Although the authoring in web environment is supported by a range of program tools an author could find himself in situations that require the development of additional software.
A profession is, above all, defined by the work it performs in the social division of labour. The traditional profession of a librarian has no monopoly on the work carried out by a digital librarian. The profession of a digital librarian has little in common with the traditional profession of a librarian.
The newspaper called Organizacija znanja (Organization of Knowledge), which is the continuation of the newspaper called COBISS Obvestila (COBISS News), is published also in an electronic form. For this purpose, IZUM has developed a special web application which makes it possible to offer the newspaper contents representing it as a source of information on the web. Modern technologies, such as Java and XML, have been applied.
Searching the Web and the Internet may be ineffective when we use improper search tools and do not understand the basics about these tools. The situation changes noticeably when we have basic skills which allow us both to select search tools suitable for us and make better use of them.
The article describes CORC – the OCLC pilot project on co-operative Web-based resource cataloguing, its formation, objectives and performance. The last part gives a short account of IZUM’s experience of participating in the project.
Analysing the WWW information quality problem leads to a new type of document. The problem of redundancy and quantity of information on WWW can be solved by the systems (webs) of eclectic documents.
