Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries
Subtitle: First European Conference, ECDL '97 Pisa, Italy, September 1-3, 1997 Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)
Contributors: Carol Peters (Editor); Costantino Thanos (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: October 2, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 423
ISBN-13: 9783540635543
Subjects: Applications of Computing; Automation of library & information processes; Computer Programming; Special collections; Library Automation; Electronic information resources; Programming - Software Development; Information Storage And Retrieval; Computers; Computers - General Information; Libraries; Science/Mathematics; Europe; Information Storage & Retrieval; Programming Languages - General; Computers / Programming / Software Development; digital library architectures; Programming - General; Congresses; Digital libraries; Electronic information resourc
First sentence: At least since Vannevar Bush's proposal for a Memex system in 1948 or J.C.R. Licklider's Library of the Future written in 1965, people have dreamed of augmenting libraries as we know them with computers, to create digital libraries.