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The New York Public Library Digital Collections provide the public with digital versions of books, manuscripts, photographs, engravings, and other items as well as tools to browse, search, and analyze these materials remotely via the Internet. "SPIRO can be accessed using either Image Query, a powerful database retrieval package, or the World Wide Web.
Dan gave him a list of projects which he put aside until he could finish documenting the system. "You have to understand the data before you can work with it," he explained to Jennifer. "The data is everything. Most people don't know how to lay out a database; they make a mess that just keeps getting worse." "You did a nice job at The Conservancy," she said.
Most of the recent print media already stem from an electronic version on a word processor, a spreadsheet or a database. More and more documents are "only" electronic. Because of the development of digital libraries, there are fewer documents available in print. Those documents existing only in a print version can easily be scanned if necessary.
Digitization makes possible the on-line publishing of educational and scientific publications, for which the latest information is essential. Some U.S. universities distribute specific textbooks gathering a selection of chapters selected in an extensive database and some professors' articles and commentaries.
"You want me to set up a database?" "I suppose that is what we need." "How soon?" "Umm . . ." "Yesterday, right?" "Well, sometime soon, at your convenience." "As it happens," Oliver said, "I've got time in the next couple of weeks. How about if I come over Tuesday, say around nine?" "Thank you, Oliver. You're a sweetheart. See you then." Jennifer hung up, and Oliver looked at the computer.
While this has long been the case for fielded systems, it is becoming true for even the most sophisticated research and development programs being undertaken by defense organizations. At the heart of this program, large amounts of data are collected within a vast database residing on commercial computers and enterprise management systems.
A service of CARL Corporation, UnCover is both a fax reprint service and the world's largest database of magazine and journal articles, with current article information taken from well over 17,000 multidisciplinary journals. UnCover contains brief descriptive information for over 7,000,000 articles which have appeared since Fall 1988.
In April 2007, Stanford University used this data to create a Copyright Renewal Database, searchable by title, author, copyright date and copyright renewal date. The bet made by Michael Hart in 1971 succeeded.
The Electronic Beowulf Project has assembled a huge database of digital images of the Beowulf manuscript and related manuscripts and printed texts.
Many of the Library's plans for its collections, and for meeting its users' needs, require the development of a single catalogue database. This is being pursued in the Library's Corporate Bibliographic Programme which seeks to address this issue." Parts of the current systems are now 20 years old.
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