A cooperative-relational approach to digital libraries

Copyright @ 2007 Springer-Verlag, Berlin HeidelbergThis paper presents a novel approach to model-driven development of Digital Library (DL) systems. The overall idea is to allow Digital Library systems designers (e.g. information architects, librarians, domain experts) to easily design such systems by using a visual language. We designed a Domain Specific Visual Language for such a purpose and developed a framework supporting it; this framework helps designers by automatically generating code for the defined Digital Library system, so that they do not have to get involved into technical issues concerning its deployment. In our approach, both Human-Computer Interaction and Computer Supported Collaborative Work techniques are exploited when generating interfaces and services for the specific Digital Library domain

Generating collaborative systems for digital libraries: A model-driven approach

This is an open access article shared under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). Copyright @ 2010 The Authors.The design and development of a digital library involves different stakeholders, such as: information architects, librarians, and domain experts, who need to agree on a common language to describe, discuss, and negotiate the services the library has to offer. To this end, high-level, language-neutral models have to be devised. Metamodeling techniques favor the definition of domainspecific visual languages through which stakeholders can share their views and directly manipulate representations of the domain entities. This paper describes CRADLE (Cooperative-Relational Approach to Digital Library Environments), a metamodel-based framework and visual language for the definition of notions and services related to the development of digital libraries. A collection of tools allows the automatic generation of several services, defined with the CRADLE visual language, and of the graphical user interfaces providing access to them for the final user. The effectiveness of the approach is illustrated by presenting digital libraries generated with CRADLE, while the CRADLE environment has been evaluated by using the cognitive dimensions framework

Model-driven software development in the institutional repositories

Los Repositorios Institucionales (RI) se han consolidado en la academia, prueba de ello es el crecimiento en número de registros en los directorios existentes realizado por diferentes vías: autoarchivo por parte de autores, la incorporación de material a cargo de bibliotecarios, entre otras. En este trabajo se hace un relevamiento bibliográfico sobre el uso del enfoque de Desarrollo de Software Dirigido por Modelos (MDD) en los sistemas de RI con el propósito de establecer una relación entre ellos. El MDD es un paradigma de construcción de software que asigna a los modelos un rol central y se derivan modelos que van desde los más abstractos a los más concretos. Este paradigma, además, proporciona un marco de trabajo que permite a los interesados compartir sus puntos de vista y manipular las representaciones de las entidades del dominio. En conclusión, el seguimiento de las diferentes investigaciones relevadas y lo aquí expuesto permiten incentivar implementaciones de software para los RI.The Institutional Repositories (IR) have been consolidated into the academy, the proof of this is the growth in number of records in existing directories made by various means, such as self-archiving by authors and the incorporation of material by librarians. In this paper, a bibliographic survey about the use of the Model-Driven Software Development approach is done (MDD) in the IR systems in order to establish a relationship between them. The MDD is a paradigm for building software that assigns a central role to the models and originates models that range from the most abstract to the most concrete. This paradigm also provides a framework that allows the interested ones to share their points of view and directly manipulate the representations of the domain entities from IR. In conclusion, the monitoring of the various researches, and what is expressed here, allow to encourage the implementation of software for IR.Servicio de Difusión de la Creación Intelectual (SEDICI

El desarrollo de software dirigido por modelos en los repositorios institucionales

Los Repositorios Institucionales (RI) se han consolidado en la academia, prueba de ello es el crecimiento en número de registros en los directorios existentes realizado por diferentes vías: autoarchivo por parte de autores, la incorporación de material a cargo de bibliotecarios, entre otras. En este trabajo se hace un relevamiento bibliográfico sobre el uso del enfoque de Desarrollo de Software Dirigido por Modelos (MDD) en los sistemas de RI con el propósito de establecer una relación entre ellos. El MDD es un paradigma de construcción de software que asigna a los modelos un rol central y se derivan modelos que van desde los más abstractos a los más concretos. Este paradigma, además, proporciona un marco de trabajo que permite a los interesados compartir sus puntos de vista y manipular las representaciones de las entidades del dominio. En conclusión, el seguimiento de las diferentes investigaciones relevadas y lo aquí expuesto permiten incentivar implementaciones de software para los RI.Servicio de Difusión de la Creación Intelectual (SEDICI

A cooperative-relational approach to digital libraries

This paper presents a novel approach to model-driven development of Digital Library (DL) systems. The overall idea is to allow Digital Library systems designers (e.g. information architects, librarians, domain experts) to easily design such systems by using a visual language. We designed a Domain Specific Visual Language for such a purpose and developed a framework supporting it; this framework helps designers by automatically generating code for the defined Digital Library system, so that they do not have to get involved into technical issues concerning its deployment. In our approach, both Human-Computer Interaction and Computer Supported Collaborative Work techniques are exploited when generating interfaces and services for the specific Digital Library domain. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007