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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