Web Review: Perseus Digital Library

Building a “FRBR-Inspired” Catalog: The Perseus Digital Library Experience

Explicit and Implicit Searching in the Perseus Digital Library

The Perseus Digital Library (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu) has three different kinds of search tools, each of which presents its results in a different way. Two of them, the wordsearch tool and the Perseus Lookup Tool, allow users to request searches of the texts and the databases of the digital library. The third search tool works transparently on the user’s behalf, and is tightly integrated i...

HGL: A Web-Enabled Geospatial Digital Library

Increasingly, institutions are implementing technology to search and deliver their geospatial data and metadata holdings via the Web. As the quantity of these holdings grows, both private and public institutions are seeking scaleable, robust and non-proprietary solutions. With the widespread adoption of metadata standards taking a strengthening role in the daily practices of GIS professionals w...

Building a Digital Library of Web News

We introduce a new information system for organization of a Digital Library of news articles found on the Web, with automatic topic classification. We present our strategies to deal with different update frequencies of news Web sites, the classification methodology, the data model for storing news articles, measurements on the data retrieved and finally results of classification of this type of...

Towards Digital Library Mediation for Web Services

Web services and related technologies are a ubiquitous topic within the IT community. Due to their flexible system composition characteristics these technologies can be considered a promising building block for the dynamic networking of people and organizations in our increasingly globalized and quickly changing economies. With the growing number of Web services we are in need of elaborate mech...