Alexandria digital library . 1 Introduction Multi dimensional indexing has applications in spatial, image, text and sequence databases. Similarly , they enable contentbased retrieval in text, audio and sequence databases. Alexandria Digital Library . Thus in contrast to solutions for magnetic disks, it is not obvious that optimizations that work for one type of tertiary technology will also work for others.
Much work needs to be done to overcome the problems associated with integrating tape storage.
Although modern traditional libraries have electronic on line catalogs for search purposes, it is only recently that the display and delivery of images, audio, video and other such data formats have become feasible. Alexandria digital library . T.R. Smith, J. Frew. The Alexandria Digital Library . The fundamental goal of this project is to provide users with the ability to access and process broad classes of spatially referenced materials from the Internet.