The CORE Project: Overview

The CORE project is an electronic library prototype the provides networked access to the full text and graphics content of the American Chemical Society journals and associated Chemical Abstracts Services indexing since 1980 (some 250 journal years of data). The database is coded in SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language) which was translated from the original typography codes, captures the structural richness of the original document and provides flexibility for indexing, searching and display. The prototype provides a full-scale laboratory environment in which to explore issues of database structure, user interface capabilities, and information retrieval questions on a large, real-world scholarly electronic journal database. The complete database, representing more than 600,000 pages of full text and graphics, will be available at Cornell University in late 1994. The major contributors of this electronic library project include:

Relevant publications

Some Images of XSCEPTER

XSCEPTER provides "on-the-fly" formating of SGML as defined by configurable style guides and a DTD, to provide rapid display of scholarly data. The XSCEPTER interface is coupled with NEWTON, OCLC's proprietary search engine, to provide navigational capabilities of the CORE collection.

XSCEPTER main window
Find Box to allow indexed full boolean searching of the CORE database.
Result hit-list of database search
XSDOCUMENT view of article including dynamic table of content, table of graphics and "on-the-fly" rendering of SGML text.
Selection of image from table of graphics allowing hyperlink to referenced text or animation through image list.
Hyperlink of bibliographic reference to either location current document or retrieval of actual citation from database.

eric miller, emiller@oclc.org