Objects, archives and collections

Persistent Archives for Data Collections

Smart Objects and Open Archives

Within the context of digital libraries (DLs), we are making information objects "first-class citizens". We decouple information objects from the systems used for their storage and retrieval, allowing the technology for both DLs and information content to progress independently. We believe dismantling the stovepipe of "DL-archive-content" is the first step in building richer DL experiences for ...

Visualizing Digital Collections of Web Archives

An important problem in web archiving is understanding and presenting how a single page changes over time. This is not only important for researchers, but can also be useful in educating the general public about the temporal and dynamic nature of the web. A common method for presenting webpage change is to display a set of thumbnails of the mementos, or archived pages. Although this can be a us...

Persistent Archives for Data Collections Reagan

Persistent archives are feasible when examined from the perspective of data collections [1,2]. Issues of ingestion, identification, and certification can then be cast in terms of the information models and technologies needed to manage and federate collections [14, 17, 18]. It is interesting to note that the data and information models needed to federate multiple collections in space are the sa...

SODA: Smart Objects, Dumb Archives

We present the Smart Object, Dumb Archive (SODA) model for digital libraries (DLs). The SODA model transfers functionality traditionally associated with archives to the archived objects themselves. We are exploiting this shift of responsibility to facilitate other DL goals, such as interoperability, object intelligence and mobility, and heterogeneity. Objects in a SODA DL negotiate presentation...