Towards support for personalization in distributed digital library settings
David L. Hicks, Klaus Tochtermann · 2001
Introduction The world of information today is an increasingly diverse and distributed one. Both the amount and variety of information available in digital form continue to increase at a rapid rate. Evolving network infrastructures enable large information repositories to be queried and accessed from virtually anywhere. These trends in the availability and management of information have important implications for knowledge workers. In order to work effectively, knowledge workers must increasingly be prepared to look to digital sources, including those available over the network, for more and more of their information needs. Remotely located information items managed by external systems distributed across networks represent an important part of the overall information needs of knowledge workers. For example, an employee in the process of preparing an environmental impact report might need to gather information from several sources, interacting with a geographic information serv