An Interchange Standard and System for Browsing Digital Documents

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction

1.1 The Library 2000 Project
1.2 The Need for a Digital Document
1.3 Digital Documents
1.4 MIME types
1.5 Digiment Browser
1.6 Research Goals

2.1 Existing Research on Digital Documents
2.2 Document Delivery Systems
2.3 Digital Document Systems
2.4 MIME
2.5 OpenDoc and OLE

3.1 The Library 2000 Model
3.2 The Digiment Concept
3.3 The Digiment Concept Versus the All-in-one Concept
3.4 Requirements for a Digiment
3.5 How to Create a Digiment

4.1 What is MIME?
4.2 MIME Headers
4.3 The multipart/digiment type
4.4 The application/digiment type

5.1 General Overview
5.2 PIF Files
5.3 The Create-digiment Program
5.4 Generating Page-lists and Page-maps
5.5 Generating the Other Digiment Parts
5.6 Putting It All Together

6.1 Basic Requirements for a Browser
6.2 Creating a WWW Based Browser
6.3 How the browser works
6.4 Parsing the Digiment
6.5 Displaying the Digiment
6.6 Limitations of the Current Browser

7.1 Improving the Digiment Generator
7.2 Improving the Digiment Browser
7.3 New Extensions and Enhancements to the Application/digiment Type
7.4 An Alternative Form for the Page-list Digiment-type
7.5 The Digiment as Interchange Format

8.1 General Conclusions
8.2 The Distinction Between the Semantics of a Document and its Representation
8.3 A Compound Digital Object Specifically Designed for Electronic Distribution and Browsing

A.1 The Multipart/digiment Type
A.2 The application/digiment type

B.1 A Digiment With Multiple Formats

C.1 The CSTR Scanned Document Record, version CSTR 1.3