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Conway, Paul – Library Journal, 1994
Discussion of digital imaging technology focuses on its potential use for preservation of library materials. Topics addressed include converting microfilm to digital; the high cost of conversion from paper or microfilm; quality; indexing; database management issues; incompatibility among imaging systems; longevity; cooperative pilot projects; and…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Cooperative Programs, Costs, Database Management Systems
Creasey, J. C.; Wesley, C. – 1987
This report of a United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) pilot project, which was carried out during 1982-84 in Khartoum (Sudan) to develop a vehicle for providing access to information on research in progress, describes: (1) the study that led to the conclusion that a national register of research projects was…
Descriptors: Classification, Data Collection, Developing Nations, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedConway, Paul; Weaver, Shari – Microform Review, 1994
This report documents the second phase of Yale University's Project Open Book, which explored the uses of digital technology for preservation of and access to deteriorating documents. Highlights include preconditions for project implementation; quality digital conversion; characteristics of source materials; digital document indexing; workflow…
Descriptors: Access to Information, College Libraries, Data Conversion, Electronic Libraries
Peer reviewedVleduts-Stokolov, Natasha – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1987
Describes a system developed for the automatic recognition of biological concepts in titles of scientific articles; reports results of several pilot experiments which tested the system's performance; analyzes typical ambiguity problems encountered by the system; describes a disambiguation technique that was developed; and discusses future plans…
Descriptors: Automatic Indexing, Biological Sciences, Componential Analysis, Computational Linguistics
