Title :
A comparison of two educational resource discovery systems
Author :
Sumner, Tamara ; Bhushan, Sonal ; Ahmad, Faisal ; Davis, Lynne
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Colorado Univ., Boulder, CO, USA
Abstract :
We describe the results from a pilot study that compared two different discovery systems designed and built to operate in the same educational digital library - one based on searching over metadata records and another hybrid system which combined metadata and content-based indexing.
Keywords :
content-based retrieval; digital libraries; indexing; meta data; content-based indexing; digital library; educational resource discovery system; hybrid system; metadata record; pilot study; Catalogs; Computer science; Content based retrieval; Costs; Humans; Indexing; Information retrieval; Personnel; Software libraries; Uniform resource locators;
Conference_Titel :
Digital Libraries, 2003. Proceedings. 2003 Joint Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-1939-3
DOI :
10.1109/JCDL.2003.1204926
