Library 2000 Reference Material

Offsite pointers useful for digital library research

• The Computer Science Technical Report Project, now completed, was a major ARPA-sponsored digital library architecture initiative.
• The handle system provides a kind of uniform resource identifier for documents in a digital library. The original paper on handles by Robert Kahn and Robert Wilensky gives more background.
• Bill Arms's slides on how handles fit in to the architecture of the Digital Library.
• A Framework for Identifying, Locating, and Describing Networked Information Resources. Clifford A. Lynch. March 1993. (Draft for discussion at an IETF meeting.)
• An introduction to the data model for digital library objects, by Michael Stonebraker, Nov 1994. PostScript version. Nroff version (Copies stashed at Cornell)
• Objects, Meta-Objects and Property Records by Judith Grass of CNRI (Copy stashed at Cornell)
• Jim Davis at Cornell has collected all kinds of stuff about the CS-TR project in a web area. His "Architecture, "ontology" and "scenarios" documents appear there under various categories, mixed in with other things.
• Metadata: The Dublin Core and Warwick Framework are the systematic approach to this topic. Meanwhile, bibliographic records for technical reports of the CS-TR project are standardized in RFC-1807. (There is also an earlier version, RFC-1357.)

• Computer Science Technical Reports Archive Sites
  Wais'ified. FTP site. Raw data.

  Computer Science Technical Reports Abstracts

  Wais'ified. Biblio data standard, orgcodes. FTP site. Raw data dir.
  "...over 10,000 technical reports. Over 2,300 ... have full abstracts."[dec94]

  Unified Computer Science TR Index

  Project info , Raw sitelist data .
  Guidelines for TR Archive Maintainers , Example Index File from a TR Archive Site , Example Bib format TR index file , bib.format . UCSTRI -- Requests for Tech Report Archivers . Run by Marc VanHeyningen . A paper and slides.
  "...over 6,000 TRs indexed from about 120 different FTP sites."[dec94]
  Refuses to export collected data despite multiple requests.

  Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies in BibTeX Format

  Site and holdings list . Statistics
  Introduction to the collection of bibliographies . Bibliography of bibliographies.
  "The collection consists of about 560 locally stored bibliographies, about 320,000 references (mostly to journal articles, conference papers and technical reports) and 140 MBytes of BibTeX entries. About 4000 references contain URLs to an online version of the paper. There are more than 800 links to other sites carrying bibliographic information."[dec94]

  A long list of sites with On-line CS Techreports, courtesy of CMU.

  Harvest information discovery and access system.

• PACS Review
• Electronic Publishing of Scholarly Works: A Bibliography
• Internet Public Library
• MIT Libraries - Underground Libraries. MIT Libraries Staff Web. MIT Cataloging Oasis.
• IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force)
• OCLC
• online course bibles (mit ereserve project)
• Bibliography Software, LoC USMarc Documentation (gopher!)
• Xerox PARC Digital Library Page
• U Columbia archives
• TEI (TextEncodingInitiative).

Reference Documents

• z3950
• VMS Help.. You NEED that?
• RFC's and other stuff.
• AIX FAQ. IBM Austin WWW.
• FAQs from ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet-by-hierarchy/:

Miscellaneous Information

• scholarly communication
• elibdev@mit.edu discuss archive.
• ARPA reports
• ArchiePlex--useful Archie Server
• Elsevier Science - Home Page
• Journal of Electronic Publishing
• The WWW Virtual Library: Computing
• Organizations
  ACM, IEEE, AT&T (nee Bell) Labs, DEC Corporate Research

• A Beginner's Guide to HTML
• The World Wide Web Consortium home page
• WWW FAQ.
• Information about CGI Scripts , and the list of all environment variables that get defined.

perl .

• The FAQ.
• Univ. of Florida's Perl Archive
• Perl 5 man pages

PostScript

• ghostscript: Comp.lang.postscript FAQ available from rtfm.mit.edu. Ghostscript comes in flavors "Aladdin" and "GNU". GNU is a year-old version of Aladdin. GNU Ghostscript is available from ftp://ftp.gnu.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/. Aladdin Ghostscript is available from ftp.cs.wisc.edu:/pub/ghost/aladdin.

Images

• libtiff: Sam Leffler's TIFF library. ftp://sgi.com/graphics/tiff
• netpbm: netpbm is an updated version of the pbmplus package. It appears to be available from ftp://ftp.x.org/ . I'm not sure I trust it as much as pbmplus.
  As of 94oct03, the latest version seems to be ftp://ftp.x.org/R5contrib/netpbm-1mar1994.tar.gz.
• pbmplus
• tviewer: MIT IS's document-as-tiff browser at ftp://ftp.gnu.ai.mit.edu/pub/elib/ .
• CMU viewer

Bibliographic

• Bibliography Software
• A Survey of Bibliographic Tools
• bp, a Perl Bibliography Package
• bibtex2refer (a copy here?) .
• r2b (a copy here?) . Man page (a copy here?) .
• bibclean (a copy here?) .
• A tools ftp dir

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