CINDI: A Virtual Library Indexing and Discovery System.

Desai, Bipin C.; Shinghal, Raijan; Shayan, Nader R.; Zhou, Youquan

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ERIC Number: EJ595490

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Publication Date: 1999

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CINDI: A Virtual Library Indexing and Discovery System.

Desai, Bipin C.; Shinghal, Raijan; Shayan, Nader R.; Zhou, Youquan

Library Trends, v48 n1 p209-33 Sum 1999

Describes a system called CINDI (Concordia INdexing and DIscovery System) for cataloging and searching documents in a distributed virtual library. The document author registers metadata in the form of a semantic header that contains information on syntactic and semantic content, and an expert system fills the semantic header according to accepted library practice. Contains 37 references. (MES)

Descriptors: Automatic Indexing, Bibliographic Databases, Cataloging, Electronic Libraries, Expert Systems, Information Retrieval, Internet, Metadata, Search Strategies, Semantics, Syntax

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive

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Language: English

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Note: Theme issue topic: "Knowledge Discovery in Bibliographic Databases."