Digital Libraries : The Life Cycle of Information - Softcover

Chen, Su-Shing

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0966762800 ISBN 13: 9780966762808

Publisher: B E Pub, 1998

Synopsis

Recent exciting developments of the Internet, portals, WWW, and e-commerce have prompted an upsurge of interest in digital libraries. Unlike ordinary portals, digital libraries must be well organized and indexed so that users can effectively search information on the Internet. In fact digital libraries may be considered as the next-generation portals.

While many articles and books discuss the WWW and portals, only a few conferences and journals address fundamental issues of digital libraries. The author gives an in-depth account of digital libraries in this book. He provides a unified long-term vision of digital libraries as the life cycle of information. This object-oriented framework may be exactly what we need for future developments of the WWW and portals, as E. F. Codd's relational model for commercial database management systems.

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About the Author

Su-Shing Chen teaches Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He has done research on digital libraries since 1993. In 1993-1995, he was the Program Director of the NSF/DARPA/NASA Digital Libraries Initiative at the National Science Foundation.

Edition details

• Publisher: B E Pub
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0966762800
• ISBN 13: 9780966762808
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 215