Electronic Library and Visual Information Research 3
Europa Publications Ltd (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 1. December 1997
Book
Paperback/Softback
184 pages
978-0-85142-383-8 (ISBN)
Description
The Third International ELVIRA Conference took place at De Montfort University 30 April - 2 May 1996. The 18 papers address a variety of key issues concerning the electronic library and Internet developments.
Reviews / Votes
'A good insight into some of the challenges facing all of us involved in the development of the electronic library.' - ProgramMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 297 mm
Width: 210 mm
Weight
626 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-85142-383-8 (9780851423838)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Kathryn Arnold, Mel Collier
Content
Introduction; Developing an electronic library: strategic and management issues; A digital video library system of the Mandala Library; Development of image libraries for network distribution; Using the WWW as an electronic library; Using NLP resources in the BORGES information filtering tool; Collaborative browsing and visualisation of the search process; Bibliographic control, archiving and access of electronic publications as a joint undertaking by author and library; The culture of convergence; An investigation of the paradigm shift from ownership to access in the electronic library; Gender differences in Internet perception and use; Student attitudes and behaviour towards an electronic library; Monitoring and evaluation of computer based, networked information and support systems; Automatic image content retrieval - are we getting anywhere? The Online Bestiary Project; Semantic closeness and classification schema based hypermedia access; Meta-guidelines for designing and building WWW sites; Publishing a scholarly journal on the WWW; Converting structured documents for electronic libraries on the WWW.