Publication processes within Digital Libraries are seldom supported by a workflow management system (Wfms). Publication workflows are often described within the application logic due to its data dependency — publication processes are data-driven. Though, documents and the processes should not be treated independently of each other. Rather, processes should dynamically react to changes of docume...

Diffusing knowledge management practices within an organization encourages and facilitates reuse of the institution's knowledge commodity. Following knowledge management practices, the Eskind Biomedical Library (EBL) has created a Digital Library that uses a holistic approach for integration of information and skills to best represent both explicit and tacit knowledge inherent in libraries. EBL...

The Management Review and Analysis Program (MRAP), designed, tested, and operated by the Association of Research Libraries' Office of University Library Management Studies (OMS), is an assisted self-study strategy intended for use by large academic and research libraries. The program assists libraries in reviewing and analyzing their current management policies and practices, and provides guide...

In this paper, service for data retrieval from existing library management system is described. This service intermediates between library management system which provides data and system which requires that data. The main idea is that this service should support various protocols for data retrieval. Also, this service should be flexible for future update and simple enough for integration into ...

This paper presents a new methodology for design-by-features. After a brief background study of designby-features, a new architecture with a feature library, feature-based model, feature library management and feature-based model management is introduced. A standard feature class is defined for the feature library. Automatic feature-based model management covering interactive functions, identif...

Using electromagnetic coupling, an RFID tag can get power supplier by a reader and communicate with it for data exchange. Because the RFID system enables non-contact communication, various services and applications including the management of a library catalogue are possible. However, the system is affected easily by neighboring environment and the resonant frequency, thus the communication per...

Many institutions operating in the cultural heritage domain have already made their content accessible via the Internet. However, when organizations want to realize projects that integrate content from various institutions, they face the problem of how to make this content accessible in a coherent way. Since metadata plays a key role in such scenarios, a Metadata Management system that can hand...