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The further rise of electronic publishing has come to change the scale and diversity of grey literature facing librarians and other information practitioners. This compiled work brings together research and authorship over the past decade dealing with both the supply and demand sides of grey literature. While this book is written with students and instructors of Colleges and Schools of Library and Information Science in mind, it likewise serves as a reader for information professionals working in any and all like knowledge-based communities.
This proceedings book illustrates the tremendous evolution, driven by the revolutionary ICT-developments of the 90's.
The International Conference on Geological Information represents the first major attempt to bring together geoscience information specialists from allover the world. The purpose of the conference was to assess the current state-of the-art in geoscience information from both the regional and functional point of view. It was hoped that the conference could take steps to bring about increased international cooperation and collaboration in the field of geological information. The papers ranged over the whole spec trum of documentation from primary publishing back to the user, including data. Perhaps a keyword for the conference might be "cooperation". The idea of, and need for, cooperation was ...
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International XML Database Symposium, XSym 2003, held in Berlin, Germany in September 2003. The 18 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 65 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on XML-relational database management systems, XML query processing, systems and tools for XML data processing, XML access structures, stream processing and updates, and design issues.
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, WISE 2004, held in Brisbane, Australia in November 2004. The 45 revised full papers and 29 revised short papers presented together with 3 invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected from 198 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on Web information modeling; payment and security; information extraction; advanced applications; performance issues; linkage analysis and document clustering; Web caching and content analysis; XML query processing; Web search and personalization; workflow management and enterprise information systems; business processes; deep Web and dynamic content; Web information systems design; ontologies and applicatoins; multimedia, user interfaces, and languages; and peer-to-peer and grid systems.