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Smart Objects, Dumb Archives -- A User-Centric, Layered Digital. . . (1999)
| Venue: | LAYERED DIGITAL LIBRARY FRAMEWORK,” D-LIB MAGAZINE |
| Citations: | 14 - 3 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Maly99smartobjects,,
author = {Kurt Maly and Michael L. Nelson and Mohammad Zubair},
title = {Smart Objects, Dumb Archives -- A User-Centric, Layered Digital. . . },
booktitle = {LAYERED DIGITAL LIBRARY FRAMEWORK,” D-LIB MAGAZINE},
year = {1999},
pages = {226--227},
publisher = {}
}
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Abstract
Currently, there exist a large number of superb digital libraries, all of which are, unfortunately, vertically integrated and all presenting a monolithic interface to their users. Ideally, a user would want to locate resources from a variety of digital libraries dealing only with one interface. A number of approaches exist to this interoperability issue exist including: defining a universal protocol for all libraries to adhere to; or developing mechanisms to translate between protocols. The approach we illustrate in this paper is to push down the level of universal protocols to one for digital object communication and for communication for simple archives. This approach creates the opportunity for digital library service providers to create digital libraries tailored to the needs of user communities drawing from available archives and individual publishers who adhere to this standard. We have created a reference implementation based on the hyper text transfer protocol (http) with the...
Keyphrases
smart object layered digital digital library universal protocol user community monolithic interface digital library service provider digital object communication reference implementation available archive large number hyper text transfer protocol simple archive interoperability issue individual publisher superb digital library
