Building cooperation between theological libraries

Cooperation between publishers and university libraries

Building Libraries in Prolog

While Prolog has proven useful for writing programs in a variety of domains, it suffers from its lack of support for modularity, particularly for building libraries of routines and data. This paper points out some problems with standard Prolog that make libraries inconvenient. It then describes a solution to those problems based on the concepts of modules and database views.

Building rational cooperation

Experiments have shown that people have a natural taste for cooperation. This paper takes a first step in understanding how formal and informal institutions might be designed to utilize these private tastes to facilitate more efficient economic interactions. We examine a twice-played prisoner’ dilemma in which the total of the stakes in the two periods is fixed, but the distribution of these st...

Building Infrastructures for Digital Libraries

Digital Libraries today are often monolithic systems. In the future, they will dissolve into collections of electronic services. The challenge will be to provide an infrastructure that supports the user in dealing with this multitude of services. Such an infrastructure should offer integrated access to the combined contents of multiple services, it should provide active dissemination of new con...

Building Digital Libraries Made Easy: Toward Open Digital Libraries

Digital libraries (DLs) promote a sharing culture among those who contribute and those who use resources. This same approach works when building Open Digital Libraries (ODLs). Leveraging the intellectual and practical investment made in the Open Archives Initiative through an eXtended Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (XPMH), one can build lightweight protocols to tie together key components tha...