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1998
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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
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1998
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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
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1998
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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...
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1998
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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...
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1998
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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...
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1998
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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...
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1998
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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
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1998
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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
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1998
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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
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1998
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Dynamic Query Result Previews for a Digital Library
Previous models of dynamic querying supported by query previews have focussed on attribute based querying, have required information providers to create preview tables, and have p...
Steve Jones