Designing an Integrated Digital Library Framework to Support Multiple Heterogeneous Collections

Digital libraries

“…Probably the most influential tool for digital library implementation over the past four years has been the Fedora open source library for a digital repository (http://www.fedora.info). Fedora does not claim to create full‐blown digital libraries for nontechnical authors; various Fedora implementations have been reported throughout the literature, validating its claim to be a robust, generalizable platform (Dong, Xing, Zhou, Zhang, & Jiang, 2004; Pyrounakis, Saidis, Nikolaidou, & Lourdi, 2004).…”

On the Effective Manipulation of Digital Objects: A Prototype-Based Instantiation Approach

“…In [15] we presented a high-level overview of the University of Athens Digital Library (UoA DL) architecture. UoA DL will host several heterogeneous collections in terms of content type, structure, metadata and user requirements, containing both digitised and born digital material.…”

“…In [15] we describe the reasons we have chosen Fedora for the development of UoA DL. Specifically, we use Fedora Repository for handling concerns related to storage, preservation and versioning, searching and indexing, along with metadata interoperability through the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) [8].…”

Implementing digital folklore collections

“…The presented model is based on the concept of separating big and complex collections into simple and distinct entities that can be treated in a digital system as unique digital objects with their own attributes. This concept has been analyzed extensively in [2]. In the next section, we provide a short description of the notebook subcollection structure and the requirements imposed for the cultural items.…”