[FYI] DG XIII identifies and describes Web resources

[Horns@t-online.de (Axel H. Horns)]

CORDIS RTD-NEWS/c European Communities, 1998 

 Record Control Number : 12387 
                             Date : 1999-03-08 


Category : Publication

General Information : 

The European Commission, Directorate General XIII, has published
"Identifying and describing web resources", which starts with the view
that the World Wide Web is one of our primary information repositories
- a vast digital library of documents, software, images, and so on,
covering a multitude of subjects and application areas. 

"Still, as we browse the Web, we tend not to dwell on the
technological infrastructure that makes it possible," says author
Laurie Causton. "Even so, not only is this infrastructure fundamental
to the operation of the Web, but to ensure that the Web continues to
deliver information to us, efficiently and reliably, it will need to
evolve. The core mechanisms, such as Internet Protocol (IP), are
developing to accommodate future growth and future needs. At the
application level, initiatives are also under way to impose a more
coherent structure on the information resources themselves." 

The publication explores the concepts, before looking in more detail
at what they are doing. It gives an overview of the current state of
affairs, focussing on the more significant developments and
highlighting any apparent problems. It does not dwell on technical
details and does not aim to be exhaustive or authoritative. Rather, it
aims simply to be informative - to describe what is being done, to
pass comment on what is being done, and to indicate what remains to be
done in the future. 

Data Source Provider : European Commission, DG XIII

Document Reference : European Commission, DG XIII "Identifying and
describing web resources": ISBN 92-824-1516-3; CD-19-98-560-EN-C.

Subject Index Codes : Information Processing, Information Systems

Contact Person : 

To obtain an on-line copy of the publication, please visit the website
at: 

URL: http://www.elpub.org/html/brochures.html 

The printed version can be obtained free of charge from: 

DG XIII E 
Fax +352-4301-38069