Digital Libraries - Advancing Open Science

Open Digital Libraries

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...

Advancing the Science of Digital Forensics

0018-9162/12/$31.00 © 2012 IEEE Published by the IEEE Computer Society DECEMBER 2012 25 rough equivalent of today’s file allocation table (FAT) or $Bitmap. A consultant systems programmer came in to show us how to recover the files by reconstructing the VTOC based upon the prior morning’s routine printout of the hard drive contents (yes, we made such a printout every day or two). Since we could...

Advancing Science through Mining Libraries, Ontologies, and Communities*

Life scientists today cannot hope to read everything relevant to their research. Emerging text-mining tools can help by identifying topics and distilling statements from books and articles with increased accuracy. Researchers often organize these statements into ontologies, consistent systems of reality claims. Like scientific thinking and interchange, however, text-mined information (even when...

Computer Science Digital Libraries - a personal view

For computer science there exists no comprehensive bibliographic database like PubMed for biomedical articles or LexisNexis for law. The most important CS digital libraries by ACM, IEEE Computer Society, Springer, Elsevier etc. are isolated systems. Only the ACM Portal / Guide to Computing Literature tries to cover publications by several publishers, but scope, timeliness, and user interface of...