[66] in Information Retrieval
FYI - Lesk of Bellcore in town thursday
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mitchell N Charity)
Wed Feb 19 16:02:12 1992
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 92 16:00:46 EST
From: mcharity@hq.LCS.MIT.EDU (Mitchell N Charity)
To: elibdev@MIT.EDU
Reply-To: mcharity@lcs.mit.edu
If you wish to talk with Michael Lesk of Bellcore,
he may be available tomorrow (Thursday) afternoon.
Abstract of a recent talk:
"We are developing an online file of 10 years of chemical journal literature,
with both full Ascii text, page images, and manual indexing. This talk will
describe the chemical journal data and how it is scanned and processed to
extract graphics from pages, the kinds of interfaces we are testing; and the
results of our experiments comparing paper, image display, and Ascii-based
display.
This project is a joint effort of the American Chemical Society, Bellcore,
Chemical Abstracts Service, Cornell University, and OCLC."
Lesk's project might be described as: Take 100+ gigabytes of page
images and typesetting tapes of recent chemical journals, and serve it
in several ways (page images, markedup ascii, and a combination), to
Cornell chem professors and grad students on Suns and Macs.
Lesk has interacted with Cornell's docuteck(sp?) printer folk, and
has been involved in microfilm scanning. He has a wealth of details
about what companies and people are doing what.
Copies of papers available for anonymous ftp from flash.bellcore.com,
pub/lesk, *.Z and egan.paper (sp?).
To reach him tomorrow, contact Les Belady (belady@merl.com, phone unknown)
of Mitsubishi Labs (201 Broadway).
mitchell
