If online information resources are to be as useful as libraries of books and stacks, a number of tasks that are simple in the real-world libraries need to be made simpler in the online world.
Predictor: Masinter, Larry
Prediction, in context:Larry Masinter, at the time a principal engineer at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, made the following remarks in a research presentation at INET ’95, the Internet Society’s 1995 International Networking Conference in Honolulu, Hawaii, June 27-30. Masinter had worked in the area of document-management-system architecture since 1988, he was involved with the Web standards groups from their inception, and he had been active in research in regard to digital libraries since 1993. He says: ”If online information resources are to be as useful as libraries of books and stacks, a number of tasks that are simple in the real-world libraries need to be made simpler in the online world. Much of digital library focuses on the capabilities necessary to find the most relevant information for a user who comes to do a search. Since the repositories are assumed to be extremely large and have full content available for search, new methods are being explored. As libraries are moving from providing bibliographic search (for words in the title, abstract, author) to full-text search, the algorithms for full-text retrieval are being reexamined. In addition, there is much research and development into the ability to search libraries of images, sound and video by a variety of techniques.”
Date of prediction: June 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: Libraries/Databases
Name of publication: ISOC INET '95 (conference)
Title, headline, chapter name: Document Management, Digital Libraries and the Web
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.isoc.org/HMP/PAPER/243/html/paper.html
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