Decomate: Unified Access to Globally Distributed Libraries
نویسندگان
چکیده
The Decomate project enables mutual access to heterogeneous, distributed, and pooled digital resources of consortium members. Using a mediator architecture with a Broker and several back-end servers, a scalable and flexible system has been developed that is going in production in major European universities. Ongoing work focuses on access improvements using graphical browsing and thesaurus integration.
منابع مشابه
DECOMATE - II LIB - 5672 / B Developing the European Digital Library for Economics
This document describes the various modules that provide the Advanced Access facilities to the Decomate-II system. It contains the argumentation for the design and the implementation intentions as far as currently can be decided.
متن کاملEDEL / a European Digital Library for Economics
With mounting pressures on libraries caused by the ever-expanding range and number of information sources in print and electronic format, the attractions of library co-operation are clear. Areas for co-operation may be in sharing resources or technical expertise or in working together to obtain favourable licensing or purchasing conditions. Many library consortia are based at national or region...
متن کاملNCSTRL: Design and deployment of a globally distributed digital library
he World Wide Web provides unprecedented access to globally distributed content. The extent and uniform accessibility of the Web has proven beneficial for research, education, commerce, entertainment, and numerous other uses. Ironically, the fact that the Web is an information space without boundaries has also proven to be its biggest flaw. Key aspects of libraries such as selectivity of conten...
متن کاملConcepts for Mobile Information Visualization: The MOVI-Project
Today’s world wide distributed information systems, like, e.g., the World Wide Web, enable the homogeneous, simple access to all kinds of globally distributed scientific data (images, graphics, simulation results, etc.) and services. At the same time, wireless data communication enables location independent data access from mobile computing systems. An interesting challenge is the generalizatio...
متن کاملنابرابریهای فضایی دسترسی به کتابخانههای عمومی در کشور
Purpose: As the world rapidly moves into the new era of information and wisdom, the needs of human beings to use books and libraries continue to grow. With this in mind, in addition to increasing public library services, it's important for planners to distribute library facilities equitably across the country. In this paper we will study the distribution of public libraries in the Provinces of ...
متن کامل