Resumen
Industrial designers learn from the experts in the human sciences as well as from their companies' collective memories. Design of semantic information retrieval for digital libraries raises several issues that call for cross-disciplinary co-operation with such human science disciplines as psychology, sociology, and information science. Therefore, an international research network called the Network for Engineering Design and Human Science was established in 1996 with participation by universities in Canada, Denmark, England, and the U.S., and Danfoss A/S, a Danish manufacturer. The aim is to demonstrate how the solution of basic problems in the design of digital libraries can benefit from human science theories and models when applying digital libraries to industrial engineering design. Corporate memory is an important information source, including the information and knowledge available in an organization in terms of people's experience from their work histories and the written documentation of that work. Such study is needed to judge the possibilities and limitations of the transfer of their information to digital libraries.