Digital Libraries in Computer Science: The MeDoc Approach - Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1998 edition

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents: The MeDoc digital library project: Its goals and major achievements.- The MeDoc system A digital publication and reference service for computer science.- Design and implementation of the MeDoc fulltext system.- Conception of the user agent The user interface of the MeDoc-system.- Access to bibliographic data bases The provider agents in MeDoc.- Provider selection Design and implementation of the Medoc Broker.- Query transformation for heterogeneous provider systems in Medoc.- The MeDoc communication protocol.- The MeDoc library: Security aspects.- Cost models and accounting in MeDoc.- Ariadne, an interactive navigation and search system for computer science information on the world-wide web.- Grey literature and multiple collections in NCSTRL.- Digital publishing for conference proceedings on CD-ROM.- Books and journals in MeDoc Experiences on bringing publications online.- Experiences in document conversions during the MeDoc project.- Digital books in MeDoc A first analysis of usage patterns.- Use of MeDoc offerings in technical education.- The Stanford InfoBus and its service layers: Augmenting the internet with higher-level information management protocols.- Objectives, results and conclusions of the European Decomate project: Delivery of copyright material to end users."

Contributor Bio:  Endres, Albert Albert Endres has lived, worked and taught all over the world. Before retiring from IBM in 1992, Endres worked for the company in Germany, France and New York, mostly dealing with software engineering. He was a professor of computer science at the Technical University of Munich and a member of ACM and IEEE. Currently he concentrates on his hobbies. Dieter Romabch is the director of software engineering at Fraunhofer Institut Experimentelles in Germany. The institute is the leading center for applied research and technology transfer in experimental software engineering. He is also the head of a software engineering research group for AGSE.