Electronic Library and Visual Information Research

About this book

Papers from the Second International ELVIRA Conference representing further developments in the new technologies applicable to library and information services, building on the themes of both technical and socio-economic aspects.

Contents

Social and economic factors in scholarly electronic communication; Keeping the minutes of science; IMPEL project: the impact on people of electronic libraries; Image traffic on LANs and WANs; Z39.50 or WWW: which way to go? The management and delivery of multimedia objects in a digital library; The concept of models of use and its applications in digital libraries; The ELISE project; Capturing iconology: a study in retrieval modelling and image indexing; Electronic journals using Guide; Creating an effective multimedia electronic tour; Use of cluster analysis methods for analysing the outputs of multiple database searches; Coordinating information-seeking on interactive displays; Intelligent adaptive systems for information delivery in the electronic library; Searching for non-Roman script terms.

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