A public digital library based on full-text retrieval: Collections and experience
The NZDL aims to impose structure on anarchic and uncataloged repositories of information, providing information consumers with effective tools to locate and peruse what they need. Our goal is to produce an easy-to-use digital library system that runs on inexpensive computers at information providers’ own sites and offers an information service that information providers themselves maintain. New Zealand’s geographical isolation magnifies the benefits of networked digital libraries, in terms of both cost and timeliness of access to information. We are collaborating with the Medoc project in Germany to provide local indexes to German language technical-reports, and with the J Biological Chemistry in the United States to field-test novel browsing techniques.
The first stage in a study on any subject is to examine and evaluate prior studies onthat subject. Modern computer technologies offer the researcher good facilities todo this easily. However, to do this, it is very important to choose the right tools andright method. The relational database systems are the right tools for this task. Thisarticle offers a database model for collecting the data from the tafsir history booksand converting them to a database. If this model is developed and published as online,it would be very useful data source for tafsir researchers.