Browsing around a digital library
What
will it be like to work in the digital library of the future? We begin by browsing
around an experimental digital library of the present, glancing at some collections
and seeing how they are organized. Then we look to the
future. Although present digital libraries are quite like conventional libraries,
we argue that future ones will feel qualitatively different. Readers--and writers--will
work in the library using a kind of context-directed browsing. This will be
supported by structures derived from automatic analysis of the contents of the
library--not just the catalog, or abstracts, but the full text of the books
and journals--using new techniques of data mining.
Ian
H. Witten
University
of Waikato, New Zealand
Phone : +64
7 838-4246
Fax : +64
7 838-4155
E-mail: ihw@cs.waikato.ac.nz