Design and development of internet resource navigation database on key disciplines in CALIS project

Abstract

With the rapid development of technology and the wide dissemination of information, many universities and institutions suffer from information overload and have to apply information management to deal with this information chaos in the digital world. During the 9th National 5-year Plan, CALIS started the project of Internet resource navigation database. In this paper, the goal, principle and contents for constructing an Internet resource navigation database on key disciplines are presented. The resource selection criteria and standards for web-based resource description are also described. The progress of the navigation database construction is introduced. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2004.