Building a Digital Library for Computer Science Research: Technical Issues


Ian H. Witten
Department of Computer Science, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand.
ihw@cs.waikato.ac.nz

Craig G. Nevill-Manning
Department of Computer Science, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand.
cgn@cs.waikato.ac.nz

Sally Jo Cunningham
Department of Computer Science, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand.
sallyjo@cs.waikato.ac.nz


Abstract

Technical reports are available electronically at hundreds of internet sites around the world. A major impediment to their utility in computer science research is the difficulty in locating reports that are relevant to a particular area. We describe the implementation of a digital library for computer science technical reports that indexes every word in each report, covers a majority of computer science technical report archives, and supports a variety of search types despite the fact that documents are not formally cataloged. We discuss in detail techniques for constructing the digital library that minimize Internet and local storage costs.
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