CONCERTED ACTION ON MUSIC
INFORMATION IN LIBRARIES
 
HARMONICA

 
 

Local and Networked Access to
Digital Information Collections
 
WP 3: Networking and Digitisation
 
 
Deliverable 3.4
Project: PROLIB/HARMONICA 10453
European Commission
TELEMATICS FOR LIBRARIES

 

 

Version : 1
Date : Sept. 4th, 1997
Author : SIEMENS
Confidentiality : Public
Status : final

 


 
 

Table of Contents:

3.4 Local and Networked Access *


 
                 The table below indicates the currently common WAN paths and their transmission capacities.  
WAN Type
Net Bandwidth
Operating Costs
public telephone network
300-33600 bit/s
inexpensive
ISDN
64 kbit/s - 2Mbit/s
inexpensive
ATM paths
25 - 622 Mbit/s
expensive
 

      1. File system with naming conventions. Search utilities are provides by the operating system.
      2. automatic indexing based on context. WAIS (Wide area information service) is an example.
      3. Z39.50 implementation. High-structured index information according to library standards are used for searches. See more information on this in former chapters.