Building Broadband Networks

The California Digital Library (CDL) supports access to statewide multimedia resources and development of an experimental infrastructure for interlinking distributed archival collections. Approaches for metadata management are under consideration.
The Stanford University Digital Library Technologies Project supports dependable access to electronic library resources via wireline and wireless networks. Protocols for implementation of a distributed replicated Web cache, strategies for using the 3Com Palm Pilot for library applications, approaches for intellectual property protection, query translators for enabling library users to compose search requests, and filtering tools for identifying relevant documents are in development. The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), the University of California at Santa Barbara (UC Santa Barbara), and the University of California at Berkeley (UCB) participate in this initiative.
Sponsored by NSF, DARPA, and NASA, the University of California at Berkeley (UCB) digital library project supports development of technologies and tools for accessing massive distributed digital collections of video maps, aerial photographs, geographical data, botanical datasets, environmental reports, and satellite images. Tools for content analysis, annotation, multimedia indexing, image analysis, and seamless retrieval of DL resources are in development.
The University of California at Santa Barbara (UC Santa Barbara) Alexandria Digital Library (ADL) project supports implementation of distributed digital libraries containing geospatial multimedia resources such as map records, images, gazetteers, aerial photographs, scientific...