Overview of Digital Library Components and Developments

Digital libraries are being built upon a firm foundation of prior work as the high-end information systems of the future. A component architecture approach is becoming popular, with well established support for key components like the repository, especially through the Open Archives Initiative. We consider digital objects, metadata, harvesting, indexing, searching, browsing, rights management, linking, and powerful interfaces. Flexible interaction will be possible through a variety of architectures, using buses, agents, and other technologies. The field as a whole is undergoing rapid growth, supported by advances in storage, processing, networking, algorithms, and interaction. There are many initiatives and developments, including those supporting education, and these will certainly be of benefit in Latin America

Atti del IX Convegno Annuale AIUCD. La svolta inevitabile: sfide e prospettive per l'Informatica Umanistica.

La nona edizione del convegno annuale dell'Associazione per l'Informatica Umanistica e la Cultura Digitale (AIUCD 2020; Milano, 15-17 gennaio 2020) ha come tema “La svolta inevitabile: sfide e prospettive per l'Informatica Umanistica”, con lo specifico obiettivo di fornire un'occasione per riflettere sulle conseguenze della crescente diffusione dell’approccio computazionale al trattamento dei dati connessi all’ambito umanistico. Questo volume raccoglie gli articoli i cui contenuti sono stati presentati al convegno. A diversa stregua, essi affrontano il tema proposto da un punto di vista ora più teorico-metodologico, ora più empirico-pratico, presentando i risultati di lavori e progetti (conclusi o in corso) che considerino centrale il trattamento computazionale dei dati

A Digital Library Component Assembly Environment

Digital libraries (DLs) represent an important evolutionary step towards accessing structured digital information. DLs are often built from scratch or by using proprietary monolithic software that is often difficult to customise and extend to meet changing requirements. Researchers are beginning to realise that this is not an ideal solution and as a result, are creating component suites and accompanying protocols to encourage the creation of modular DLs. Despite the introduction of component models, it is not immediately apparent how they can be seamlessly assembled to produce diverse, yet fully functional, component-based digital library systems without knowledge of the underlying protocols. This dissertation presents a graphical user interface and its associated framework for creating DL systems from distributed components, consequently shielding DL architects from the complexity of using components models and taking advantage of the inherent benefits of the component programming paradigm. The framework introduced in this dissertation was designed to be generic enough to be adopted for the assembly of a variety of component-based systems over and beyond the digital library community. After being tested on over thirty inexperienced users and modelling a number of existing DL systems, graphically assembling distributed components has been shown to be a viable approach to simplify the creation of modular DLs from a pool of heterogeneous components

Mutations du livre à l\u27heure de l\u27internet (Les)

Un ouvrage de synthèse de 1971 à nos jours, basé sur le suivi de l\u27actualité francophone et internationale, et issu des multiples liens tissés sur la toile avec nombre de professionnels du livre depuis 1998. L’internet et les technologies numériques bouleversent le monde du livre. Imprimé sous de multiples formes depuis plus de cinq siècles, le livre se convertit. Si le livre imprimé a toujours sa place, d’autres supports se développent, et les habitudes de travail changent. On voit apparaître les textes électroniques, les bibliothèques numériques, les librairies en ligne, les éditeurs électroniques, les encyclopédies en ligne, les oeuvres hypermédias, les logiciels de lecture et les appareils de lecture dédiés. Le web devient une vaste encyclopédie et le patrimoine mondial est en cours de numérisation. Le papier électronique est pour bientôt. Basé sur le suivi de l’actualité et sur une centaine d’entretiens, ce livre tente de faire le tour de la question. Il est complété par une chronologie détaillée et une liste de sites web