025.0 Beyond
Information Retrieval: Ways to Provide Content in Context
Article focusing on aspects of information retrieval including
automatic extraction of key concepts or names, collaborative filtering,
visualisation techniques, and classification and clustering. Topics are
discussed in relation to information retrieval history and the
development of the Web.
025.0 Bits
and Bytes and Still a Lot of Paper: Astronomy Libraries and Librarians
in the Age of Electronic Publishing
Article documenting the benefits and drawbacks of digital libraries.
Electronic publications and their impact on libraries are discussed,
along with the role of librarians in an electronic environment is
evaluated.
025.0 Cross-Searching
Subject Gateways: The Query Routing and Forward Knowledge
Approach
Collection of Welsh language resources catering for learners of all
abilities. Information includes a bibliography, software packages,
magazines, grammar guides, and spelling and vocabulary checkers.
025.0 Internet
Pilot to Terminology
Links to databases of terms covering science and technology, leisure
and entertainment, law, administration, and commerce. Each glossary
comprises terms of value for information retrieval in a particular
subject field.
025.0 Middleware
for Digital Libraries
Article discussing the use of intermediate software (middleware) to
support distributed applications, using the provision of digital library
services by universities as an example of a domain that poses many of
the problems typical to this area.
025.0 Modeling
Users’ Successive Searches in Digital Environments
A National Science Foundation and British Library funded study into
the nature, manifestations, and behaviour of successive searching by
users in digital environments, and an attempt to derive criteria for use
in the design of information retrieval interfaces and systems supporting
successive searching behaviour.
025.0 New
Search Tools for Multidisciplinary Digital Libraries
Article which reviews the development of search tools that deliver
multidisciplinary results, but also preserve the metadata and finding
aids of discrete databases, with specific reference to four systems:
KnowledgeCite Library, Database Advisor, Pharos, and Northern Light.
025.0 SDL: Search-engine for
Digital Libraries
The SDL attempts to provide an OAI-PMH Harvester service in the
field of Library and Information Science. It not only covers various LIS
digital libraries, but also open access LIS Journals.
025.04 Searching
for Parts and Services on the Web
Document discussing the difficulties in Web based information
retrieval due to the diversity and largely textual nature of Internet
resources. A retrieval method employing statistical correlation analysis
techniques is introduced, and its ability to locate parts and services
on the Web is evaluated.
025.0 Selecting
Libraries, Selecting Documents, Selecting Data
Paper examining the selection of information within a digital
library environment at three levels: selecting which library
(repository) to look in, selecting which document(s) within a library to
look at, and selecting fragments of data (text, numeric data, images)
from within a document. Similarities and differences between these three
levels are discussed.
025.0 Serving
the Remote User: Reference Service in the Digital Environment
Article which aims to provide a perspective on the information
seeker in the digital environment as one whose need for a personalised,
human-delivered reference service is greater than ever. It suggests new
organisational structures that give the reference librarian greater
visibility and value.
025.0 Social
Functions of Digital Libraries: Designing Information Resources for
Virtual Communities
Conference paper (January 1999) which explores the nature of digital
libraries as social institutions, and suggests an agenda for action for
librarians and information science. It asserts that the future of
libraries will be determined more by intellectual property policy than
by technology, as it is not information per se that is valuable, but the
modes of access and use of information by individuals and groups that
create value; and these in turn are controlled by intellectual property
policy.
025.0 Using
Digital Libraries as a Community Hall for Worldwide Information Spiral
Development
Paper describing the concept of a digital library from the user’s
perspective, based on information flow and organisation. An explanation
is given using a three-layer model of information distribution, focusing
on the information provider, information broker and information user.
