CD-ROMs and Locally-Mounted Databases

ATA Packet Interface for CD - ROMs Small Form Factor Committee

Interactive Education: Transitioning CD-ROMs to the Web

CD-ROM publishing of interactive multimedia has generally taken the model of the printing press and transferred it into the new digital medium. Even when presented as interactive multimedia, the content itself is frozen in time and not updatable. This is frustrating since a new CD-ROM becomes old hat as soon as it is pressed. More than a year ago we integrated most of Jane Goodall's fieldwork a...

Characterization of CD-ROMs for Emulation-Based Access

Memory institutions have already collected large amounts of digital objects, predominantly CD-ROMs. Some of them are already inaccessible with current systems, most of them will be soon. Emulation offers a viable strategy for long-term access to these publications. However, these collections are huge and the objects are missing technical metadata to setup a suitable emulated environment. In thi...

Collecting Full-Text CD-ROMs in Literature: Theory, Format, and Selection

COLLECTING FULL-TEXT CD-ROMs FOR a humanities library requires an examination of literary research and the way literature is taught. Radical changes in both theory and technology expanded the sorts of texts literary scholars study. They also revived and reinvented textual scholarship and editorial reconstructions. This means a CD-ROM is worth purchasing if it provides material about the histori...

Images of literacy in reference CD- ROMs and search websites for children

In the technologised society, the new information and communication technologies (ICTs) are becoming one of the main areas and tools of literacy activity. ICTs are also becoming one of the active ‘participants’ of literacy education. In the present paper, I discuss my ongoing doctoral research into the discursive construction of the child as a literate subject in reference CDROMs, online encycl...