Computer Science Technical Report (CS-TR) Project: Considerations from theLibrary Perspective

摘要

In 1992 the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) funded a three year grant toinvestigate the questions related to large-scale, distributed, digital libraries. The award focused research on Computer Science Technical Reports (CS-TR) and was granted to the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI) and five research Universities. The ensuing collaborative research has focused on a broad spectum of technical, social, and legal issues, and has encompassed all aspects of a very large, heterogeneous distributed digital library environment: acquisition, storage, organization, search retrieval, display, use and intellectual property. The initial corpus of this digital library is a coherent digital collection of CS-TRs created at the five participating universities: Carnegie Mellon, Cornell, MIT, Stanford, and the University of California at Berkeley. The Corporation for National Research Initiatives serves as a collaborator and agent for the project. As the project comes to a close, accomplishments include: a large digital collection; an exchange format for bibliographic data (RFC1807); a distributed, web-based delivery protocol (Dienst); an information awareness service (Sift); an approach to interoperability (Kahn/Wilensky paper); and a web catalog tool (Lycus).