Digital Libraries. Research and Technology Advances

This book constitutes a carefully arranged selection of papers presented at the Forum on Research and Technology Advances in Digital Libraries, ADL'95, held in McLean, Virginia, USA in May 1995.
Besides 15 revised refereed technical contributions, the book presents four invited survey papers by key persons heading institutions and projects essentially advancing the state of the art: France Cordova (NASA), James H. Billington (The Library of Congress), Raj Reddy (CMU), and Larry Smarr (NCSA, University of Illinois). The technical papers are organized in topical sections on visualization, document handling and information retrieval, network-based information and resource discovery, and design issues and prototyping.

Communicating NASA's science to the public.- The library of congress's national digital library program.- The Universal Library: Intelligent agents and information on demand.- Building a scalable America.- Video as scholarly material in the digital library.- Digital libraries for electronic news.- WebJournal: Visualization of a Web Journey.- Uniform structured document handling using a constraint-based object approach.- Digital software and data repositories for support of scientific computing.- Semantic hypermedia retrieval in digital libraries.- Fuzzy full-text searches in OCR databases.- Data discovery in large scale heterogeneous and autonomous databases.- An intelligent agent for the K-12 educational community.- Interface issues for interactive multimedia documents.- Searching and discovery of resources in digital libraries.- The Almaden distributed digital library system.- Alexandria digital library: Rapid prototype and metadata schema.- The ELINOR electronic library.- Dienst: Building a production technical report server.