These principles should be kept in mind as digital libraries are constructed. If they are, the usability and future archival value of the library are likely to be good. One point is that hypertext allows small chunks to be extracted, and then linked to from several places. Another point is that declarative markup lets documents be rendered to screen or paper in a variety of ways. Then he went over some basic information of Digital libraries.
Digital libraries have the potential of being able to provide more ease to access information.
In addition to providing traditional libraries services, they also encapsulate word processing, document management, markup and SGML enhancements. Information Retrieval provides a base to build digital libraries. Additional parts of the WWW site for the course were introduced. The class was divided into discussion groups for the debates on digital libraries on Tuesday. The class ended with a brief introduction to the concept of digital libraries.