Issues in Georeferenced Digital Libraries Export

@article{janee2004igd, abstract = {Based on a decade's experience with the Alexandria Digital Library Project, seven issues are presented that arise in creating georeferenced digital libraries, and that appear to be intrinsic to the problem of creating any library-like information system that operates on georeferenced and geospatial resources. The first and foremost issue is providing discovery of georeferenced resources. Related to discovery are the issues of gazetteer integration and specialized ranking of search results. Strong data typing and scalability are implementation issues. Providing spatial context is a critical user interface issue. Finally, sophisticated resource access mechanisms are necessary to operate on geospatial resources}, author = {Jan\'{e}e, Greg and Frew, J. and Hill, L.}, citeulike-article-id = {1362909}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://webdoc.gwdg.de/edoc/aw/d-lib/dlib/may04/janee/05janee.html}, journal = {D-Lib Magazine}, keywords = {adl, gazetteers--digital, georeferencing, scalability}, number = {5}, pages = {1082--9873}, posted-at = {2007-06-04 15:19:32}, priority = {0}, publisher = {Corporation for National Research Initiatives}, title = {Issues in Georeferenced Digital Libraries}, url = {http://webdoc.gwdg.de/edoc/aw/d-lib/dlib/may04/janee/05janee.html}, volume = {10}, year = {2004} }

TY - JOUR ID - janee2004igd L3 - citeulike-article-id:1362909 N2 - Based on a decade's experience with the Alexandria Digital Library Project, seven issues are presented that arise in creating georeferenced digital libraries, and that appear to be intrinsic to the problem of creating any library-like information system that operates on georeferenced and geospatial resources. The first and foremost issue is providing discovery of georeferenced resources. Related to discovery are the issues of gazetteer integration and specialized ranking of search results. Strong data typing and scalability are implementation issues. Providing spatial context is a critical user interface issue. Finally, sophisticated resource access mechanisms are necessary to operate on geospatial resources IS - 5 JF - D-Lib Magazine EP - 9873 TI - Issues in Georeferenced Digital Libraries PB - Corporation for National Research Initiatives VL - 10 SP - 1082 KW - adl KW - gazetteers--digital KW - georeferencing KW - scalability AU - Janée, Greg AU - Frew, J AU - Hill, L PY - 2004/// UR - http://webdoc.gwdg.de/edoc/aw/d-lib/dlib/may04/janee/05janee.html ER -