storage sp...
Lloyd Rutledge, Jacco van Ossenbruggen, Lynda Hard...
DL
1998
Springer
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Making Global Digital Libraries Work: Collection Services, Connectivity Regions, and Collection Views
There are many technical challenges in designing the architecture of globally-distributed, federated digital libraries. This paper focuses on the problem of global resource discov...
Carl Lagoze, David Fielding, Sandra Payette
DL
1998
Springer
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Usage Analysis of a Digital Library
We analyse transaction logs for a large full-text document collection for Computer Science researchers. We report insights gained from this analysis and identify resulting search ...
Steve Jones, Sally Jo Cunningham, Rodger J. McNab
DL
1998
Springer
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Archival Storage for Digital Libraries
We propose an architecture for Digital Library Repositories that assures long-term archival storage of digital objects. The architecture is formed by a federation of independent b...
Arturo Crespo, Hector Garcia-Molina