Digital Libraries - Current Issues

Download or read book Digital Libraries - Current Issues written by Nabil R. Adam and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1995-04-19 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the first book coherently summarizing the current issues in digital libraries research, design and management. It presents, in a homogeneous way, thoroughly revised versions of 15 papers accepted for the First International Workshop on Digital Libraries, DL '94, held at Rutgers University in May 1994; in addition there are two introductory chapters provided by the volume editors, as well as a comprehensive bibliography listing 262 entries. Besides introductory aspects, the topics addressed are administration and management, information retrieval and hypertext, classification and indexing, and prototypes and applications. The volume is intended for researchers and design professionals in the field, as well as for experts from libraries administration and scientific publishing.