UDT Occasional Papers

1. Series on Information and Networking Technologies in Russian Libraries.

• 1 a. The First Russian Computerized Library Network - A Description and Perspectives of the LIBNET Project
  Dr. Yakov Shraiberg and Mr. Mikhail Goncharov. The Russian National Public Library for Science and Technology. Moscow, Russia. March, 1995.

• 1 b. The Current State and Prospects of Online Systems in Russian Libraries.
  Dr. Yakov Shraiberg. The Russian National Public Library for Science and Technology. Moscow, Russia. March, 1995.

• 1 c. Problems of Optical Character Recognition Technologies in Russian Libraries and Information Centres
  M. Goncharov and D. Nikolaev. The Russian National Public Library for Science and Technology. Moscow, Russia. March 1995.

• 1 d. The First Library WWW-server in Russia
  Dr. Yakov Shraiberg, Mikhail Goncharov and Alexei Pankov. Russian National Public Library for Science and Technology. Moscow, Russia. 1996.

2. Overview of Document Management Technology.

Gary Cleveland, National Library of Canada.

[Acrobat PDF version: 40K]

3. An Overview of the Z39.50 Information Retrieval Standard.

Fay Turner, National Library of Canada.

[Acrobat PDF version: 26K]

4. Z39.50 and the World Wide Web.

Sebastian Hammer, Index Data and John Favaro, Intecs Sistemi.

[Acrobat PDF version: 25K]

5. The Seven Ages of Information Retrieval.

Michael Lesk, Bellcore.

[Acrobat PDF version: 350K with images]

6. Knowledge Organization for the Betterment of Humankind.

Vigdor Schreibman, Federal Information News Syndicate.

Text: [Acrobat PDF version: 90K]

Figure: [Acrobat PDF version: 12K]

7. African Telecommunication Infrastructures for Information Access.

Muriuki Mureithi

[Acrobat PDF version: 76K]

8. Digital Libraries: Definitions, Issues and Challenges.

Gary Cleveland, UDT Core Programme

[Acrobat PDF version: 62K]

9. SGML: An Overview and Criteria for Use.

Gary Cleveland, UDT Core Programme

[Acrobat PDF version: 53K]

10. SGML: Technical Infrastructure Overview

Chris Savage, XIST Inc.

[Acrobat PDF version: 62K]

11. Selecting Electronic Document Formats

Gary Cleveland, IFLA UDT Core Programme

[Acrobat PDF version: 117K]

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