SEARCHING HETEROGENEOUS MULTILINGUAL BIBLIOGRAPHIC SOURCES

A crucial issue in the design of global Internet systems is the presen ce of many languages for data exchange, indexing, searching, and retri eval. It is especially significant in the library community where ther e is a trend towards incorporating multilingual bibliographic collecti ons into regional and international databases for resource sharing thr ough the WWW. Such systems are distributed and heterogeneous, with lib raries using different proprietary systems and various flavours of sta ndards such as MARC. This paper proposes an architecture for searching distributed heterogeneous multi-Asian language bibliographic sources, and describes a successful pilot implementation of the system. (C) 19 98 Published by Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.