2 SIGNIFICANT EVENT
The most significant event in the development of the Alexandria
Digital Library (so far) has been the construction of a WWW-accessible
prototype. This prototype integrated acceptable versions of all
four basic components (interface, catalog, storage, and ingest)
and employed significant image-processing and parallel processing
technology. The system is currently being tested by various partners
and is the basis for the publicly-accessible testbed system that
is currently under development and that will be made available
in mid-1996.