In 1992, the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) awarded a three-year grant to the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI) and five research universities to build a large-scale, distributed digital library of computer science technical reports produced by project participants. The participating universities were Carnegie Mellon University, Cornell University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, and the University of California at Berkeley. CNRI served as a collaborator and agent for the project.
The Computer Science Technical Reports (CS-TR) project was one of the earliest sustained investigations into the system engineering of digital libraries, and it pioneered multi-institutional collaborative research in this increasingly important area. The CS-TR project investigated a broad spectrum of technical, social, and legal issues related to the development and implementation a very large, heterogeneous, distributed digital library.
The CS-TR project created a prototype digital library service that included a large collection of technical reports; an exchange format for bibliographic data (RFC 1357, which was superseded by RFC 1807); a distributed delivery protocol (Dienst) for information on the World-Wide Web; an information awareness service (Sift); an approach to interoperability (the Kahn and Wilensky paper); and a Web catalog tool (Lycos).
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