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Science 18 September 1998:
Vol. 281. no. 5384, pp. 1784 - 1786
DOI: 10.1126/science.281.5384.1784
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DIGITAL LIBRARIES:
Assembling the World's Biggest Library on Your Desktop

Joseph Alper

The elements of a "universal library," an amalgamation of all recorded human knowledge searchable from your personal computer, are now under development. The gateway to the library would be a simple interface concealing multiple search tools that convert requests for information into formats and languages that can query thousands of individual digital libraries housing text, two- and three-dimensional images, music, maps, and other types of data.

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