Title :
The Alexandria Digital Library and the Alexandria Digital Earth Prototype
Author_Institution :
University of California
Abstract :
The Alexandria Digital Library, together with its follow-on - the Alexandria Digital Earth Prototype Project - is one of the flagship projects of the NSF/NASAA/...Digital Library Initiative. Uniquely among these projects, ADL is a georeferenced library i.e. a library in which the principal mode of access to information is by specifying the location of the information on the surface of the Earth. The most immediate application of this technology is in support of a library of maps, aerial photographs and remote sensing images, and ADL is now run as an operational service by UCSB´s map and image library, one of the largest such libraries in the US.
Keywords :
digital libraries; geographic information systems; visual databases; Alexandria Digital Earth Prototype project; Alexandria Digital Library; NASAA Digital Library Initiative; NSF Digital Library Initiative; UCSB map; aerial photographs; georeferenced library; image library; maps; remote sensing images; Computer science; Earth; Education; Geography; Geoscience; Information retrieval; NASA; Prototypes; Software libraries; Space technology;
Conference_Titel :
Digital Libraries, 2004. Proceedings of the 2004 Joint ACM/IEEE Conference on
Print_ISBN :
1-58113-832-6
DOI :
10.1109/JCDL.2004.1336214
