@techreport{TR-IC-97-25,
  number = {IC-97-25},
  author = {de Oliveira, Juliano Lopes and Gonçalves, Marcos André and Medeiros, Claudia Bauzer},
  title = {Designing and Implementing the User Interface of Geographic
Digital Libraries},
  month = {December},
  year = {1997}, 
  institution = {Institute of Computing, University of Campinas},
  note = {In English, 34 pages.
    \par\selectlanguage{english}\textbf{Abstract}
      Geographic data are useful for a large set of applications, such as
      urban planning and environmental control. These data are, however,
      very expensive to acquire and maintain. Moreover, their use is often
      restricted, for lack of dissemination mechanisms. Digital libraries
      are a good approach for increasing data availability and therefore
      reducing cost, since they provide efficient storage and access to
      large volumes of data. Geographic applications can diminish their
      costs by reusing and sharing data through Geographic Digital Libraries
      (GDL). One major drawback to this approach is that it creates the
      necessity of providing facilities for a large and heterogeneous
      community of users to search and interact with these Geographic
      Libraries. We present a solution for this problem, based on a
      framework that allows the design and construction of customizable user
      interfaces for GDL applications. This framework relies on two main
      concepts: a Geographic User Interface Architecture and a Geographic
      Digital Library Model.
  }
}