This paper reports on measurements of the NCSTRL digital library taken over a two-year period. We report the growth of the system along two dimensions: number of participating ins...
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 sy...
Steve Jones, Sally Jo Cunningham, Rodger J. McNab,...
When a digital library is decomposed into many geographically distributed repositories,searchefficiencybecomesan issue. Increasing network congestion makes this a compelling issue...
James C. French, Allison L. Powell, Walter R. Crei...
We present a system for searching and classifying U.S. patent documents, based on Inquery. Patents are distributed through hundreds of collections, divided up by general area. The...
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 ...