To explore the full benefits of … digital libraries, the challenge for research and development is not merely how to connect everyone and everything together in the network. Rather, it is to achieve economically feasible technologies with which to digitize massive corpora of existing and new information from heterogeneous and distributed sources; then store, search, process and retrieve the information in a user-friendly way.
Predictor: Information Infrastructure Technology and Applications (IITA) Task Group: High-Performance Computing and Communications Information Technology Subcommittee
Prediction, in context:In a final draft of their Dec. 1, 1993, recommendations for the National Information Infrastructure, members of the High-Performance Computing Communications and Information Technology subcommittee write the following: ”A digital library is literally a library ‘without walls’ – a knowledge resource open 24 hours a day, accessible via the network. To explore the full benefits of … digital libraries, the challenge for research and development is not merely how to connect everyone and everything together in the network. Rather, it is to achieve economically feasible technologies with which to digitize massive corpora of existing and new information from heterogeneous and distributed sources; then store, search, process and retrieve the information in a user-friendly way. Among other things, this will require both fundamental research and development of ‘intelligent’ software and user interfaces; ubiquitous network services for reliable and secure information access; and a new generation of database technologies for managing multimedia, cross-cultural, and interorganizational complexities of knowledge explosion. Equally important are mechanisms to ensure the maintenance (and potential payment for use) of intellectual property. One could image a small fee being charged to each reader of a ‘fee-for-access’ document published on an open network.”
Date of prediction: December 1, 1993
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: Libraries/Databases
Name of publication: Information Infrastructure Technology and Applications - Report of the IITA Task Group: High-Performance Computing Communications and Information Technology Subcommittee
Title, headline, chapter name: 2.3 Digital Libraries
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/us/iita.txt
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