A Browsable Subject Hierarchy for E-Books
Senior Project: 2001-2002
Ryan Fuller, Erik Karas, Randall Minster and Joshua Prismon
The Boulder-based company netLibrary allows libraries and other educational
institutions to purchase personalized collections of electronic books, which
are also known as e-books. Patrons of these institutions can then check out a
copy of an e-book from the institution's collection if it is available, reading
them via an Internet browser. This is analogous to a physical library where
there is a given set of books and a given number of copies of each book, except
that the books are in an electronic media.
The only way for patrons to search through a library's collection is through
the explicit entry of the books' descriptive data such as Title, Author,
Subject, Keyword, Publisher, Publication Year or ISBN. To allow patrons to
utilize their e-book collections more efficiently and in a manner that
resembles an actual library more closely, netLibrary wanted to provide a way to
browse through the e-book collections by subject matter. This would allow users
to find the e-book they desire as well as related works in one broad search in
order to give the online collection a more traditional library structure via
an Internet browser.
The solution is a Browsable Subject Hierarchy for e-Books. The software
provides a method for users to browse the subject hierarchy, as well as
administrative tools that allow for the management of the content of the
subject hierarchy. The project was implemented in a .NET framework in a
Windows environment.
 Maintainer Interface
End User Web Interface
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