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DECOMATE II Project

The Telematics for Libraries funded project DECOMATE II: Developing the European digital library for economics, finished its specification phase in August 1998. The following reports are available to the public in electronic form (HTML, PDF) at the project's web address: <http://www.bib.uab.es/decomate2>.

• Analysis of digital resources. This report outlines the digital resources available at the local sites of the project participants, including an analysis of these resources and their suitability to the development of the project.
• Scope of DECOMATE II contents. The report identifies the type of materials and resources to be included in the service, and includes a short study on its main characteristics in view of potential problem areas that can be encountered.
• User study design. The report outlines the methodology to be used to gather qualitative and quantitative feedback, and outlines a preliminary timetable for the user study.
• User requirements, system architecture and conceptual design. This report describes the user requirements and contains the description of the system environment and conceptual design of the system.

Dissemination contact:
Núria Gallart, Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona. Spain.
E-Mail: Nuria.Gallart@uab.es.