Digital Libraries can be considered islands of specialized collections on the Web, which have their own management policy to control publishing and access, offering an environment...
With the growth in digital libraries and standardization of protocols for metadata sharing, it is becoming feasible to build federated discovery services which aggregate metadata ...
Kailash Bhoopalam, Kurt Maly, Mohammad Zubair, Rav...
Traditional access control models are often found to be inadequate for digital libraries. This is because the user population for digital libraries is very dynamic and not complete...
Abstract. Nowadays, digital libraries are inherently dispersed over several peers of a steadily increasing network. Dedicated peers may provide specialized, computationally expensi...
Abstract. The transition from traditional paper libraries to digital libraries enables new strategies for the use and maintenance of artifact collections. We present an organisatio...
We consider the problem of collaborative search across a large number of digital libraries and query routing strategies in a peerto-peer (P2P) environment. Both digital libraries a...
Matthias Bender, Sebastian Michel, Christian Zimme...
We present iClusterDL, a self-organising overlay network that supports information retrieval and filtering functionality in a digital library environment. iClusterDL is able to han...
Paraskevi Raftopoulou, Euripides G. M. Petrakis, C...
Digital Libraries are complex information systems that involve rich sets of digital objects and their respective metadata, along with multiple organizational structures and servic...
Abstract. The digital library field is recently broadening its scope of applicability and it is also continuously adapting to the frequent changes occurring in the internet society...
Giuseppe Amato, Paolo Bolettieri, Franca Debole, F...
Maintenance will be critical to digital libraries, especially those that promote broad access to diverse, informal materials. If ignored, maintenance issues within the digital lib...