The NSF/DARPA/NASA Digital Libraries Initiative (DLI) project at
the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), 1994-1998, had
the goal of developing widely usable Web technology to effectively search
technical documents on the Internet. Our efforts were concentrated on
building an experimental testbed with tens of thousands of full-text journal
articles from physics, engineering, and computer science, and making
these articles available over the World Wide Web before they were available
in print. The DLI testbed focused on using the document structure
to provide federated searches across publisher collections. Our sociology
research included the evaluation of its effectiveness under use by over
1,000 UIUC faculty and students, a user community an order of magnitude
bigger than the last generation of research projects centered on
searching scientific literature. Our technology research developed indexing
of the contents of text documents to enable a federated search across
multiple sources, testing this on millions of documents for semantic federation.
Publisher
Graduate School of Library Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Series/Report Name or Number
Successes & Failures of Digital Libraries [papers presented at the 1998 Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing, March 22-24, 1998]
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