Facts and Myths of Browsing and Searching in a Digital Library

Autor: K.F. Tan, M. Wing, Norman Revell, Gary Marsden, Ross MacIntyre, Ken Eason, C. Baldwin, Ann Apps, S. Promfett
Rok vydání: 1998
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Zdroj: Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries ISBN: 9783540651017
ECDL
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-49653-x_54
Popis: In recent times, there has been increased interest in the querying of digital libraries (DLs). This is due in part to the development of the WWW, which enables easy access to both centralised and distributed digital library sources. The majority of published works on querying DLs are associated with information retrieval (IR), also known as digital querying. Information retrieval techniques are popular with querying DLs due to their flexibility in querying semi-structured data. In contrast, database querying of DLs has been largely ignored until only recent years. The key aspects of database querying of DLs involve the integration of database querying with browsing or navigating techniques to query semi-structured data. Our interest lies in developing the relatively limited database query facilities currently available to users of DLs, and a key stage in this process is to define what kinds of searching and browsing typical users would like to perform.
Databáze: OpenAIRE