Nowadays in digital information environments, various types of resources coexist with heterogeneous metadata formats and standards and efforts have been made to achieve interoperability in order to use multiple metadata standards and reuse metadata records by developing strategies, which range from simple mappings among metadata elements to complex structural modeling. Dealing with information ...

The Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS) was established in 1996 to collect, preserve and encouraging the reuse of digital resources created during scholarly research in the arts and humanities. The AHDS is now responsible for the preservation of over 3,000 digital resources and holds a wide range of data types, from plain text and image files to datasets (spreadsheets, databases, statistica...

For many years, Academic Library’s Application at Indonesian Higher Education Institutions operates in a “stand-alone” mode. This causes a great loss of opportunity to share libraries resources that tend to be limited in each library. University of Indonesia’s libraries are the miniature of such a kind. University of Indonesia has more than one library that distributed in several faculties and ...

The networked information environment comprising digital libraries, digital collections, and digital repositories increase people’s expectations for information access. Specifically, users anticipate better search capabilities across these networked information resources and the metadata records associated with the resources. The opportunities also exist for improved information exchange or int...

Traditional Digital Libraries require human editorial control over the lifecycles of digital objects contained therein. This imposes an inherent (human) overhead on the maintenance of these digital libraries, which becomes unwieldy once the number of important information units in the digital library becomes too large. A revised framework is needed for digital libraries that takes the onus off ...

digital preservation refers to an important aspect that most iranian digital library initiatives lack. this component is security. while a digital library may be misconceived as an information supply space without a physical form, the same security concerns in force for operation of physical library are valid. unlike the analog materials, all digital copies of digital materials are original. a ...

The University of Michigan Digital Library is a large scale confederation of software agents providing li brary content and services to users and each other within a distributed network environment Alloca tion of resources and activities to the various agents is determined through a market based negotiation process where agents tender o ers to buy or sell ser vices basic resources and other inf...

The University of Michigan Digital Library is a large-scale confederation of software agents, providing library content and services to users and each other within a distributed network environment. Allocation of resources and activities to the various agents is determined through a market-based negotiation process, where agents tender ooers to buy or sell services , basic resources, and other ...