Greenstone: A Platform for Distributed Digital Library Applications

Proceedings of the 6th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries

2006

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FRBR (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records)is a promising framework for supporting rich indexation, and therefore rich interaction, in digital libraries. However, it is poorly reported in the digital library research literature and practical examples of its use are seldom discussed. In this paper, we introduce an implemented architecture for FRBR support that can supplement existing digital library systems. We also demonstrate the benefits gained by the user when FRBR data is used to enrich the user's interaction with the digital library.

“…These identifiers are commonly used by http requests and DL protocol calls [1]. However, in the case of FRBR, we require identifiers for each type of entity (work, expression, etc.).…”

Section: Work and Document Identifiersmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Despite many features being shared between different protocols [1], none of the existing common features cover the functionality we have provided over a FRBR database. Neither are there equivalent services in advanced protocols (e.g.…”

Section: Integrating Frbr Into a Digital Librarymentioning

confidence: 99%

FRBR

Proceedings of the 6th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries

2006

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“…The filters permit features such as search of the full text of a document or search in a piece of music to be used without reimprisoning complex code. Given the relative similarity of DL protocols for services such as searching [1] and their small number, this approach can readily be applied to a number of popular DL systems.…”

Section: Local Alertingmentioning

confidence: 99%

A generic alerting service for digital libraries

Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries

Hinze

2005

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Users of modern digital libraries (DLs) can keep themselves up-to-date by searching and browsing their favorite collections, or more conveniently by resorting to an alerting service. The alerting service notifies its clients about new or changed documents. Proprietary and mediating alerting services fail to fluidly integrate information from differing collections. So far, no sophisticated service has been proposed that is integrated with the digital library software and covers heterogeneous and distributed collections. This paper analyses the conceptual requirements of this much-sought after service for digital libraries. We demonstrate that the differing concepts of digital libraries and its underlying technical design has extensive influence (a) the expectations, needs and interests of users regarding an alerting service, and (b) on the technical possibilities of the implementation of the service. Our findings will show that the range of issues surrounding alerting services for digital libraries, their design and use is greater than one may anticipate. We also show that, conversely, the requirements for an alerting service have considerable impact on the concepts of DL design. Our findings should be of interest for librarians as well as system designers. We highlight and discuss the far-reaching implications for the design of, and interaction with, libraries. This paper discusses the lessons learned from building such a distributed alerting service. We present our prototype implementation as a proof-of-concept for an alerting service for open DL software.

“…The trend towards increasingly open, flexible architectures can be traced in the development of digital library protocols [1]. The highly successful Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) has provided a simple base-line for metadata access, and subsequent work strives to base component-based, modular protocols upon it [10].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

A new framework for building digital library collections

Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries

Bainbridge

Don

et al. 2005

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This paper introduces a new framework for building digital library collections and contrasts it with existing systems. It describes a significant new step in the development of a widely-used open-source digital library system, Greenstone, which has evolved over many years. It is supported by a fresh implementation, which forced us to rethink the entire design rather than making incremental improvements. The redesign capitalizes on the best ideas from the existing system, which have been refined and developed to open new avenues through which digital librarians can tailor their collections. We demonstrate its flexibility by showing how digital library collections can be extended and altered to satisfy new requirements.