XML技術と学術コミュニケーション

Due to progress in information technologies, particularly emergence of electronic journals, scholarly communication is drastically changing. Besides current information environment we have seen is a distributed information one where repositories of publishers, abstracting & indexing services, local/consortial repositories & aggregators are located. On the other hand very stable and fulfilled information searching tools are available including standardized webs as searching tool, browsers as interface, HTTP technologies, standardized languages. Under such situations to build an information system by integrating those information resources and incorporating those tools is a big issue not only for information personnel but also for system designers to meet individual needs of organizations they are affiliated with. Here is XML technologies which enable to link resources and make an effective integrated information system. The speaker of this lecture describes the following items; change in scholarly communication, distributed information environment, details of XML technologies, metadata and linking technologies, trends or future of publishers and libraries of which roles are intermediary in scholarly communication, and Illinois Testbed Project, large-size journal full text project.