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FURUTA, Richard |
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Defining and Using Structure in Digital Documents |
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Proceedings of the First Annual Conference on the Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, 1994 |
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On line ( 15/06/2004) |
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Understanding structure is a critical step in the process of developing the design of a digital library. Understanding the structures required for a particular digital library requires an understanding of the scope of objects to be stored in the library, of the classes of clients to be served, and of the needs of each of the client groups. The preexisting work in the area of structured documents with its emphasis on logical structuring illustrates a successful case of separating the concerns of the different client classes in the structural design. The specific tree-based, context-free grammar-constrained structures that predominate in the structured document world are not likely to be sufficiently general to handle the wide range of objects in the digital library--collections that include not only text but also graphics, audio, video, computations, and process. Powerful metaphors will have to be developed for these other objects and interrelationships defined. The definition process can be focused by consideration of key structural characteristics (AU) |
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Structure; documents; process; specification; constraint; consistency; reusability |
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GATZEMEIER, Felix H.; MEYER, Oliver |
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Making Complex Document Structures Accessible Through Templates. |
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We address two problems of technical authors in structured environments: (1) Structure definitions of the SGML school are limiting: they require one primary hierarchy and do not cater for link types and (2) Real-life structure definitions are too large to be comprehended easily. As solutions, we propose graph types and usage templates. The edge types and inheritance of the proposed graph type model are useful modeling tools. We give examples for structures that can be expressed more precisely and with gain for the author using graph structures. There are also graphical tools available to define graph types and to specify operations on graphs. Templates can be used as a simple parameterization mechanism. A template illustrates the usual usage of a substructure, as opposed to the minimal one required by a structure definition, or the maximal one allowed by it. We also present a prototype authoring application based on these ideas (AU) |
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structure; documents; SGML |
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GUTOWITZ, Howard |
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Two case studies in the diffusion of scientific information via the internet. |
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On line ( 15/06/2004) |
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This report concerns a pilot study of patterns of access to scientific documents made available on the internet, in particular, the World-Wide Web. Its goal is to suggest that the behavior of internet users can be subject to scientific analysis, and further, that the tools of statistical mechanics may be of some value in this analysis.
One case studied is a document written according to the traditional model of the scientific article, but made available on the World-Wide Web. The other case is a document written in an intrinsically net-oriented model, and also available on the web. The statistics of access to these documents are rather different. While the first document appears to relax to equilibrium, the second document appears to be in a (self-organized) critical state (AU) |
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scientific document; world wide web; model |
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LUPOVICI, Catherine |
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L´information bibliographique des documents électroniques |
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This analyses electronic bibliographic formats, metadata, the Dublin Core. |
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Bibliographic reference; metadata; Dublin Core |
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