Converting hard copy documents for electronic dissemination Metadata

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Title

  • Main Title Converting hard copy documents for electronic dissemination

Creator

  • Author: Hoffman, F.
    Creator Type: Personal

Contributor

  • Sponsor: United States. Department of Energy.
    Contributor Type: Organization
    Contributor Info: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)

Publisher

  • Name: Oak Ridge National Laboratory
    Place of Publication: Tennessee
    Additional Info: Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (United States)

Date

  • Creation: 1994-12

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: Since the advent of computer systems, the goal of a paperless office, and even a paperless society, has been pursued. While the normal paper flow in an organization is far from totally automated, particularly for items requiring signatures or authorizations, electronic information dissemination is becoming an almost simple task. The reasons for providing on-line documents are many and include faster and easier access for everyone, elimination of printing costs, reduction of wasted shelf and desk space, and the security of having a centrally-located, always up-to-date document. New computer software even provides the user with the ability to annotate documents and to have bookmarks so that the old scribbled-in and dog-eared manual can be replaced without loosing this `customizability`. Moreover, new hypermedia capabilities mean that documents can be read in a non-linear fashion and can include color figures and photographs, audio, and even animation sequences, capabilities which exceed those of paper. The proliferation of network-based information servers, coupled with the growth of the Internet, has enticed academic, governmental, and even commercial organizations to provide increasing numbers of documents and data bases in electronic form via the network, not just to internal staff, but to the public as well. Much of this information, which includes everything from mundane company procedures to spiffy marketing brochures, was previously published only in hard copy. Converting existing documents to electronic form and producing only electronic versions of new documents poses some interesting challenges to the maintainer or author.
  • Physical Description: 5 p.

Subject

  • Keyword: Information Dissemination
  • Keyword: Information Systems
  • Keyword: Information Needs
  • STI Subject Categories: 99 Mathematics, Computers, Information Science, Management, Law, Miscellaneous
  • Keyword: Internet
  • Keyword: Technology Transfer
  • Keyword: Image Scanners

Source

  • Conference: 18. annual practical conference on communication, Oak Ridge, TN (United States), 3-4 Nov 1994

Collection

  • Name: Office of Scientific & Technical Information Technical Reports
    Code: OSTI

Institution

  • Name: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
    Code: UNTGD

Resource Type

  • Article

Format

  • Text

Identifier

  • Other: DE96005481
  • Report No.: CONF-9411291--1
  • Grant Number: AC05-84OR21400
  • Office of Scientific & Technical Information Report Number: 203421
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metadc667869

Note

  • Display Note: OSTI as DE96005481
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