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Digital libraries for electronic news

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Digital Libraries Research and Technology Advances (ADL 1995)

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Although the delivery of electronic news is well suited to exploit the promised high bandwidth, switched, interactive communication facilities of the information highway, its effectiveness depends on the emergence of digital libraries of electronic news data. Our initial investigations and prototyping experiences indicate that there are many open questions, including appropriate client/server architectures, abstract data representations, the use of personal agents, use of the UTF, amounts of information retrieved, categorization of news content, and automatic updating of personal user profiles.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, Statistics & Computing Science, Dalhousie University, B3H 3J5, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

    Michael A. Shepherd

  2. Jodrey School of Computer Science, Acadia University, B0P 1X0, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada

    C. R. Watters

  3. Department of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, N2L 3G1, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

    F. J. Burkowski

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  1. Michael A. Shepherd
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Nabil R. Adam Bharat K. Bhargava Milton Halem Yelena Yesha

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Shepherd, M.A., Watters, C.R., Burkowski, F.J. (1996). Digital libraries for electronic news. In: Adam, N.R., Bhargava, B.K., Halem, M., Yesha, Y. (eds) Digital Libraries Research and Technology Advances. ADL 1995. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1082. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0024603

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