Environmental Digital Library Systems

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  • David L. Hicks
  • Klaus Tochtermann
چکیده

The characteristics of environmental data present a challenge to the providers of this type of information. Both the wide variety of data types and the large size that typify environmental data objects combine to make it especially difficult to manage. Digital library technology shows promise for the management of environmental data. This paper surveys numerous environmental digital library and related systems that have been designed and implemented for this task.

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تاریخ انتشار 1998