The recent academic and commercial efforts in digital libraries have
demonstrated the potential for white scale online search and retrieval
of cataloged electronic content. By improving access to scientific,
educational and historical documents and information, digital libraries
create powerful opportunities for revamping education, accelerating,
scientific discovery and technical advancement, and improving knowledge.
Further more, digital libraries go well beyond traditional libraries in
storing and indexing diverse and complex types of material such as
images, video, graphics, audio, and multimedia. Concurrent with the
advancements in digital libraries, the Internet has become a pervasive
medium for information access and communication. With the broad
penetration of the internet, network-based digital libraries can
interoperate with other diverse networked information systems and
provide around the clock real time access to widely distributed
information catalogs.
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