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  • × theme_ss:"Verteilte bibliographische Datenbanken"
  1. Ashton, J.: ONE: the final OPAC frontier (1998) 0.07
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    Source
    Select newsletter. 1998, no.22, Spring, S.5-6
    Year
    1998
  2. Kuberek, M. (Red.): Kooperativer Bibliotheksverbund Berlin-Brandenburg (KOBV) : Bibliothekarische Inhalte und Zielsetzungen des KOBV (1998) 0.04
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    Issue
    Stand: 31. März 1998.
    Source
    Weitblick: Mitteilungsblatt der Bibliotheken in Berlin und Brandenburg. 4(1998) H.2, S.18-34
    Year
    1998
  3. Ostergren, M.; Wright, G.: Creating a bibliographic database for a widely distributed collection (1998) 0.03
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    Abstract
    Managing information from over 375 separate parks is a challenge for the US National Parks Service (NPS). Describes the National Resource Bibliography Project initiated by the NPS, which so far includes more than 100.000 records from over 160 different US parks. The goal is to complete all of the units designated for the project by 1998. The result will be a virtual library comprising document collections from over 300 parks, forming a unique and valuable research tool, available to anyone interested
    Source
    Information outlook. 2(1998) no.1, S.27-30
    Year
    1998
  4. Dempsey, L.; Russell, R.; Murray, R.: ¬The emergence of distributed library services : a European perspective (1998) 0.02
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    Source
    Journal of the American Society for Information Science. 49(1998) no.10, S.942-951
    Year
    1998
  5. Duda, L.E.; Rioux, M.A.: ¬One library, one bib record : two opacs, two systems (1998) 0.02
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    Source
    Information outlook. 2(1998) no.3, S.31-34,36
    Year
    1998
  6. Milanesi, C.: Möglichkeiten der Kooperation im Rahmen von Subject Gateways : das Euler-Projekt im Vergleich mit weiteren europäischen Projekten (2001) 0.02
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    Date
    22. 6.2002 19:41:59
  7. Dupuis, P.; Lapointe, J.: Developpement d'un outil documentaire à Hydro-Quebec : le Thesaurus HQ (1997) 0.01
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    Source
    Argus. 26(1997) no.3, S.16-22
  8. Dempsey, L.; Russell, R.; Kirriemur, J.W.: Towards distributed library systems : Z39.50 in a European context (1996) 0.01
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    Source
    Program. 30(1996) no.1, S.1-22
  9. Lunau, C.D.: Z39.50: a critical component of the Canadian resource sharing infrastructure : implementation activities and results achieved (1997) 0.01
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    Date
    3. 3.1999 17:22:57
  10. Burrows, T.: ¬The virtual catalogue : bibliographic access for the virtual library (1993) 0.01
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    Date
    8.10.2000 14:47:22
  11. Roszkowski, M.; Lukas, C.: ¬A distributed architecture for resource discovery using metadata (1998) 0.01
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    Source
    D-Lib magazine. 4(1998) no.6, xx S
    Year
    1998
  12. Kaizik, A.; Gödert, W.; Milanesi, C.: Erfahrungen und Ergebnisse aus der Evaluierung des EU-Projektes EULER im Rahmen des an der FH Köln angesiedelten Projektes EJECT (Evaluation von Subject Gateways des World Wide Web (2001) 0.01
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    Date
    22. 6.2002 19:42:22
  13. Heery, R.: Information gateways : collaboration and content (2000) 0.01
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    Date
    22. 6.2002 19:38:54
  14. Neuroth, H.; Lepschy, P.: ¬Das EU-Projekt Renardus (2001) 0.01
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    Date
    22. 6.2002 19:32:15
  15. Avrahami, T.T.; Yau, L.; Si, L.; Callan, J.P.: ¬The FedLemur project : Federated search in the real world (2006) 0.01
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    Date
    22. 7.2006 16:02:07
  16. Meiert, M.: Elektronische Publikationen an Hochschulen : Modellierung des elektronischen Publikationsprozesses am Beispiel der Universität Hildesheim (2006) 0.01
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    Date
    1. 9.2006 13:22:15
  17. Nicholson, D.; Steele, M.: CATRIONA : a distributed, locally-oriented, Z39.50 OPAC-based approach to cataloguing the Internet (1996) 0.01
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    Source
    Cataloging and classification quarterly. 22(1996) nos.3/4, S.127-141
  18. Johnson, E.H.: Objects for distributed heterogeneous information retrieval (2000) 0.01
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    Date
    22. 9.1997 19:16:05
  19. Karl, A.; Mühlschlegel, U.; Ullrich, R.; Deylen, W. von; Farenholtz, B.; Schmolling, R.; Strosetzki, C.; Trapp, M.; Waldeck, B.: cibera: Virtuelle Fachbibliothek Ibero-Amerika / Spanien / Portugal : Teil 2: Die einzelnen Elemente (2006) 0.01
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    Content
