Optical Disc Technology for Information Management.
Eugenia K. Brumm · Annual Review of Information Science and Technology · 1991
The author argues in favor of optical disc (OD) technology for the management of information because the paperless office has not been achievied. The time, cost, and investement required for paper-based solutions are driving organizations to examine the feasability of optical disc (OD) document management systems. The author review summarizes the literature on document image processing from 1988 through the summer of 1990, with occasional reference, focusing on what has appeared since the 1987 ARIST chapter by LUNIN on electronic image information. Rather than emphazing technology, this review is devoted to either new issues or those that have been more fully discussed in the past three years -viz., cost, legality, standards, records management topics, conversion, major vendor commitment, software, networking, integration, indexing, and performance capabilities. The most common terms are used interchangeably throughout this chapter. This chapter focuses on WORM (write once, read many) technology and on rewritable (erasable) optical discs (and not on CD-ROM, read-only devices)