Digital Libraries in Computer Science: The MeDoc Approach

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-VIII

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2. The MeDoc digital library project: Its goals and major achievements

   • A. Barth, M. Breu, A. Brüggemann-Klein, A. Endres, A. de Kemp

   Pages 1-12

3. The MeDoc system — A digital publication and reference service for computer science

   • D. Boles, M. Dreger, K. Großjohann, C. Haber, A. Kusserow, S. Lohrum et al.

   Pages 13-19

4. Design and implementation of the MeDoc fulltext system

   • J. Meyer, H. -J. Appelrath

   Pages 21-33

5. Conception of the user agent — The user interface of the MeDoc-system

   • D. Boles, A. Kusserow, G. Möller, H. -J. Appelrath, D. Fellner

   Pages 35-49

6. Access to bibliographic data bases — The provider agents in MeDoc

   • D. Menke, C. Gnörlich, H. Helbig

   Pages 51-66

7. Provider selection — Design and implementation of the Medoc Broker

   • M. Dreger, N. Fuhr, K. Großjohann, S. Lohrum

   Pages 67-78

8. Query transformation for heterogeneous provider systems in Medoc

   • K. Großjohann, D. Menke

   Pages 79-87

9. The MeDoc communication protocol

   • Markus Dreger, Stefan Lohrum, Peter Müller

   Pages 89-101

10. The MeDoc library: Security aspects

    • A. Brüggemann-Klein, C. Haber

    Pages 103-114

11. Cost models and accounting in MeDoc

    • R. Weber, M. Breu, A. Endres

    Pages 115-126

12. Ariadne, an interactive navigation and search system for computer science information on the world-wide web

    • M. Dreger, S. Lohrum, H. Schweppe, C. D. Ziegler

    Pages 127-143

13. Grey literature and multiple collections in NCSTRL

    • S. Adler, U. Berger, A. Brüggemann-Klein, C. Haber, W. Lamersdorf, M. Münke et al.

    Pages 145-170

14. Digital publishing for conference proceedings on CD-ROM

    • Dieter W. Fellner

    Pages 171-178

15. Books and journals in MeDoc — Experiences on bringing publications online

    • U. Schwab

    Pages 179-186

16. Experiences in document conversions during the MeDoc project

    • Hubert Feyrer

    Pages 187-192

17. Digital books in MeDoc — A first analysis of usage patterns

    • Michael Breu

    Pages 193-206

18. Use of MeDoc offerings in technical education

    • Andreas Spillner

    Pages 207-212

19. The Stanford InfoBus and its service layers: Augmenting the internet with higher-level information management protocols

    • Martin Röscheisen, Michelle Baldonado, Kevin Chang, Luis Gravano, Steven Ketchpel, Andreas Paepcke

    Pages 213-230

20. Objectives, results and conclusions of the European Decomate project: Delivery of copyright material to end users

    • Joost Dijkstra

    Pages 231-238

This book coherently documents the results and experiences of a major digital library pilot effort, the MeDoc project (Multimedia Electronic Documents). This two-year project was initiated by the German Informatics Society (GI) and involved authors, publishers, librarians, and computer science departments. The prototype distributed digital library system developed during the initiative was operated in a nationwide trial for several months. The book presents the technical and operational results achieved during the project as well as input from foreign digital library activities. Besides professionals active in the area of digital library research and design, this book addresses librarians and others engaged in scientific publishing.

• Access
• CD-ROM
• Document Preparation
• Internet
• computer
• computer science
• digital libraries
• information management
• information retrieval
• multimedia
• online
• patterns
• security
• service-oriented computing
• user interface

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