Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages :
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Presents the Networked Computer Science Technical Reports Library (NCSTRL - pronounced "ancestral"), which is an international collection of computer science technical reports from computer science departments and industrial and government research laboratories. Notes that the NCSTRL collection is distributed among a set of interoperating servers operated by participating institutions. Offers access to a search for documents from the distributed collection. Describes search options and offers links to other information. This server operates at Cornell University.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages :
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Presents the Networked Computer Science Technical Reports Library (NCSTRL) international collection of computer science technical reports from computer science departments and industrial and government research laboratories, made available for noncommercial and educational use by the University of California at Berkeley.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages :
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The Networked Computer Science Technical Reports Library (NCSTRL) is an intern ational collection of computer science technical reports from CS departments and industrial and government research laboratories, made available for non-com mercial and educational use[1]. The overall purpose of the thesis project is to increase the speed of information retrieval within NCSTRL by implementing a selective author server, which would modify queries to be directed to select relevant sites rather than the entire NCSTRL collection. Studying the collection reveals a low distribution of author publications at multiple sites. Comparing the speed of a directed query, a query where specific sites are select to be searched, versus an undirected query, a query where all sites are to be searched, clearly justifies the need for a selective author server to perform this transformation. A directed query performs approximately 2.4 times faster than an undirected query. A Perl script downloads the author information and transforms that data into a text database. The selective author server, implemented in C++, loads this information into a hash table data structure for fast access. When an NCSTRL search involve. The manipulation time of this transformation is an average 4.5 milliseconds, significantly less than the time difference between a directed query and an undirected one. Thus, it is favorable to have a selective author server linked to the NCSTRL search engines an author and has the 'search all o rganizations' button depressed the undirected query is sent to the selective author server for transformation.
Author: Christos Nikolaou Publisher: Springer ISBN: 354049653X Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 904
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Digital Libraries are complex and advanced forms of information systems which extend and augment their physical counterparts by amplifying existing resources and services and enabling development of new kinds of human problem solving and expression. Their complexity arises from the data-rich domain of discourse as well as from extended demands for multi-disciplinary input, involving distributed systems architectures, structured digital documents, collaboration support, human-computer interaction, information filtering, etc. In addition to the broad range of technical issues, ethics and intellectual property rights add to the complication that is normally associated with the development, maintenance, and use of Digital Libraries. The Second European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL’98) builds upon the success of the first of this series of European Conferences on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, held last year in Pisa, Italy, September 1-3, 1997. This series of conferences is partially funded by the TMR Programme of the European Commission and is actively supported and promoted by the European Research Consortium on Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM). The aim is to bring together the different communities involved in the development of Digital Libraries, to review progress and to discuss strategies, research and technological development (RTD) issues, as well as specific topics related to the European context. These communities include professionals from universities, research centres, industry, government agencies, public libraries, etc.
Author: Andreas Barth Publisher: Springer ISBN: 354069790X Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 245
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This book coherently documents the results and experiences of a major digital library pilot effort, the MeDoc project (Multimedia Electronic Documents). This two-year project was initiated by the German Informatics Society (GI) and involved authors, publishers, librarians, and computer science departments. The prototype distributed digital library system developed during the initiative was operated in a nationwide trial for several months. The book presents the technical and operational results achieved during the project as well as input from foreign digital library activities. Besides professionals active in the area of digital library research and design, this book addresses librarians and others engaged in scientific publishing.
Author: Costantino Thanos Publisher: Springer ISBN: 354045747X Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 680
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ECDL 2002 was the 6th conference in the series of European Conferences on Research and Advanced Technologies for Digital Libraries. Following previous events in Pisa (1997), Heraklion (1998), Paris (1999), Lisbon (2000), and Da- stadt (2001), this year ECDL was held in Rome. ECDL 2002 contributed, - gether with the previous conferences, to establishing ECDL as the major - ropean forum focusing on digital libraries and associated technical, practical, and social issues. ECDL 2002 continued the tradition already established by the previous conferences in meeting the needs of a large and diverse constituency, which includes researchers, practitioners, educators, policy makers, and users. The focus of ECDL 2002 was on underlying principles, methods, systems, and tools to build and make available e?ective digital libraries to end users. Architecture, metadata, collection building, web archiving, web technologies,- books, OAI applications, preservation, navigation, query languages, audio video retrieval, multimedia-mixed media, user studies and evaluation, humanities, and digital libraries were some of the key issues addressed. An international Program Committee was set up composed of 61 members, with representatives from 25 countries. A total of 145 paper submissions, 15 poster submissions, and 18 proposals for demos were received. Each paper was evaluated by 3 referees and 42 full papers and 6 short papers of high quality were selected for presentation.
Author: Serge Abiteboul Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3540481559 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 505
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libaries, ECDL'99, held in Paris, France in September 1999. The 26 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 124 submissions. The book is divided in topical sections on image categorization and access, audio and video in digital libraries, information retrieval, user adaptation, knowledge sharing, cross language issues, case studies, and modelling, accessability and connectedness.
Author: Jose Borbinha Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3540452680 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 528
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ECDL2000, the Fourth European Conference on Research and Advanced Te- nology for Digital Libraries, is being held this year in Lisbon, Portugal, following previous events in Pisa (1997), Heraklion (1998), and Paris (1999). One major goal of the ECDL conference series has been to draw information professionals, stakeholders, and user communities from both the research world and from - dustry into a discussion of the alternative technologies, policies, and scenarios for global digital libraries. The success of previous conferences makes them a hard act to follow. The eld of digital libraries draws on a truly diverse set of scienti c and technical disciplines. In the past three years, moreover, global cooperation on research and development has emerged as an urgent priority, particularly in the new European Framework Programme and in the Digital Library Initiative in the United States. Because of this diversity, the eld is perhaps still struggling for an identity. But this struggle for identity is itself a source of energy and creativity. P- ticipants in this eld feel themselves to be part of a special community, with special people. Each of us may claim expertise on a narrow issue, with speci c projects, but the choices we make and the methods we use in local solutions can have unforeseen impacts within a growing universe of interconnected resources.
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