Library Cooperative Developments

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, ...

Digital library research: current developments and trends

This column gives an overview of current trends in digital library research under the following headings: digital library architecture, systems, tools and technologies; digital content and collections; metadata; interoperability; standards; knowledge organisation systems; users and usability; legal, organisational, economic, and social issues in digital libraries.

Library Effectiveness in Automated Cooperative Systems

OverCite: A Cooperative Digital Research Library

CiteSeer is a well-known online resource for the computer science research community, allowing users to search and browse a large archive of research papers. Unfortunately, its current centralized incarnation is costly to run. Although members of the community would presumably be willing to donate hardware and bandwidth at their own sites to assist CiteSeer, the current architecture does not fa...

Recent Developments in the Pytough Scripting Library for Tough2

PyTOUGH, a Python scripting library for automating TOUGH2 simulations, was publicly released as free opensource software in 2011. Since then, it has been used in a wide variety of TOUGH2 modelling applications, particularly for complex simulations which would be difficult or impossible using traditional manual or graphical workflows. It has also been incorporated into at least two graphical int...