Distributed Geolibraries: Spatial Information Resources, Summary of a Workshop

by Panel on Distributed Geolibraries, National Research Council, Environment and Resources Commission on Geosciences, et al.

A distributed geolibrary is a vision for the future. It would permit users to quickly and easily obtain all existing information available about a place that is relevant to a defined need. It is modeled on the operations of a traditional library, updated to a digital networked world, and focused on something that has never been possible in the traditional library: the supply of information in response to a geographically defined need. It would integrate...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309065402
• ISBN13: 9780309065405
• Release Date: July 1999
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 136 Pages
• Dimensions: 6.0" x 9.0"