INTERNET ÉS A KÖNYVTÁR

Mader Béla, mader@bibl.u-szeged.hu
József Attila Tudományegyetem, Egyetemi Könyvtára, Szeged

Abstract:

The Internet and the Library: this topic has been discussed by librarians, information officers since almost the beginning of providing Internet access in the libraries. Both in the western developed countries and in Hungary the basic human rights for freedom and the rights for free information are considered as fundamental principles when regulating Internet access in the librares. In Hungary to fullfill the library tasks for providing the access to the global information sources requires a lot more developed and richer technical and infrastructural background and financing. The libraries in Hungary has to seek solutions to provide the Internet services of great library importance also in the situation of a transition period, when the possibilities are determined by economic difficulties.

Darányi Sándor, daranyi@kazy.elte.hu
ARIST BT, Budapest

Abstract

Information retrieval on the Internet suffers from insufficient indexing, the opaqueness of retrieval models, and the misconcept of navigation. In order to enable true three- or four-dimensional navigation, we must construct semantic universes first, which represent the spatial arrangement of domain-specific knowledge. Such spatial content maps can be constructed following the guidelines of Gerard Salton's dynamic library model. This is a recursive model which applies to any system of classifications changing over time, and can be used for the grouping of electronic documents as well. I suggest that by replacing cluster analysis with principal component analysis in the original model, information visualization becomes possible. The results, robust distributions of both documents and keywords, resemble stellar configurations and pave the way for a postulated information astronomy.

Kovács László, laszlo.kovacs@sztaki.hu
Micsik András, micsik@sztaki.hu
MTA SZTAKI, Elosztott Rendszerek Osztály

Abstract

The member institutes of ERCIM (European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics) decided to serve their technical reports through a unified and distributed digital library environment. This environment is based on the Dienst server of the American NCSTRL project. The server at this time is running in several computer research institutes in France, Sweden, Italy, Portugal, Greece and Hungary. It provides advanced search and display facilities, where the technical reports of selected institutions can be handled parallelly through a unified interface.

Gyüre Péter, gyp@giant.lib.klte.hu
KLTE Egyetemi és Nemzeti Könyvtár, Informatikai Osztály

In the late 80's OPAC was the only way library systems used the Internet. Today WWW services are equal to the Internet in many people's mind, so telnet interfaces to database seems to be outdated. How could libraries preserve that domination in the Internet content services that they had achieved with OPAC services? One way is to catalog publicly available Internet services in library system, and provide library users with these information. These services can be considered as conventional information sources in many aspects; they all have a title, author or corporate author, issue date, place of publication and publisher. If we strore the URL in addition to this, and enter subject headings, Internet resources in the library catalog can compete with popular Internet search services in the area of professional services. Libraries can and should provide leadership in the solution of the problems arised due to unpresistent behavior of URL's too, to give reliable, long-term access to information.

Koltay Tibor, tibor@kpko.gau.hu
Gödöllõi Agrártudományi Egyetem Központi Könyvtár

Abstract

The European Union has been maintaining a number of projects fostering the development of electronic libaries in a wide sense. After a general overview, nine projects from the ones following the 1995 proposal are discussed.

Even though the United Kingdom is member of the EU, it iniciated its own national projects. After an overview of these three projects related to document delivery are discussed.