[91] in Information Retrieval
Feedback on the DLI
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ganderso@Athena.MIT.EDU)
Fri May 15 08:18:07 1992
From: ganderso@Athena.MIT.EDU
To: libtalk@MIT.EDU
Cc: elibdev@MIT.EDU, bog-lib@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 15 May 92 06:12:13 EDT
I've received this response from my IS article on the DLI. On the
flight back from the DARPA meeting, Marilyn and I agreed to begin
a conversation in the DLICC group (Marilyn, Tim McGovern, Tom Owens, and
myself) about what we could do for CD's on the campus net.
I've already received several messages, so it's gratifying to know that
there is a lot of interest out there.
Greg
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From: pat@warren.mit.edu (Patrick Griffin)
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To: ganderso@Athena.MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: DLI
Greg,
This note is in response to your request for comments regarding the DLI system
which was profiled in the May 1992 edition of i/s. I am a graduate student who
uses Athena and labratory computers on a daily basis for roughly 1/2 to 2/3 of
my workday. Ideally, I would like to have access to journals, and some
reference materials on-line. In particular, it would be great to be able to
scan through the latest journals while sitting at my terminal while some program
is running, compiling, etc. I am wondering what the potential is to have
compact disks centrally located which could be loaded into a player and
displayed on my terminal? I realize this requires at least that the journals
are in compact disk form and have some (ideally standardized) graphic format
versus text only format such that graphs and pictures could be displayed
just as they currently appear in the printed journals. I would guess that if
the technology and interest existed, publishers would be interested in providing
what the market demanded.
Now, obviously there are a number of issues which would need to be addressed.
First, publishers are out to make money first and foremost. Therefore some
by use fee would be required, or a measure of overall use on a publication
by publication basis which would determine the cost of a particular publication.
Copyright problems would also have to be dealt with. I think people would
become less scrupulous about printing pages from a document at their own
computers than they already are about photo-copying documents. But I think
charging some fee related to a royalty for each page printed would most likely
increase the income for the publishers as currently people photo-copy at will
without ever reimbursing the publishers/authors.
Well, I am sure this is not a new idea, but I wanted to know whether this
sort of service is within the expected scope of the DLI, or whether the
technology is currently too expensive or not as of yet implemented, or what?
Thanks for your time.
Patrick Griffin. pat@warren.mit.edu
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