Digital library research has developed over the past decade, but little has been done on the identification of evaluation criteria, especially from users' perspectives. This article identifies users' criteria and applies them to the evaluation of existing digital libraries. Forty-eight subjects were instructed to develop and justify a set of essential criteria for the evaluation of digital libr...

This paper presents REAP, a system for rights management in digital libraries. REAP is aimed at demonstrating that intellectual property can be published in the Internet by digital libraries in accordance with copyright laws. The article proposes an architecture/paradigm for managing rights when publishing information through Digital Libraries involving digital rights management. Based on this ...

(2012) "End user development of digital collection mash‐ups: A survey to assess the suitability of current infrastructure", Mash‐ups, web applications that combine data from multiple sources to create a new service, have become common fixtures on libraries' web sites. Many libraries feature mash‐ups that display branch information on a Google map or bring in Amazon book cover images into the ca...

As current digital libraries are becoming more complex, the facilities provided by them will increase and the difficulty of learning associated with the complexity of using these facilities will also increase. In order to produce usable and useful interactive systems, designers need to ensure that good design features are incorporated into the systems, taking into consideration end-users' needs...

Traditional libraries will evolve to digital libraries which are clearly superior at: Dissemination, sharing, linking, storing, and information variety. Therefore, one can say that electronic libraries have specific needs in terms of content, services and long-term preservation. In contrast, digital libraries suffer from several inherent constraints: storage limitation, performance, relevancy, ...

Digital Libraries will be one of the main ways to access structured information through the Internet. Information related to resources or objects is known as metadata. Several metadata models have been proposed; however, the model proposed by the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) [1] has demonstrated great utility in digital libraries. The simplicity and generality of DCMI has facilitated ...

Digital libraries are more than just web sites or stores of information. Designers have problems designing good web sites, and it would be reasonable to anticipate that they will have problems creating good digital libraries via the web. The immediate research challenge is to ensure that designers do things well from the start. Remedial work correcting problems can be both time-consuming and ex...