As an increasing number of digital library projects embrace the harvesting of item-level descriptive metadata, issues of description granularity and concerns about potential loss ...
Muriel Foulonneau, Timothy W. Cole, Thomas G. Habi...
The NEAR (Navigating Exhibitions, Annotations and Resources) panel is a method of managing digital collections and user preferences through collaborative filtering and graphically...
Victor Y. Chen, Cheryl Z. Qian, Robert F. Woodbury
Many information systems store their objects in a relational database. If the object schema or the relational schema of an application can change often or in an independent way, it...
A variety of heterogenous data sources is available in the field of molecular biology. Our focus lies on the biological sequence data, i. e. data maintained in collections like EM...
We demonstrate MMS, a system for storing and managing a variety of metadata in a simple, elegant and uniform way. The system is based on two observations. First, that the relation...