Online and CD-Rom Review: Volume 21 Issue 3

MY KINGDOM FOR AN AGENT? EVALUATION OF AUTONOMY, AN INTELLIGENT SEARCH AGENT FOR THE INTERNET

Jef Tegenbos, Paul Nieuwenhuysen

This paper presents an evaluation of a commercially available intelligent search agent for the Internet. Search robots and search engines can be of great help in finding…

EVALUATING INFOVINE: A SYSTEM TO ENHANCE CORPORATE MEMORY

Clare F. Harvey, Peter Smith, Peter Lund

InfoVine is a software prototype which has been developed to enhance corporate memory and corporate consciousness. It has been implemented in the context of paint technology…

NEW DATABASE PRODUCTS: BUSINESS AND LAW (ISSUE 9)

Martha E. Williams, Sarah McDougal

This is the ninth article on business and law (BSL) databases in a continuing series of articles summarising and commenting on new database products. Two companion articles have…

NEW CD‐ROMS IN BRIEF

1997 World Book Multimedia Encyclopaedia. Designed specifically to meet UK National Curriculum needs of primary and secondary school students. 17 500 articles and 1000 tables…

TOWARDS 2006 — PROPHETS, PRINCES OR POOHBAHS?

Arthur Winzenried

Behind every technological advance there is a provider who has to organise and disseminate the information provided. The role of the future of information managers must be…

THE INTERNET AND THE MARKET

Ben Jeapes

Online & CDROM Review started life 20 years ago, minus the ‘& CDROM’, as a review of the technologies behind and the applications of online information Then, as now, the vendors…

A LEANER, MEANER MARKUP LANGUAGE

SGML is in its second decade of existence but if it weren't for its most famous application, HTML, then few outside specialist circles would have heard of it. SGML of course has…

NEWS ROUNDUP

Network computers everywhere. Once there was a time when this journal had never mentioned the words ‘World Wide Web’ or ‘Internet’. There is a first time for everything.