The Alexandria Project

Introduction

Welcome to the home page of the Alexandria Project. We are a consortium of researchers, developers, and educators, spanning the academic, public, and private sectors, exploring a variety of problems related to a distributed digital library for geographically-referenced information.

Distributed means the library's components may be spread across the Internet, as well as coexisting on a single desktop. Geographically-referenced means that all the objects in the library will be associated with one or more regions (``footprints'') on the surface of the Earth.

The centerpiece of the Alexandria Project is the Alexandria Digital Library (ADL), an online information system inspired by the Map and Imagery Laboratory (MIL) in the Davidson Library at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The ADL currently provides access over the World Wide Web to a subset of the MIL's holdings, as well as other geographic datasets.

Resources

• ADL on the Web

• Public documents
• Annual progress report (best overview document)
• SNEP - Executive Summary and Volume 1 report

• Participants

• Other digital libraries

• Other interesting sites

• Personnel

• Contact Information

• Job Opportunities

Please take a moment to let us know what you think of the Alexandria Web. Use our online comment form, or send email to webmaster@alexandria.sdc.ucsb.edu, or contact individual Web Team members directly.

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