    Sowohl die Datenkonvertierung als auch der Aufbau einer Z39.50-Schnittstelle wurden von der Technik des IAI vorgenommen. Der Katalog I des IIK konnte Ende Oktober 2004 erfolgreich in die Suchumgebung integriert werden. Der Katalog II des IIK ist Bestandteil der Datenbank des Fachinformationsverbundes Internationale Beziehungen und Länderkunde (FIV-IBLK). Er enthält die Bücher des IIK ab Mitte 2002 sowie Zeitschriftenaufsätze mit Lateinamerikabezug bereits ab 1985. Die dafür verwendete Domestic-Datenbank wurde beim GBV in eine Pica-Datenbank eingespielt. Diese Migration, die im November 2005 abgeschlossen werden konnte, sowie die vorhandene Z39.50-Schnittstelle und Standard-Datenformate ermöglichen nun die zügige Einbindung in cibera. Sobald die Teilmenge "Lateinamerikabestand" vom GBV definiert ist, kann auch der Katalog II in die Metasuche von cibera integriert werden. Probleme ergeben sich mit der Integration der Kataloge der deutschen Standorte des Instituto Cervantes (Berlin, Bremen, München). Die Voraussetzungen sind geklärt, allerdings wird das vom Instituto Cervantes zurück gelieferte Datenformat IBERMARC von der Metasuchmaschine iPort noch nicht unterstützt. Die Einbindung des Katalogs der Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek (SUB) Hamburg brachte besondere inhaltliche Herausforderungen mit sich, weil er als Katalog einer Universalbibliothek fächerübergreifend ist. Die notwendige Definition eines Fachausschnittes bedeutete Pionierarbeit im Bereich der PICA-Anwender. Der GBV hat Ende 2003 zur Kennzeichnung des SSG-relevanten Ausschnittes im CBS Kategorie 5056 (SSG-Nummer) eingeführt. Bei den älteren Katalogisaten des SSGs musste Kategorie 5056 nachträglich gesetzt werden. Für alle Titelaufnahmen ab Anfang 1998 ist das mit Hilfe eines von der SUB Hamburg entwickelten automatisierten Verfahrens gelungen. In Kürze wird der entsprechende Teilkatalog mit ca. 20.000 Titeln des SSGs Spanien/Portugal für cibera zur Verfügung stehen. Für die älteren Bestände unterstützt die Verbundzentrale des GBV die Schaffung des entsprechenden Fachausschnittes. Weitere Bibliotheken - schwerpunktmäßig solche außerhalb der existierenden Verbundkataloge - sollen als Partner gewonnen werden, um die Katalogsuche zu ergänzen." ...
  20. Kochtanek, T.R.; Matthews, J.R.: Library information systems : from library automation to distributed information systems (2002) 0.00
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    Footnote
    Rez. in: JASIST 54(2003) no.12, S.1166-1167 (Brenda Chawner): "Kochtanek and Matthews have written a welcome addition to the small set of introductory texts an applications of information technology to library and information Services. The book has fourteen chapters grouped into four sections: "The Broader Context," "The Technologies," "Management Issues," and "Future Considerations." Two chapters provide the broad content, with the first giving a historical overview of the development and adoption of "library information systems." Kochtanek and Matthews define this as "a wide array of solutions that previously might have been considered separate industries with distinctly different marketplaces" (p. 3), referring specifically to integrated library systems (ILS, and offen called library management systems in this part of the world), and online databases, plus the more recent developments of Web-based resources, digital libraries, ebooks, and ejournals. They characterize technology adoption patterns in libraries as ranging from "bleeding edge" to "leading edge" to "in the wedge" to "trailing edge"-this is a catchy restatement of adopter categories from Rogers' diffusion of innovation theory, where they are more conventionally known as "early adopters," "early majority," "late majority," and "laggards." This chapter concludes with a look at more general technology trends that have affected library applications, including developments in hardware (moving from mainframes to minicomputers to personal Computers), changes in software development (from in-house to packages), and developments in communications technology (from dedicated host Computers to more open networks to the current distributed environment found with the Internet). This is followed by a chapter describing the ILS and online database industries in some detail. "The Technologies" begins with a chapter an the structure and functionality of integrated library systems, which also includes a brief discussion of precision versus recall, managing access to internal documents, indexing and searching, and catalogue maintenance. This is followed by a chapter an open systems, which concludes with a useful list of questions to consider to determine an organization's readiness to adopt open source solutions. As one world expect, this section also includes a detailed chapter an telecommunications and networking, which includes types of networks, transmission media, network topologies, switching techniques (ranging from dial up and leased lines to ISDN/DSL, frame relay, and ATM). It concludes with a chapter an the role and importance of standards, which covers the need for standards and standards organizations, and gives examples of different types of standards, such as MARC, Dublin Core, Z39.50, and markup standards such as SGML, HTML, and XML. Unicode is also covered but only briefly. This section world be strengthened by a chapter an hardware concepts-the authors assume that their reader is already familiar with these, which may not be true in all cases (for example, the phrase "client-Server" is first used an page 11, but only given a brief definition in the glossary). Burke's Library Technology Companion: A Basic Guide for Library Staff (New York: Neal-Schuman, 2001) might be useful to fill this gap at an introductory level, and Saffady's Introduction to Automation for Librarians, 4th ed. (Chicago: American Library Association, 1999) world be better for those interested in more detail. The final two sections, however, are the book's real strength, with a strong focus an management issues, and this content distinguishes it from other books an this topic such as Ferguson and Hebels Computers for Librarians: an Introduction to Systems and Applications (Waggawagga, NSW: Centre for Information Studies, Charles Sturt University, 1998). ...