Aontas: The CaberNet Technical Abstracts Service

Abstract

CaberNet is the ESPRIT network of excellence in distributed systems consisting of several European research groups. CaberNet has industrial affiliates who receive regular information about the research activities of CaberNet members. Most CaberNet members produce technical reports which are of interest to the industrial affiliates and other researchers world-wide. This document describes the design and implementation of a unified technical report service. A contributing CaberNet site just has to make a bibliography available on a local machine. This bibliography is retrieved by a central site and any new or revised records are placed into a database. These records are processed by a professional library cataloguer who ensures that the information is relevant, complete and correct. The processed records may be searched over the world-wide-web and may be used to generate a summary of recent technical reports that is given to the industrial affiliates.