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eLINKs to eDOCs – Getting it “Just Right” ! |
| Sjoerd Vogt, The Dialog Corporation, Whitney, Great Britain | |
| Information available over the web is increasing exponentially, but searchers continue to recognise the enormous value of secondary information as a stepping stone to the primary. The traditional abstract & index databases are able to find the proverbial needle in a haystack where web search engines fail abysmally. However - users increasingly expect to be able to link directly from the secondary information source to the primary full-text, and many publishers and aggregators already have such e-Linking technologies in place. The Dialog Corporation has also recently launched an e-linking service for Datastar and for the OnDisc range of products – and will be adding e-linking to Dialog later this year. What was Dialog able to learn from those organisations who paved the way – and what were the choices that had to be made? |