The Creation of a Cumulative Index on CAD: "CUMINCAD"

Abstract

To researchers in many disciplines, Internet is quickly becoming the dominating environment to search for publications. Commercial bibliographic databases tend to be too general, are not up-to-date and require special skills and efforts to be searched. On the other hand research is also published on the Web that also enables collaborative creation of references by the specialists in the field. CUMINCAD is such a bibliographic database and compiles papers related to Computer Aided (Architectural) Design. The database is available on the Web and allows searching and browsing in the ways usual on the Web. It provides a ”historical evolution” to learn from previous efforts and draws attention to older original works that could have been ignored because they could not be found on the Web. We believe that CUMINCAD will help focus future CAAD research and improve the education.