Information Studies
  • Year: 2002
  • Volume: 8
  • Issue: 3

Importance of Search and Retrieval in Cd-Rom Full Text Publishing: Experiments Using Pdf Documents and ‘Nitya’ Archival System*

  • Author:
  • K.H. Hussain1, R. Raman Nair2, K. Raveendran Asari3
  • Total Page Count: 8
  • Page Number: 173 to 180

1Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi, Kerala, 68056, India. E-mail:hussain@kfri.org

2Kerala Agricultural University, Kerala, 68056, India. E-mail: ramannair_r@yahoo.com

3Department of Medical Documentation, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam. Kerala, 68600, India. E-mail: kravindran@vsnl.net.in

*Based on a paper presented at the National Seminar on Information Access, Management and Exchange in the Technological Age, Unversity of Calicut, Calicut, Kerala, 28–29 May 2002.

Abstract

CD-ROM has indispensable role to play in the dissemination of electronic information. Full Text archiving and publishing in CD-ROM have already found a special place in the rapidly growing digital libraries. Many of full text CD-ROM titles are coming with thousands of document files, but without efficient retrieval facilities. Paper discusses the growing importance of CD-ROM publishing and the necessity of providing search facilities in full text CDs. ‘Nitya’ is a program for digital archiving giving prime importance for search and retrieval. It can be effectively used for CD-ROM full text publishing.