DLI Partners Update DLI Partners UpdateJanuary, 1997
* AIP initiates first distributed repository
* Recent upgrade to the OpenText database server
* Ovid DLI Software development
* What's in the Testbed
AIP Initiates First Distributed Repository
The American Institute of Physics has formalized a cooperative arrangement to incorporate much of the technology being developed by the DLI into a later release of its On-line Journal Publishing Service, and to support installation and remote operation of a distributed repository for AIP journals available to the DLI project.
OpenText Database Server
We are in the process of upgrading from OpenText 5.0 to OpenText 6.0, which is a complete redesign of OpenText's database system. This includes changing from Latitude to Livelink, OpenText's new version of the search and indexing engine for the World Wide Web. The Livelink Web version is expected to be introduced in February. In addition, DLI project staff are working on another Web-based approach, utilizing Microsoft Active Server Pages technology.
Ovid DLI Software Development
One obvious limitation of the DLI Testbed client is that it provides author, title, and text word access only to the small corpus of titles presently in the testbed. Users wishing to perform more comprehensive author, title, subject, and abstract searching (using Grainger information tools) must also search the on-line A & I Services contained in the IBIS and Ovid systems. The Ovid system, which resides on a server in the Grainger Library, is presently comprised of the Compendex (Engineering Index) database of close to two million citations with descriptors and abstracts back to 1987, and the INSPEC (electrical engineering, computer science, and physics databases), of some 2.2 million citations with descriptors and abstracts, also dating back to 1987. These two databases collectively examine over 6,000 journals, conference proceedings, and technical reports.
One of the clearly-defined goals of the DLI Project has been to integrate the Testbed with major A & I databases by making the full-text Testbed articles available through A & I Service search software. We are happy to report that software has now been written and implemented that provides the display of full-text Testbed journal articles from citations retrieved within the Ovid search software. The Ovid DLI search software allows searchers of both the Compendex and INSPEC databases to display the full-text of selected articles from the displayed retrieved citation. For example, a user seeking to perform a comprehensive search for articles and conference papers written by a specific author can retrieve a set of relevant references and display individual citations on the screen. As these records are displayed , items available in the DLI Testbed collection or accessible from an alternative full-text publisher repository available on the Web will be indicated by the appearance on the screen of a button labeled "View the Full-Text." The user can then elect to view the full-text from the public workstation via the same mechanisms used in the custom client that is, the Netscape Web client operating in conjunction with the Softquad Panorama SGML viewer or the Adobe Acrobat PDF viewer.
The Ovid DLI software is available at public terminals in the Grainger Library. A web version is in the planning stages. Response by users to this integrated "one-stop-shopping" access to available full-text of articles via the Ovid system has been very positive.
Testbed Status:
As of this month, we have approximately 16,000 articles from five of our publishing partners processed and indexed:
American Institute of Physics (AIP)
Applied Physics Letters (1995 to present)
Journal of Applied Physics (11/96 to present)
Review of Scientific Instruments (10/96 to present)
American Physical Society (APS)
Physical Review Letters (1995 to present)
American Society of Civil Engineering (ASCE)
(1995 - 1996)
Journal of Architectural Engineering
Journal of Aerospace Engineering
Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities
Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering
Journal of Cold Regions Engineering
Journal of Infrastructure Systems
Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering
Journal of Transportation Engineering
Journal of Environmental Engineering
Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice
Journal of Engineering Mechanics
Journal of Energy Engineering
Journal of Geotechnical Engineering
Journal of Hydraulic Engineering
Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering
Journal of Management in Engineering
Journal of Structural Engineering
Journal of Surveying Engineering
Journal of Urban Planning and Development
Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management
Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal and Ocean Engineering
Institute of Electrical Engineers (IEE)
(1995-96, partial both years)
Electronics Letters
IEE Proceedings on
-Science, Measurement and Technology
-Electrical Power Applications
Generation, Transmission and Distribution
-Control Theory and Applications
-Computers and Digital Techniques
-Radar, Sonar and Navigation
-Circuits, Devices and Systems
-Microwaves, antennas and Propagation
-Communications
-Optoelectronics
-Vision, Image and Signal Processing
IEEE Computer Society
(1995)(1996 will be added to the testbed in March, 1997)
IEEE Computer
IEEE Software
IEEE Multimedia
IEEE Design and Test of Computers
IEEE Computational Science and Engineering
IEEE Graphics and Applications
IEEE Expert: Intelligent Systems and their Applications
IEEE Micro: Chips, Systems, Software and Applications
IEEE Parallel and Distribute Technologies
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
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