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Mathisen, Ralph W. – Collegiate Microcomputer, 1991
Provides a general overview of multimedia and its significance in educational applications. Topics discussed include hypermedia; interactive multimedia; storage formats, including analog, digital, and CD-ROM; and multimedia standards, including Compact Disk Interactive (CDI), CD-ROM Extended Architecture (CD-ROM XA), and Digital Video Interactive…
Descriptors: Computer Storage Devices, Hypermedia, Interactive Video, Multimedia Instruction
Urrows, Henry; Urrows, Elizabeth – Optical Information Systems, 1988
Describes the latest technology in videotape cassette systems and other magnetic storage devices and their possible effects on optical data disks. Highlights include Honeywell's Very Large Data Store (VLDS); Exabyte's tape cartridge storage system; standards for tape drives; and Masstor System's videotape cartridge system. (LRW)
Descriptors: Computer Storage Devices, Data Processing, Information Storage, Optical Data Disks
Herther, Nancy K. – Online, 1985
Introduction to use of compact disk technology for storing digital data highlights history, background, and developments; technical features; standardization issues; current CD ROM applications; and the market for CD products. A production diagram, a sampling of CD manufacturers and disk replicators, and performance comparison of three storage…
Descriptors: Computer Storage Devices, Information Retrieval, Information Storage, Information Systems
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Brumm, Eugenia K. – Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 1991
This summary of the literature on document image processing from 1988-90 focuses on WORM (write once read many) technology and on rewritable (i.e., erasable) optical discs, and excludes CD-ROM. Highlights include vendors and products, standards, comparisons of storage media, software, legal issues, records management, indexing, and computer…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computer Networks, Computer Software, Computer Storage Devices
Blake, Monica – Electronic Publishing Review, 1986
Reviews the current status of electronic archiving, especially in Great Britain and the United States, including current use of various electronic storage media; advantages and utilizations of optical disk technology; trends toward full-text databases and increased videotex use; growing quantity of electronic information; and problems in archiving…
Descriptors: Archives, Computer Software, Computer Storage Devices, Educational Media
Verheul, Ingeborg – International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (NJ3), 2006
In 2004-2005, The National Library of the Netherlands (Koninklijke Bibliotheek) conducted a survey for the IFLA-CDNL Alliance for Bibliographic Standards (ICABS)--an alliance founded jointly by the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA), the Conference of Directors of National Libraries (CDNL) and the national libraries of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Government Libraries, Cultural Background, Electronic Libraries
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Kountz, John – Library Hi Tech, 1991
Description of high density data storage (HDDS) devices focuses on CD-ROMs and explores their impact on libraries, publishing, education, and library communications. Highlights include costs; technical standards; reading devices; authoring systems; robotics; the influence of new technology on the role of libraries; and royalty and copyright issues…
Descriptors: Authoring Aids (Programing), Computer Software, Computer Storage Devices, Copyrights