Digital Libraries Based on Full-Text Retrieval

: Because digital libraries are expensive to create and maintain, Internet analogs of public libraries--reliable, quality, community services--have only recently begun to appear. A serious obstacle to their creation is the provision of appropriate cataloguing information. Without a database of titles, authors and subjects, it is hard to offer the searching and browsing facilities normally available in physical libraries. Full-text retrieval provides a way of approximating these services without a concomitant investment of human resources. This presentation will discuss the indexing, collection and maintenance processes, and the retrieval interface, to public digital libraries. Creating a publicly-available digital library presents some interesting challenges, particularly if the library is intended for serious professional work rather than casual browsing. First, the raw material: the collection must comprise text that can be placed in the public domain. Second, the selection of materi...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1996
• Where: WEBNET
• Authors: Ian H. Witten, Craig G. Nevill-Manning, Sally Jo Cunningham
• Keywords: Appropriate Cataloguing Information, Digital Libraries, Publicly-available Digital Library, WEBNET 1996, WEBNET 2001