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LIBRES 2.9  Notes & Queries

1.  Information supply by CD-ROM (21 lines)
2.  More info on tools for CD-ROM prodn (27 lines)

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From:     L.R.A.Melton@(Laury Melton) open.ac.uk
Subject:  CD-ROM Libraries and CD-ROM and Libraries

               INFORMATION SUPPLY BY CD-ROM

The International Centre for Distance Learning at the UK Open
University (ICDL) is involved, with National Council for Educational
Technology (NCET) in a project for the Commonwealth Secretariat,
looking at what might be possible in terms of the supply of
information on CD-ROM, including full text, to Commonwealth academic
and research institute libraries.

We know that a number of bodies have been working in this area for
some time and that there are ongoing projects, such as ADONIS, and
Cornell's investigation of Agricultural literature, that are clearly of
interest.  In the time scale we have available we are going to have
difficulty in making contact with everything that is being done,
though we hope to identify most of the published literature.

We should like to hear from anybody working in this area of interest,
ie. supply of library type information in developing countries,
particularly via CD-ROM.  What projects are ongoing?  How far have
they got?  What has already been made available?  Papers in press?

Please respond direct to  L.R.A.MELTON@UK.AC.OPEN
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Subject: More info on tools for CD-ROM prodn?
From: morrista@UC.EDU

Thanks to everyone who sent information and suggestions regarding
authoring and retrieval tools for producing/searching CD-ROMs.  We've
begun tracking down information, and trying to evaluate, a number of
products, including but not limited to Ntergaid's HyperWriter, askSAM,
hyperREZ, KAware, Folio Views, and BRS/Search for MS-DOS.

Particularly in regard to the last three (KAware, Folio, and
BRS/Search for MS-DOS)
        Can anyone give me first-hand comments regarding the construction of a
        database with the product, including the type and amount of effort
        required to markup or otherwise prepare data for inclusion into the
        database?

Particularly in regard to BRS/Search for MS-DOS
        Can anyone give me first-hand comments regarding the "hypertext"
        linking features and their implementation?  We are familiar with the
        searching and general database arrangments of the BRS/Search products
        for VMS, but have not gotten much information on the
        mechanics/capabilities of the linking features of the MS-DOS product.

So far we have only seen a working copy of Folio, but are working on
arrangements to try other products as well before making our decision.
Any experiences/anecdotes you can share would be very welcome.

Ted Morris, University of Cincinnati
Medical Center Information and Communications
Information Research & Development
morrista@uc.edu  513-558-0177V, 513-558-0758F