From Usability to Use

Neumann, Laura J.; Bishop, Ann Peterson

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Title

From Usability to Use

Author(s)

• Neumann, Laura J.
• Bishop, Ann Peterson

Issue Date

2000

Keyword(s)

• National Information Infrastructure (NII)
• Digital Libraries Initiative
• SGML
• DeLIver
• usability

Date of Ingest

2011-06-22T19:49:19Z

Abstract

"In 1994, as part of its commitment to the National Information Infrastructure (Nil), the NSF, DARPA, and NASA funded six digital library projects at different universities (under the Digital Libraries Initiative — called ""DLI"" for short). Our Illinois DLI is a distributed multi-disciplinary project. Computer scientists, librarians, and social scientists worked together to develop an SGML database and protocols for federating repositories of data. The testbed team has constructed a prototype system that contains the full text of over fifty engineering, physics, and computer sciencejournals. Some of the innovative aspects of our DLI project can be seen in DeLIver, the Web-based search interface to the testbed. Through SGML markup of the scientific articles and enhanced search features, users can search for, and display, information from individual parts—e.g., ""MIT"" in author affiliation or ""spectrum"" in a figure caption. Users can also display the full text of the article at their desktops via the Web."

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]

ISSN

0069-4789

Type of Resource

text

Genre of Resource

Conference Paper / Presentation

Language

en

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