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The Heinz Electronic Library Interactive On-Line System (Helios): An Update, Gabrielle Michalek
The Heinz Electronic Library Interactive On-Line System (Helios): An Update, Gabrielle Michalek
Gabrielle Michalek
In February 1994 Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) Libraries embarked on an ambitious project to convert approximately one million pages of the congressional papers of Pennsylvania Senator John Heinz into digital format. [1] Innovative image-management and text-retrieval software created at CMU provides the ability to search and retrieve these papers. Named in memory of the late Senator, the Heinz Electronic Library Interactive On-line System (HELIOS) currently allows researchers to browse, search, view, and print over 434,000 digital images from the collection. Accessible through the campus network and the Internet, HELIOS dramatically increases depth of indexing and quality of retrieval beyond that …
The Heinz Electronic Library Interactive On-Line System: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach, Gabrielle Michalek
The Heinz Electronic Library Interactive On-Line System: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach, Gabrielle Michalek
Gabrielle Michalek
ThiS year Carnegie Mellon University began work to develop a fully electronic historical archive of the papers of the late Senator H. John Heinz III. The project is named HEllOS, the Heinz Electronic-Library Interactive On-line System, in honor of the late Senator. Carnegie Mellon received over one million dollars from the Heinz Family Foundation, Heinz Company Foundation and Heinz Endowments in support of the HEllOS project. The grant supports the establishment of the H. John Heinz III Archives where the Congressional papers of the late Sena tor are being preserved and digitized to make them electronically accessible to students, faculty, …