A User-Centered Database from the Computer Science Literature

这个项目包括开发和测试一个基于计算机科学文献的超媒体数据库。人机交互和信息存储与检索研究正在被应用于开发以用户为中心的数据库开发和访问的新范式。本地测试由佛罗里达州立大学的教职员工和学生完成，另外还有通过互联网进行的测试。由计算机协会提供的计算机科学文献正在被改造，以更好地服务于广泛的计算机从业者的需要。基于对计算机专业人员的采访和对现有出版物的分析，正在确定计算中使用的“对象”，以便定制面向对象的数据库，包括算法、算法描述、书目记录、文章全文、评论、数据、页面图像、并且可以存储相关的多媒体，并进行适当的链接，以供搜索和浏览。新的最小完美散列和图分区算法提供了对大型分布式对象图的有效访问。这个项目的结果是，在生成的电子档案中定位和操作信息将变得更加容易，这将有助于阅读、写作、注释和共享。在这个项目中使用的软件和方法将帮助其他领域开发具有多媒体功能的复杂电子档案。

This project involves developing and testing a hypermedia database based on the computer science literature. Human- computer interaction and information storage and retrieval research are being applied to develop a new paradigm of user- centered database development and access. Local testing is being done by faculty and students at VPI&SU, with additional testing over the Internet. Computer science literature provided by the Association for Computing Machinery is being transformed to better serve the needs of a wide spectrum of computing practitioners. Based on interviews with computer professionals and analysis of existing publications, "objects" used in computing are being identified so that a tailored object- oriented database including algorithms, algorithm descriptions, bibliographic records, full texts of articles, reviews, data, page images, and related multimedia can be stored and appropriately linked for searching and browsing. New minimal perfect hashing and graph partitioning algorithms provide efficient access to the large, distributed graph of objects. As a result of this project, it will be easier to locate and manipulate information in the resulting electronic archive, which will facilitate reading, writing, annotating, and sharing. Software and methodology used in this project will aid other fields as they develop sophisticated electronic archives with multimedia capabilities.