276 research outputs found
Core Services in the Architecture of the National Digital Library for Science Education (NSDL)
We describe the core components of the architecture for the (NSDL) National
Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology Education Digital Library.
Over time the NSDL will include heterogeneous users, content, and services. To
accommodate this, a design for a technical and organization infrastructure has
been formulated based on the notion of a spectrum of interoperability. This
paper describes the first phase of the interoperability infrastructure
including the metadata repository, search and discovery services, rights
management services, and user interface portal facilities
Collaboration Enabling Internet Resource Collection-Building Software and Technologies
Over the last decade the Library of the University of California, Riverside
and its collaborators have developed a number of systems, service designs,
and projects that utilize innovative technologies to foster better Internet
finding tools in libraries and more cooperative and efficient effort in Internet
link and metadata collection building. The open-source software
and projects discussed represent appropriate technologies and sustainable
strategies that we believe will help Internet portals, digital libraries, virtual libraries,
library catalogs-with-portal-like-capabilities (IPDVLCs), and related
collection-building efforts in academia to better scale and more accurately
anticipate and meet the needs of scholarly and educational users.published or submitted for publicatio
Bridging the gap between digital libraries and e-learning
Digital Libraries (DL) are offering access to a vast amount of digital
content, relevant to practically all domains of human knowledge, which makes it
suitable to enhance teaching and learning. Based on a systematic literature review,
this article provides an overview and a gap analysis of educational use of DLs.The research work presented in this paper is partially supported by the FP7 Grant
316087 AComIn ”Advanced Computing for Innovation”, funded by the European Commission in the FP7 Capacity Programme in 2012-2016.peer-reviewe
Contexts and Contributions: Building the Distributed Library
This report updates and expands on A Survey of Digital Library Aggregation Services, originally commissioned by the DLF as an internal report in summer 2003, and released to the public later that year. It highlights major developments affecting the ecosystem of scholarly communications and digital libraries since the last survey and provides an analysis of OAI implementation demographics, based on a comparative review of repository registries and cross-archive search services. Secondly, it reviews the state-of-practice for a cohort of digital library aggregation services, grouping them in the context of the problem space to which they most closely adhere. Based in part on responses collected in fall 2005 from an online survey distributed to the original core services, the report investigates the purpose, function and challenges of next-generation aggregation services. On a case-by-case basis, the advances in each service are of interest in isolation from each other, but the report also attempts to situate these services in a larger context and to understand how they fit into a multi-dimensional and interdependent ecosystem supporting the worldwide community of scholars. Finally, the report summarizes the contributions of these services thus far and identifies obstacles requiring further attention to realize the goal of an open, distributed digital library system
Search Interoperability, OAI, and Metadata: Handout for METRO Workshop
Handout for the workshop on the OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting given for METRO on December 8, 2006
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