SC 98-26 Martin Grötschel, Joachim Lügger: Scientific Information Systems and Metadata Appeared in: Classification in the Information Age. Proc. of
the 22nd Annual GfKl Conference, Dresden, March 4-6, 1998.
W. Gaul, H. Locarek-Junge (eds.) Berlin: Springer 1999. Pp.
3-20.
Abstract: This article begins with a short survey on the history of
the
classification of knowledge.
It briefly discusses the traditional means of keeping track of scientific
progress, i.e., collecting, classifying, abstracting, and reviewing all
publications in a field.
The focus of the article, however, is on modern electronic information and
communication systems that try to provide high-quality information by
automatic document retrieval or by using metadata, a new tool to guide
search engines.
We report, in particular, on efforts of this type made jointly
by a number of German scientific societies.
A full version of this paper including all hypertext references, links to online
papers
and references to the literature can be found under the URL:
http://elib.zib.de/math.org.softinf.pub .
Keywords: elektronisches Publizieren,
Metadaten,
Dublin Core,
Klassifikation,
Math-Net
MSC: 94A15
CR: H.4.0