Development of the electronic library "Ariadne" (1)

—Issues related to the systems design—

Abstract

This paper is the first of a series of five papers which deal with the electronic library "Ariadne". In this paper, after discussing the differences between traditional libraries and the electronic library, the goals of the electronic library to be aimed at are examined. Then, necessary functions for realizing the goals are outlined and systems configuration, user interface, support functions for system construction, network architecture are explained in detail. Those functions to be dealt with in subsequent papers are mentioned only briefly.